THE MOSSAD This is an uncorrected book proof made available in confidence to selected persons for specific review purpose and is not for sale or other distribution. Anyone selling or distributing this proof copy will be responsible for any resultant claims relating to any alleged omissions, errors, libel, breach of copyright, privacy rights or otherwise. Any copying, reprinting, sale or other unauthorised distribution or use of this proof copy without the consent of the publisher will be a direct infringement of the publisher’s exclusive rights and those involved liable in law accordingly. A Vintage book Published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd Level 3, 100 Pacific Highway, North Sydney NSW 2060 www.randomhouse.com.au First published in Israel by Yedioth Ahronoth in 2010 First published in Australia by Vintage in 2012 Copyright © Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal 2012 The moral right of the author has been asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted by any person or entity, including internet search engines or retailers, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying (except under the statutory exceptions provisions of the Australian Copyright Act 1968), recording, scanning or by any information storage and retrieval system without the prior written permission of Random House Australia. Addresses for companies within the Random House Group can be found at www.randomhouse.com.au/offices National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Entry to be updated for publication Cover design by Blue Cork Designs Printed in Australia by Griffin Press, an accredited ISO AS/NZS 14001:2004 Environmental Management System printer Random House Australia uses papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products and made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. Dedication TK Epigraph TK EPIGRAPH CREDIT TK CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Epigraph Introduction: Alone in the Lion’s Den 1. King of Shadows 2. Funerals in Tehran 3. A Hanging in Bagdhad 4. A Soviet Mole and a Body at Sea 5. “Oh, That? It’s Khrushchev’s Speech …” 6. “Bring Eichmann Dead or Alive!” 7. Where Is Yossele? 8. A Nazi Hero at the Service of the Mossad 9. Our Man in Damascus 10. “I Want a MiG-21!” 11. Those Who’ll Never Forge 12. The Quest for the Red Prince 13. The Syrian Virgins 14. “Today We’ll Be at War!” 15. A Honey Trap for the Atom Spy 16. Saddam’s Supergun 17. Fiasco in Amman 18. From North Korea with Love 19. Love and Death in the Afternoon 20. The Cameras Were Rolling 21. From the Land of the Queen of Sheba Epilogue: War with Iran? Bibliography and Sources Acknowledgments Join the Conversation INTRODUCTION: ALONE, IN THE LION’S DEN On November 12, 2011, a tremendous explosion destroyed a secret missile base close to Tehran, killing seventeen Revolutionary Guards and reducing dozens of missiles to a heap of charred iron. General Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, the “father” of the Shehab long-range missiles, and the man in charge of Iran’s missile program, was killed in the explosion. But the secret target of the bombing was not Moghaddam. It was a solid-fuel rocket engine, able to carry a nuclear missile more than 6,000 miles across the globe, from Iran’s underground silos to the U.S. mainland. The new missile planned by Iran’s leaders was to bring America’s major cities to their knees and transform Iran into a dominant world power. The November explosion delayed the project by several months. Even though the target of the new long-range missile was America, the explosions that destroyed the Iranian base were probably set by the Israeli Secret Service, the Mossad. Since its inception more than sixty years ago, the Mossad has served fearlessly and secretly against the dangers threatening Israel and the West. And more so than ever before, the Mossad’s intelligence gathering and operations affect American security abroad and at home. Right now, according to foreign sources, the Mossad is challenging the blunt, explicit promise of the Iranian leadership to obliterate Israel from the map. Waging a stubborn shadow war against Iran by sabotaging nuclear facilities, assassinating scientists, supplying plants with faulty equipment and raw materials via bogus companies, organizing desertions of high-ranking military officers and major figures in nuclear research, introducing ferocious viruses into Iran’s computer systems, the Mossad allegedly is fighting the threat of a nuclear- armed Iran, and what that would mean for the United States and the rest of the world. While the Mossad has delayed the Iranian nuclear bomb by several years, their covert battle is reaching its peak, before last-resort measures—a military strike—are employed.