Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, is known as a
fearsome organization, punching way above its weight
in the world of espionage. Some scandalous operations
have happened, tarnishing the agency's reputation
over the years.

10.... NUMEC.


In the 1960s, the Nuclear Materials and Equipment
Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, Pennsylvania,
which produced nuclear material, was the town’s
largest employer. When it closed its doors in 1983, the
federal government declared that several nearby streets
were contaminated with radiation.
To make matters worse, analysts determined that
hundreds of pounds of highly enriched, weapons-grade
uranium had gone missing from the plant in the
1960s. Some people suspect that the uranium is buried
somewhere in the town, although there’s evidence that
Mossad might have stolen the material.
NUMEC founder Zalman Shapiro was known to have
connections within the Israeli intelligence community
and government. The Ohio-born son of a rabbi, he was
extremely affected by the death of relatives during the
Holocaust and was a big supporter of the Jewish state.
Mossad was known to have conducted covert operations
to acquire nuclear material, including one alleged open-
water transfer.
When the US Atomic Energy Commission realized that
90 kilograms (200 lb) of uranium had disappeared
without explanation in 1965, US intelligence agencies
became convinced that it had been illicitly transported to
Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor.
Despite the ongoing investigation, another 180
kilograms (400 lb) went missing during the 1960s,
possibly through an arrangement with a front company
called “ISORAD,” which was founded by Shapiro in
partnership with the Israeli government.
While ISORAD was ostensibly researching food
pasteurization, many believe that it was used to
streamline the shipment of nuclear material to Israel.
Shapiro has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence and
was never convicted of a crime.

9....Arms Sell To Iran And The Contras


During the Shah’s reign, Israel sold arms to Iran. But
this arrangement came to an end when diplomatic ties
and oil exports to Israel were cut off after the Islamic
Revolution. Nevertheless, Israel resumed selling arms to
Iran covertly when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980.
Even though the two countries were technically enemies,
Iran desperately needed arms, Israel had surplus arms to
sell and needed hard currency, and both hated Saddam
Hussein. According to the memoirs of Zbigniew
Brzezinski, who was US National Security Adviser to
President Jimmy Carter, the Carter administration was
aware of the arrangement and turned a blind eye despite
the trade embargo on Iran.
In 1981, a plane carrying arms from Israel to Iran
crashed in the Soviet Union near the Turkish border.
Evidence that Israel was supplying Iran with weapons
increased when British newspaper The Observer obtained
documents from Mossad-linked arms dealer Yaakov
Nimrodi, who had close ties with the Iranian military
before the revolution. It’s unknown whether the US,
Israel, or Iran first proposed the secret arrangement .
There was also a Mossad operation called “Tipped
Kettle ” which seized arms from the Palestinian
Liberation Organization (PLO) and sold those arms to
the contras in Nicaragua in 1983 and 1984. Supported
by the CIA and funded by the US Congress, the
shipments supposedly delivered 6,000 weapons in 1983
alone. Journalists reported seeing the captured PLO
artillery, antitank weapons, and heavy machine guns
being used in Nicaragua, which looked somewhat
incongruous due to the desert camouflage paint jobs and
Russian lettering.

8....Passport Scandals

In 2010, an international scandal erupted when it was
discovered that Mossad had used three forged Australian
passports to enter Dubai and assassinate Hamas leader
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. Former Mossad case officer
Victor Ostrovsky told ABC radio that it was a common
practice: “You can tell whatever stories you want. It
doesn’t take much of an accent to be an Australian or
New Zealander, or an Englishman for that matter. And
I know people had been under Australian cover not
once [but] quite a few times. So why not use it
[again]?”
Australia warned Israel that such behavior would
compromise good relations between the countries.
Britain, Ireland, France, and Germany were also
furious that people linked to the assassination had been
carrying travel documents from their countries.
According to Ostrovsky, Mossad spends a great deal of
money on a research department that falsifies travel
documents, with factories churning out these documents
based on blank or stolen passports from Western
countries. This allows Mossad agents to remain
undetected in Arab countries where an Israeli passport
would attract scrutiny.
Mossad denies Ostrovsky’s claims, although that’s
hardly surprising. In 2011, a related scandal emerged.
Ostrovsky warned six British-Israeli dual citizens who
had their UK passports stolen and used by Mossad that
they shouldn’t leave their homes or travel abroad
because Hamas might target them, either accidentally or
to send a message.


