Perhaps one of the best known operations of the Mossad was the covert operation known as ‘Wrath of God’. It happened in 1972 in Germany.
During the 1972 Olympics in Munich at 4 a.m. on September 5, eight armed men belonging to the Palestinian extremist group Black September jumped a two-meter fence and silently walked towards the apartments of the Israeli athletes in the Olympic stadium. Village in Munich, which they took hostage.
To free the kidnapped athletes, the attackers demanded the release of more than 200 Palestinian prisoners captured by Israel.
To commemorate the bloody incident, Steven Spielberg directed the film Munich, the plot of which follows a secret Mossad team tasked with responsible for the attack that kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes.
In the months that followed, many members of the Black September group who took part in organizing the Munich massacre were murdered. Israeli intelligence is believed to have been behind the killings.
The Mossad is Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, although its official name is the Institute of Intelligence and Special Operations. It is responsible for intelligence gathering, espionage and conducting counter-terrorism activities worldwide.
Mossad means institution in Hebrew and is responsible for human intelligence gathering, covert action and counter-terrorism.
It was founded in 1949 by then Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who was interested in the organization that would ensure the survival of the emerging state of Israel, against the Palestinian resistance and its Arab allies and when it was still fighting for international recognition .
Acclaimed by many, he is also recognized for his ‘effective and brutal’ operations.
Interviewed by the Argentinian newspaper La Nación, udi levy, As a member of Israeli intelligence, he says his job has been to convince the security services of the desirability of going after the money instead of focusing on killing the members of the terrorist groups. In this regard, he said so Ecuador has become a ‘narco-terrorism focus’ country because of the US security strategy in Colombia.
espionage and counter-terrorism
According to Marc Vendrell, academic director of the LISA Institute (a training institution for Security, Intelligence, Cybersecurity, International Relations, Emergencies and Self-Defense), the Mossad is an intelligence organization whose agents have been responsible for acts of espionage, counter-terrorism and most daring and shocking murders ever committed.
The selection and training process for Mossad agents is rigorous and very demanding. Potential candidates must undergo a series of physical, mental and emotional tests to assess their suitability. Those who are selected undergo intensive training in a wide range of skills, including multilingual proficiency, combat techniques, infiltration skills and covert communication techniques.
Vendrell also recalls that one of his most famous surgeries was the “Operation Garibaldi”in which Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi high command, was kidnapped in Argentina and brought to justice.
The Mossad uses a variety of sophisticated techniques to obtain information, including the human intelligence gathering, cyber espionage, the use of undercover agents, and cooperation with other intelligence agencies, explains Vendrell about the Israeli agency. (JO)
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