Summary of Ronald Payne's Mossad

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Mossad is the most intriguing intelligence service. It operates on behalf of a country that is surrounded by enemy states, and its citizens are constantly threatened by war. Nevertheless, they are the best intelligence service in the world.
#2 The CIA may have more technical resources, but no intelligence service is more feared than Mossad. The popular view of its activities in the outside world is of an efficient, cunning and dreadnought secret service.
#3 Mossad, the Israeli secret service, has been in operation for more than 60 years. It has carried out many missions, from capturing Nazi war criminals to helping win wars. It has also irritated European governments and the US administration by flouting the accepted rules of international behavior.
#4 The reputation of Israeli intelligence was once legendary. But as the country’s focus shifted from the Egyptians to the Palestinians and terrorism, some elements turned to counter-terrorism in order to combat enemies at home and abroad.

Sujets

• Israel
• Intelligence
• Espionage
• Political Science

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 16 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822535121
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Ronald Payne's Mossad
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Mossad is the most intriguing intelligence service. It operates on behalf of a country that is surrounded by enemy states, and its citizens are constantly threatened by war. Nevertheless, they are the best intelligence service in the world.

#2

The CIA may have more technical resources, but no intelligence service is more feared than Mossad. The popular view of its activities in the outside world is of an efficient, cunning and dreadnought secret service.

#3

Mossad, the Israeli secret service, has been in operation for more than 60 years. It has carried out many missions, from capturing Nazi war criminals to helping win wars. It has also irritated European governments and the US administration by flouting the accepted rules of international behavior.

#4

The reputation of Israeli intelligence was once legendary. But as the country’s focus shifted from the Egyptians to the Palestinians and terrorism, some elements turned to counter-terrorism in order to combat enemies at home and abroad.

#5

The Israeli intelligence service, Mossad, was tasked with fighting terrorism, and they were constantly being stretched to cover all of Palestine, Lebanon, and Jordan. They were also required to probe the international contacts of the Palestinian movements and find out where their arms came from and who organized their training.

#6

Israeli intelligence was formed during troubled times and confused events. During the first forty years of Mossad’s history, admiration for its style changed to suspicion about its methods.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Israel is a nation that thrived on covert operations and espionage. Its first leaders had been forced to enter this occult world by circumstance, and it was only natural that the new state would become a spyocracy.

#2

The secret services were influenced by British example. The first modern intelligence agency was created in Britain in 1909. Its task was to obtain foreigners’ secrets and to protect those of its own government. The great powers of old Europe set up similar bureaucracies of espionage.

#3

The birth of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, was the result of a meeting in Tel Aviv on 30 June 1948 to lay the foundations of the Israeli intelligence community. The IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, issued an official order setting up a subdivision of the operations branch of its general staff.

#4

The head of Israel’s military intelligence service, Colonel Isser Be’eri, was arrested and charged with murder after the secret hearings. The only defense he put forward was that his position as head of the service gave him the right to act outside the law.

#5

The life of Israel’s secret service, Shin Bet, began with brutality and a clash of wills between its leader, who favored harsh methods, and the authority of the state represented by Ben-Gurion.

#6

The Israeli military intelligence service, Aman, was formed in 1950. It was a descendant of the Haganah underground movement, and its task was to gather intelligence from abroad and run special operations. Its director was Reuben Shiloach, who was directly responsible to the prime minister.

#7

The Israeli government created Mossad, the Institute, to handle all foreign intelligence, and Reshud, the Israeli equivalent of the Special Branch, to handle police work and surveillance. The original directive complicated matters by specifying that in the field of special operations, Aman was in charge of nominating the targets and planning operations that had to be approved by Mossad.

#8

Isser Harel, the first chairman of Mossad, was quick to learn. He had been chosen in 1948 to crush Irgun Zvi Leumi, the extremist Jewish group in conflict with Haganah, by trying to land a load of weapons on a Tel Aviv beach from the ship Altalena.

#9

Harel was a hard man with cold eyes and overweening ambition. He built Mossad in his own image, and gradually gathered supreme power over one of the most devoted intelligence communities in the world.