7....Operation Plumbat


Together with the alleged NUMEC theft, Israel’s
nuclear program was bolstered by Mossad’s nuclear
piracy operations, both real and faked. In the most
notorious incident, Mossad set up a Liberian front
company to purchase a tramp ocean freighter which
they renamed the Scheersberg A .
Then they enlisted a West German official at a
petrochemical company to help them purchase $3.7
million of yellowcake from the Belgian company Union
Miniere, which had mined the uranium several years
earlier in Shinkolobwe in the Congo and was looking
to get rid of it.
A contract was set up to have the shipment delivered to
an Italian paint company for processing. In November
1968, the Scheersberg A was sent to Antwerp where the
uranium was placed in barrels labeled “Plumbat,”
referring to a harmless lead product. The Spanish crew
of the ship was fired and replaced with Mossad agents
with forged passports.
The ship was ostensibly headed to Genoa, but it never
arrived. Instead, the ship rendezvoused with an Israeli
freighter and two gunboats off the coast of Crete. The
uranium was transferred to the waiting ships and taken
to Haifa. Then the Scheersberg A went to Turkey,
docking with no cargo and several pages ripped from its
log. The Italian company was told to cancel their order
as the cargo had disappeared without explanation,
which they assumed meant piracy or hijacking. It
wasn't until the 1970s that the truth was revealed.
According to Rolling Stone and other sources, Mossad
also engaged in nuclear piracy and theft aimed at
Western powers. However, two operations occurred with
the cooperation of the French and West German
governments.
In one 1968 incident, a commando unit used tear gas
to subdue the driver of a French truck transporting
uranium. The material was smuggled to military bases
in Negev, a desert region in Israel. Meanwhile, an
inquiry in the US found that at least 1 ton of uranium
and plutonium had gone missing between the 1950s
and 1970s, including a significant amount from a
plant in Irvine, Tennessee.

6....Mordechai Vanunu's Honeytrap
Whistleblower scientist Mordechai Vanunu, a disgruntled technician at the Dimona nuclear complex, planned to release information on Israel’s nuclear program to British newspaper The Sunday Times. Placed in a safe house, Vanunu was told to be careful. But he ran afoul of Mossad agent Cheryl Hanin, who claimed to be an American tourist named “Cindy.” To his credit, Vanunu asked if she was a Mossad agent, but she feigned ignorance of the organization. Vanunu would later explain: “It wasn’t in a bar, it was in the street. I was crossing the road and this woman was crossing the road and we began to talk. [ . . . ] I didn’t fall in love with her, but I thought things could continue. Initially, I told her she was a Mossad agent, but afterward, I forgot about it.” He fell for her, but she refused to sleep with him in London, telling him that they should do it at her sister’s place in Rome. He went with her to Italy, where he was arrested by Mossad and placed on a freighter bound for Israel. Vanunu spent 18 years behind bars. Initially, he believed that “Cindy” was also a victim until he finally realized the truth about three days into his slow sea journey to imprisonment. Newspaper executives blamed the success of the trap on Vanunu’s sexual status as a 31-old-virgin who was “desperate to get laid.”

5....Lillehammer
Following the brutal attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September, Mossad was gunning for revenge. They initiated “Operation Wrath of God” in retaliation, beginning with the shooting of Palestinian translator Wael Zwaiter in Rome and the car bombing of Mahmoud Hamshari, alleged head of Black September, in Paris. Operation Wrath of God had a flavor of righteous retribution, although some people claim that Zwaiter had no links to the terrorist organization or the attacks. But things really took a turn south with the murder of Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway. Mossad had received information that Ali Hassan Salameh, the mastermind of the Munich attacks, was in Norway. This was actually counterintelligence sent by Salameh to throw the Israelis off his trail. Mossad tracked down the man they believed to be Salameh, but it was really Bouchiki, who had an unfortunate facial resemblance to Salameh. Mossad team leader Mike Harari was inexperienced and overconfident. The final misidentification of Bouchiki as Salameh was made by Kemal Benamane, an Algerian who worked as a courier for Black September until he became a double agent for Mossad . Bouchiki was shot dead as he walked home from work, but things quickly spiraled out of control. Lillehammer hadn’t seen a murder in 40 years. The arrival of a dozen foreigners in the sleepy town had already been noticed by residents and the police, so officers were nearby when Bouchiki was killed. While Harari and some of the team escaped, six operatives were arrested by Norwegian police and put on trial for murder. During the trial, the agents made full confessions that revealed embarrassing details about Mossad’s clandestine activities and assassination methods. In the aftermath, Mossad abandoned its entire European network of safe houses, drop boxes, and secret phone numbers.

