Le Aliyah Beth (Reszut)
The roots go back to 1940, when Eliah Golombo and Shaul Avigur founded Shai, a secret intelligence service for protecting Haganah troops against the British in British Palestine. 1948 sovereign Israel was created and the Mossad followed in the same year. It was founded by the prime minister David Ben-Gurion and I.Harel was named the memun (head of Mossad).Although, the Mossad isn't a huge institution, it developed a very dense and sophisticated networks all over the world composed mainly of Jewish people. Thus, even the low-staffed Mossad is able to operate throughout the world. The efficiency of their work became the model for many other services. Most known actions were the capturing of Adolf Eichman in 1960, dominating win in the Six days war, the hunt for the Munich Olympic Games terrorist of 1972, involvement in the hijack in Entebbe, the intelligence against Syria resulting into a win on the Golan heights in 1973 and delivering the complete Mirage blueprints.
The head, memun, is directly commanded by the prime minister. The inner organization is very similar to that one of the BND. The strategy of deploying agents is also different to that used by the CIA. The Mossad mainly concentrates on placing few high-ranked agents delivering top information directly from the source (see E.Cohen)
Mossad is divided into
- Operational
- Intelligence
- Industry espionage and inner security
- Special departments for desinformation and covert actions
- Rear sections (personnel, advocate, educational, etc.)
The Mossad is renown mainly for their analytic skills; though their hard-line actions are not so popular.
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