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Introduction: Intelligence that kills -- Setting the scene -- Preparing the kill list -- A firing squad in Rome and four Black September attacks -- A bomb in Paris and two attacks in Bangkok and Rome -- Assassinations in Nicosia and Madrid, attacks in Jordan and Sudan -- A "battle of the spooks" in Paris, Beirut, Nicosia, and Rome -- A car bomb in Paris, a firing squad in DC, a thwarted attack near Vienna -- Lillehammer fiasco : official condemnation, covert approval -- Conclusion: A secret security order
"This unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War reveals the key role of European agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation Wrath of God. Through unique access to unredacted sources, Aviva Guttmann uncovers a secret security order which operated independently of foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny"--