4...Salameh Project

Five years after the Lillehammer disaster, Mossad once again decided to pursue Ali Hassan Salameh. However, the Israelis didn’t know that Salameh had become a CIA asset in the intervening years. The CIA hoped to use his status and connections in various PLO organizations to prevent attacks on Americans. Allegedly, this arrangement had many benefits for the Americans, including saving the life of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Salameh refused to take money for his services, insisting that he only wanted to promote better relations between the Americans and the Palestinians. But he did allow the CIA to pay for his expensive honeymoon with his Hungarian-Lebanese bride (and 1971 “Miss Universe”) Georgina Rizk. Mossad did ask the CIA about their relationship with Salameh. To allay Israel’s suspicions, the CIA staunchly denied having any relationship with the terrorist, so Mossad assumed they were good to go. In 1978, operative Erika Chambers was sent to Beirut to look for Salameh. She pretended to be an eccentric English spinster working at a charity that took care of Palestinian children. Soon, other Mossad agents located the terrorist and learned his routine. After marrying Rizk, Salameh had gotten into a pattern of regularly traveling between PLO headquarters, the home of his first wife and two children, and Rizk’s apartment. The Israelis rented a Volkswagen, loaded it with explosives, and parked it on one of Salameh’s usual travel routes. As Salameh’s Chevrolet passed the Volkswagen, the explosives were set off by radio transmitter. Nine people perished in the blast, along with Salameh and his bodyguards who were following in a Land Rover. One eyewitness described the scene: “It was like hell . There was a flash, then a big bang. It was incredible. I’d never seen anything like it before, not even in Beirut. It was as if the whole city was on fire. So many dead people, burned cars, and young bodies littering the street. Then I saw Hassan Salameh getting out of a car and falling on the ground. The people told me who he was.”

3....Beirut Bombing

In 1983, over 240 American servicemen were killed at the US Marine barracks in Beirut in a truck bomb attack by a radical Shia terrorist group. According to former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky, Mossad had specific details from an informant that Hezbollah was loading a truck with explosives for the attack, but Mossad director Nahum Admoni deliberately withheld the information from American intelligence. The Israelis may have hoped that such an attack would irrevocably damage US-Arab relations. Supposedly, Admoni told his men: “We are not here to defend the Americans. They’re a big country. Just send them the normal information.” This referred to the regular Mossad messages of potential danger from Lebanon that were likely ignored. On the other hand, security at the base was extremely lax, and constant warnings with no attacks had made the US forces complacent. Ostrovsky’s account seemed to be credible because he had in-depth knowledge of Mossad personnel names, codes, and secure locations. Paradoxically, the Israeli government sparked more interest in his book By Way of Deception by trying to have it banned. However, questions remain about the true reasons for his departure from Mossad. Ostrovsky said that he was made a scapegoat in an intelligence failure that embarrassed the Israelis , but he may just be a resentful former employee. He also lost credibility for his lurid and unlikely claims, such as the Mossad training facility at Glilot hosting orgies involving female Israeli soldiers.

