When it comes to secret service organizations, we are familiar with the American Central Intelligence Agency, the Soviet Union's KGB. Like to watch the "007" series, the British MI6 also enjoy. In fact, there is a young secret service organization is also very famous, that is, Israel's Mossad.
The famous Mossad
In 1951, shortly after the founding of the state of Israel, it decided to set up its own national intelligence agency, so on the basis of the former military organization "Haganah", the "Mossad" was established.
The Mossad is more mysterious than any other intelligence agency in the world. In Hebrew, the word "Mossad" simply means "bureau.
But when people in Israel think of the bureau, they think of the Mossad, and this shows its unique position in the hearts of Israelis. It's like the Chinese saying, "When you go to the police station," you're referring to the Public Security Bureau.
The Mossad, as an intelligence agency, reacts very quickly to all kinds of events, and its agents are known for their secretive and bizarre style of work, with all kinds of strange and ruthless methods.
The Jews, as a people who were greatly persecuted during World War II, and who have managed to rebuild the state of their people after thousands of years, will strike the harshest and most thorough blows against all acts that jeopardize the security of the Jewish people or the state of Israel.
These strikes are often costly, some may be planned for years to decades, and there is no "give up" in the Mossad's mission.
Only a fraction of Mossad's intelligence activities are publicized, but that fraction alone would make Jews very proud.
One of these was the capture of the absconding former high-ranking German Nazi official and mastermind of the Jewish Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann.
Adolf Eichmann had first been in charge of running the Jewish concentration camps during World War II and had planned and organized the final program of the Jewish Holocaust.
But after World War II, although once captured by the U.S. Army, the cunning Eichmann still escaped from prison and went into hiding.
But after the Mossad was formed, it made the hunt for Adolf a mission that had to be accomplished, and has been persistent in its pursuit.
This search lasted more than a decade, and in the 1960s, the Mossad finally discovered that Eichmann, under the alias of Ricardo Clermont, had been hiding in an Argentinean automobile company.
The hunt for Adolf was very much a Mossad affair, with no diplomatic maneuvering whatsoever. In Argentina, Mossad agents were sent to secretly capture Eichmann on his way home from work, and brought him back to Israel to stand trial.
Because the tactics were similar to "kidnapping" and took place in Argentina, it even led to a diplomatic dispute between Argentina and Israel. But when it comes to national issues, the Israeli government has been tough and unconditionally supported the Mossad's action.
The other thing Mossad is known for is the "Divine Wrath" operation it launched after the 1972 Munich tragedy.
In 1972, the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, an event that was supposed to be a symbol of world peace, was overshadowed by the murder of as many as eleven Israeli athletes by terrorists in what became known as the Munich tragedy.
After the tragedy, Israel's then-prime minister made a speech at the airport announcing to the world that Israel would hunt down and kill all the killers, no matter when, no matter where and no matter who they were.
And the burden of carrying out this task naturally fell on the Mossad. After repeated investigations, the Mossad made a list of terrorists involved in the tragedy and launched a retaliatory operation called "Operation Divine Wrath," in which the terrorists on the list were hanged one by one.
In order to carry out this mission, the Mossad poured its elite, will be distributed around the world lurking agents one by one "wake up". The terrorists on the list.
Some are blown up when they answer a phone call, and some somehow evaporate, leaving no one unscathed.
The whole back-and-forth took seven years, and this public retaliation made the Mossad famous, and the whole thing was even made into a movie by the great director Spielberg, which is quite legendary.
Daring to take on Russia
Israel's prophets believed in the concept of striking first, and this concept has been implemented in the Mossad as well. In the Middle East, Israel and the Arabs have always been at loggerheads.
Some extremists in Arab countries have been clamoring for Israel to be wiped off the world map.
After all, Israel's territory is not large, there is no strategic depth, if encountered with nuclear weapons attack, the entire country disappears is a matter of moments. Therefore, Israel has been preventing the development of nuclear weapons on the part of the Arab countries.
In the 1980s, Iraq built a nuclear power plant with foreign help, and Israel believed that Iraq must want to use the plant to develop nuclear weapons.
So there were Mossad agents who mapped out the location of the nuclear power plant and lurked inside, and then guided the Israeli air force fighters to blow up the plant directly.
Directly bombing a nuclear power plant is something only the Mossad can do, and fortunately the Iraqis were able to save the plant in time, or else a nuclear leak would have been inevitable.
The Mossad even went so far as to assassinate important Iranian scientists in order to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. And in fact, in addition to Iran's own scientists, Israel's targets even include scientists from third-party countries.
If they are believed to be going to help Iran develop nuclear weapons, then the Mossad goes out on missions to eliminate them.In 1993, six Russian experts on missiles were assassinated.
Russia was just recently formed, and many scientists and engineers in the military-industrial world were running off to work and live in other countries to make ends meet, and the Russian government was too self-involved to turn a blind eye to this.
And the six assassinated missile experts have one **** in common - they were all invited by Iran to work there, and naturally became targets of the Mossad.
Of course, this is not to say that Russia was weak, it's just that the Russian government was still in a state of disarray at the time, with the KGB disbanded and the new intelligence structure (FSB) not functioning smoothly, which gave the Mossad the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.
No match for the wise-cracking German amazons
Of course the forest is full of birds. Although the recruitment requirements for Mossad agents have always been harsh, the quality of Mossad's recruits has been declining as the war has gone and peace has come, with fewer and fewer young men willing to take on such dangerous work.
The Mossad has previously made a joke of itself in Germany, where two agents on a simple mission were hilariously recognized by an ordinary woman and nearly arrested by police.
What happened wasn't really complicated. It's that two Mossad agents ran into a small German town, only to have their car accidentally get stuck in a mud pit and they couldn't get out.
The helpless two people are unfamiliar with the place, but they are not in a hurry, just wandering around the neighborhood. Turning and turning, they accidentally turned into a farm.
The owner of the farm, an older woman, was alerted to the sudden discovery of uninvited guests, and questioned the purpose of the two men coming to the farm. The two agents were not on the farm per se, but had simply come here by mistake.
They hadn't prepared a speech, but as agents, their reactions on the spot were really poor. The two were incoherent, first saying they liked the horses at Big Momma's farm and wanted to go for a group photo, and then a moment later saying they were here to prepare for a sailboat race.
The German woman was already skeptical, and once she heard their explanations, she was even more certain that something was wrong with them.
There was no large area of water near the farm that would be suitable for a regatta or sailing training, so these two must be lying.
The German woman called the police, who came and searched their car, but found two assault rifles.
The two men panicked at the sight and had to pull out their papers to prove they were Mossad agents and not dangerous.
And the reason they were here was because a submarine ordered by Israel from a nearby German military shipyard was due to be delivered soon, so the Israeli side sent them to monitor the related security.
While the two Mossad agents were eventually released after the Israeli embassy intervened, the jokes made have gone viral.
And later, the German amah was asked in an interview when she began to suspect the two men. The big mom simply and simply said, these two people black trench coat, military pants, looks like a spy agent or something like that.
There is much more to the Mossad story, some of which, when spiced up and circulated, is a real-life version of James Bond.
Yet the reality is that agents, despite their rigorous training, are ultimately ordinary human beings with no three heads or six arms, while many of the missions they are given require extraordinary courage, intelligence and conviction.
They serve their country and its people, and many are required to live their lives incognito. Though their battles are not exposed to the sunlight, they are forever remembered by their own countrymen.