Operation Wrath of God : the secret history of European intelligence and Mossad's assassination campaign
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW HISTORY

Availability

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New & Popular History NEW HISTORY Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025
DESCRIPTION

xi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781009503075, 1009503073 :, 1009503073, 9781009503037 CIPO000234989, 1009503030, 9781009503075
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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"--

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