2....Mehdi Ben-Barka


Once the tutor of Morocco’s King Hassan, Mehdi
Ben-Barka turned against the government in the 1950s,
becoming a prominent third-world political figure
known around the world as the founder of the
Moroccan Socialist Party. Though Ben-Barka lived in
exile in Geneva, King Hassan decided to eliminate him.
Hassan assigned the task to his interior minister
General Muhammad Oufkir, who was close friends with
Mossad director Meir Amit. Oufkir asked Amit for
assistance in the assassination. Amit agreed, hoping to
prevent a rift with Morocco that might endanger Jews
living in that country. Israel also wanted to cultivate
the distant, pro-Western Arab country as an ally and
source of intelligence.
Mossad’s role was to locate Ben-Barka and then set a
trap for him. They discovered that he had subscriptions
to a number of foreign magazines delivered to a kiosk in
Geneva. Occasionally, Ben-Barka went to pick up the
magazines personally. Mossad gave the Moroccans the
address.
But Morocco wanted more. Mossad was asked to
provide the Moroccan agents with a Paris safe house,
camouflage, makeup, and fake passports. Morocco also
wanted Mossad to follow the target.
But Ben-Barka had connections with Mossad and
admired Israel, which made Mossad and the Israeli
government reluctant to get so involved. They considered
stalling or even warning Ben-Barka about the
imminent attack. But the Moroccans moved ahead with
the operation and pressured Mossad into providing
security for Moroccan intelligence operative Ahmad
Dlimi in Paris.
Ben-Barka was lured to a cafe for a meeting with a
French journalist, which was actually a Moroccan trap
dreamed up by Mossad. Ben-Barka was intercepted by
mercenaries from French intelligence who had been
recruited by the Moroccans.
He was taken to an apartment and tortured for hours
until the Moroccans accidentally drowned him in a
bathtub. According to recent research by Israeli
journalists, Dlimi then called Mossad in a panic.
Mossad sent a team to help bury the body and sprinkle
the area with a chemical powder designed to react with
water and consume the remains. Heavy rain fell soon
afterward.


1....Khaled Mashal

Despite a new peace agreement between Israel and
Jordan at the time, members of the Kidon Unit of
Mossad arrived in Jordan in September 1997 to
assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. This was in
retaliation for a Hamas attack on a Jerusalem market in
July, where two suicide bombers killed 16 Israelis and
wounded 169 others. Newly elected Benjamin
Netanyahu wanted the operation to be covert, so a
Mossad scientist suggested the use of a new poison that
would kill on contact but remain undetectable in an
autopsy.
The Mossad agents posed as tourists in Amman, with
operatives Barry Beads and Sean Kendall carrying
forged Canadian passports. They planned to wait for
Mashal to arrive in his SUV and then poison him as he
walked toward his house in the Shamiah Center. The
agents intended to open a shaken can of Coke, distract
Mashal with the exploding cola, spray his neck with
the poison from an aerosol can, and then flee the
crowded scene in a getaway car.
However, as the assassins approached Mashal, his
daughter jumped out of the SUV. Immediately, both
Mashal and the SUV driver chased after her. The team
leader tried to signal Beads and Kendall to abort the
mission, but they didn’t see him. When they got close
to Mashal, Kendall opened the can of Coke, but
nothing came out. Beads tried to spray Mashal
anyway, but the driver saw the attack and hit Beads
with a newspaper. Beads only got a couple of drops of
poison on Mashal’s ear before Mashal ran away.
In more bungled getaway action, Beads and Kendall
were eventually arrested by Jordanian police. When the
truth came out, there was an immediate uproar over the
assassination attempt, causing massive embarrassment
for both the Israeli and Jordanian governments that
strained their relations. King Hussein threatened to jail
the Mossad agents unless Netanyahu coughed up the
antidote to the poison, which he did.
In the end, Israel was forced to release imprisoned
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in return for the
release of Beads and Kendall, who were delivered to the
Canadian embassy before returning to Israel. Even the
Canadians were angry because they didn’t appreciate
Mossad agents using forged Canadian passports.

Cc: Lasticlala
http://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-controversial-mossad-operations/

Jst imagine... Dis people ar very wicked. Mossad kor moshood ni.

