SPY REGISTER / THE ARCHIVE
Operations, double lives, stolen secrets and the people behind them.
Israel’s intelligence unit gained the storage to keep intercepted calls on a vast scale. Microsoft’s partial cutoff exposed the commercial machinery behind the surveillance.
Twenty-one years after the Egyptian bomb plot, America’s secretary of state brought it up in the Oval Office as a reason to distrust a new arrangement.
AMAN’s October 5, 1973 assessment described emergency deployments and Soviet evacuations, then assigned a low probability to an Egyptian attack. The invasion began the following afternoon.
Russian voices betrayed the Soviet pilots flying from Egypt. Israeli intelligence then helped prepare a fighter ambush over the Suez front.
A Soviet radar was worth taking home intact. In December 1969, Israeli commandos dismantled it in the dark and discovered their prize was dangerously heavy.
