She would befriend a target’s wife or mistress, gain access to the apartment, and leave a poison that looked like a heart attack. The book claims she eliminated three targets without a single witness.
If you believe the Mossad is simply a team of black-clad ninjas running rooftop chases in Tehran, you’ve watched too much Fauda (which is excellent, but it’s fiction).
Instead of killing Bull (which they eventually did), they needed to stop a shipment of specialized steel pipes. So, a Mossad team—posing as a Swiss shipping company—chartered a freighter, intercepted the pipes in the middle of the Atlantic, and switched the cargo manifest. She would befriend a target’s wife or mistress,
So, if you want to read the PDF, don't do it for the gadget porn. Do it for the human drama. Gideon’s Spies is the story of how a small tribe, scattered by history, learned to fight shadows with shadows. Disclaimer: Gordon Thomas’s work relies heavily on anonymous sources. While fascinating, treat it as a meticulously researched history with occasional "as told by the spies themselves" embellishment.
Take the case of . He wasn't a saboteur with a laser watch. He was a former German soldier turned Israeli spy who posed as a wealthy, horse-breeding playboy in Egypt. His intelligence on Soviet missiles being shipped to Nasser was invaluable. Instead of killing Bull (which they eventually did),
The Mossad is not invincible. They are incredibly talented, ruthlessly pragmatic, and occasionally sloppy. But their "secret history" reveals one consistent truth: In a neighborhood where six other nations have publicly vowed to destroy you, you don't survive by playing by the Geneva Convention rules. You survive by being smarter, faster, and willing to trade a spy for a spy.
Here are three of the most jaw-dropping realities from the book that Hollywood won’t tell you. We all know the story of how Mossad captured Adolf Eichmann in 1960. But Gideon’s Spies reveals the human cost of the spies who made it possible. Do it for the human drama
The "interesting" part? Mossad’s rule: No spy is worth a war. When Lotz was captured and sentenced to hard labor, the Mossad didn't mount a Mission: Impossible rescue. They waited. They traded captured Egyptian generals for him years later. The moral? In the Mossad, you are a soldier until the moment you become currency. Thomas dedicates significant space to the "Tick-Tock" unit—the female operatives of the Mossad.
In the 1980s, Iraq was building a "supergun" (Project Babylon) to launch satellites—or shells at Tel Aviv. The British engineer, Gerald Bull, was untouchable. So Mossad improvised.