Goahead:
2....Mehdi Ben-Barka


Once the tutor of Morocco’s King Hassan, Mehdi
Ben-Barka turned against the government in the 1950s,
becoming a prominent third-world political figure
known around the world as the founder of the
Moroccan Socialist Party. Though Ben-Barka lived in
exile in Geneva, King Hassan decided to eliminate him.
Hassan assigned the task to his interior minister
General Muhammad Oufkir, who was close friends with
Mossad director Meir Amit. Oufkir asked Amit for
assistance in the assassination. Amit agreed, hoping to
prevent a rift with Morocco that might endanger Jews
living in that country. Israel also wanted to cultivate
the distant, pro-Western Arab country as an ally and
source of intelligence.
Mossad’s role was to locate Ben-Barka and then set a
trap for him. They discovered that he had subscriptions
to a number of foreign magazines delivered to a kiosk in
Geneva. Occasionally, Ben-Barka went to pick up the
magazines personally. Mossad gave the Moroccans the
address.
But Morocco wanted more. Mossad was asked to
provide the Moroccan agents with a Paris safe house,
camouflage, makeup, and fake passports. Morocco also
wanted Mossad to follow the target.
But Ben-Barka had connections with Mossad and
admired Israel, which made Mossad and the Israeli
government reluctant to get so involved. They considered
stalling or even warning Ben-Barka about the
imminent attack. But the Moroccans moved ahead with
the operation and pressured Mossad into providing
security for Moroccan intelligence operative Ahmad
Dlimi in Paris.
Ben-Barka was lured to a cafe for a meeting with a
French journalist, which was actually a Moroccan trap
dreamed up by Mossad. Ben-Barka was intercepted by
mercenaries from French intelligence who had been
recruited by the Moroccans.
He was taken to an apartment and tortured for hours
until the Moroccans accidentally drowned him in a
bathtub. According to recent research by Israeli
journalists, Dlimi then called Mossad in a panic.
Mossad sent a team to help bury the body and sprinkle
the area with a chemical powder designed to react with
water and consume the remains. Heavy rain fell soon
afterward.


1....Khaled Mashal

Despite a new peace agreement between Israel and
Jordan at the time, members of the Kidon Unit of
Mossad arrived in Jordan in September 1997 to
assassinate Hamas leader Khaled Mashal. This was in
retaliation for a Hamas attack on a Jerusalem market in
July, where two suicide bombers killed 16 Israelis and
wounded 169 others. Newly elected Benjamin
Netanyahu wanted the operation to be covert, so a
Mossad scientist suggested the use of a new poison that
would kill on contact but remain undetectable in an
autopsy.
The Mossad agents posed as tourists in Amman, with
operatives Barry Beads and Sean Kendall carrying
forged Canadian passports. They planned to wait for
Mashal to arrive in his SUV and then poison him as he
walked toward his house in the Shamiah Center. The
agents intended to open a shaken can of Coke, distract
Mashal with the exploding cola, spray his neck with
the poison from an aerosol can, and then flee the
crowded scene in a getaway car.
However, as the assassins approached Mashal, his
daughter jumped out of the SUV. Immediately, both
Mashal and the SUV driver chased after her. The team
leader tried to signal Beads and Kendall to abort the
mission, but they didn’t see him. When they got close
to Mashal, Kendall opened the can of Coke, but
nothing came out. Beads tried to spray Mashal
anyway, but the driver saw the attack and hit Beads
with a newspaper. Beads only got a couple of drops of
poison on Mashal’s ear before Mashal ran away.
In more bungled getaway action, Beads and Kendall
were eventually arrested by Jordanian police. When the
truth came out, there was an immediate uproar over the
assassination attempt, causing massive embarrassment
for both the Israeli and Jordanian governments that
strained their relations. King Hussein threatened to jail
the Mossad agents unless Netanyahu coughed up the
antidote to the poison, which he did.
In the end, Israel was forced to release imprisoned
Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in return for the
release of Beads and Kendall, who were delivered to the
Canadian embassy before returning to Israel. Even the
Canadians were angry because they didn’t appreciate
Mossad agents using forged Canadian passports.

Cc: Laslaticlala
http://listverse.com/2015/11/06/10-controversial-mossad-operations/

mehn! this people are evil! so you mean the Jews can actually go this far to get their enemies? na wa o! odikwa egu!

Nice read..nice one op.

Pls if u will, dig up the CIA.

HopeAtHand:
Nice read..nice one op.
Pls if u will, dig up the CIA.

I will sir.

exotique1fy:



mehn! this people are evil! so you mean the Jews can actually go this far to get their enemies? na wa o! odikwa egu!

Of course, their are probably more brutal than the CIA.

this didn't come at a surprise to me though, I know the mossad are a group of powerful force if not more deadlier than the CIA, the intelligence distance will just be a little, report has it that they have the highest inside info concerning Africa,

what about the kidnapping of umaru dikko in london during buhari's regime. I guess they were the masterminder of the whole plot.