The Mossad, Israel's intelligence and special missions council, is one of the four top intelligence agencies in the world, alongside the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the Soviet Union's KGB and Britain's MI6.
Unlike the top intelligence agencies of the other three major powers, the Mossad, which has a reputation for failing only once in a thousand operations, played a crucial role in the creation of Israel and its implosion with the Arabs.
The Mossad is more mysterious and frightening.
How Mossad Became Mossad
The roots of the Mossad can be traced back to the Hagana, a clandestine Zionist militant organization active in Palestine before the founding of the state of Israel, which was responsible for smuggling weapons and munitions in order to restore the state.
Since Israel's founding in 1948 with U.S. help, Israelis have faced a deep sense of insecurity, surrounded by wolves.
They feel strongly that a first-rate intelligence agency that collects military and political intelligence, as well as some political assassinations, is essential for Israel to survive its obvious military weaknesses in order to preserve its independence.
So they turned the Haganah into the Mossad, initially trained by the Americans in the manner of the CIA.
The Israelis were very smart and they quickly learned the nature of the American intelligence forces. In addition, they were developed in a more brutal environment than the U.S. "Training, not training", and the Mossad quickly achieved "winning over the blue".
There are three main reasons for this success.
The first is the high quality of Mossad agents
Mossad agents have an extremely strict screening mechanism at the beginning of recruitment. The first are service members of the Israeli Special Forces, which ensures their basic physical fitness and combat skills. Specialized driving and gun use are among the elite of the elite.
Mossad agents are said to be able to speak as many as 180 foreign languages, one of whom can speak five or six foreign languages. Especially in the early days of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China, the Mossad absorbed a large number of elite intellectual groups, allowing these people to later unknowingly infiltrate the top leaders of other countries.
Finally, it is important to have strong overall qualities. For example, in the area of interpersonal communication, a challenge was set during the selection process that required a randomly selected passerby to provide information such as identity information, bank card number, home address, etc. within 15 minutes.
Those selected are subjected to extremely rigorous psychological testing to ensure they don't break down under extreme pressure.
After 10 years of contact, the chosen friends undergo a thorough and detailed examination.
Officials also disguise themselves as spy agencies from other countries, setting traps and offering generous rewards and inducements to test their loyalty to Israel.
Other traits are also a plus, such as that of Wolfgang Roz, the Israeli spy known as the Eye of Cairo. Wolfgang Roz, who drank so much that he wasn't Israeli at all, but German, so he had no trouble infiltrating the Germans.
Israeli agent Eli Kohn, who grew up in the Arab world and made his fortune in Syria, almost became Syria's defense minister.
The second is the extraordinary efficiency of the Mossad
It is also a tribute to the strong sense of unity of the Israeli people and the exceptional power that extends across the globe.
Mossad agents are not alone. Israelis all over the world are willing to offer their full help for the good of their country. So wherever the agents go, there are tons of Israelis in need of help, from the elite to the average worker, with and without money.
This also makes the Mossad very efficient in carrying out a wide range of missions, which are usually accomplished in a matter of minutes.
For example, Mossad's claim to fame was to gain early access to the contents of Khrushchev's anti-Stalin report, which was released to the world through the United States even before many in the Soviet Union knew about it. It took everyone by surprise.
Third is the high loyalty of the Mossad
The Mossad was created to defend the new Jewish state, and its selection system was so strict that its agents were recruited out of absolute loyalty to the state.
Before each mission, we had to make a good decision to vehemently deny someone else's orders once exposed; everything was personal, even if it cost us our lives.
On the other hand, the Israeli government has always been willing to make every effort to rescue agents captured in failed missions, such as Roots, the "Eye of Cairo," who was arrested by Egyptian authorities in an unintentional operation.
Israel did not hesitate to offer up to 5,000 Egyptian prisoners, including 10 Egyptian generals, in exchange for Roots' return.
In 1997, in an attempt to rescue two Mossad agents, Israel handed over the antidote, freeing Hamas spiritual leader Yassin. The two operatives had been captured in an attempted assassination of Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal.
But Jordanian officials persisted, and Israel lobbied the pope, the queen, ambassadors and others.
The state's unwillingness to hand over every agent also made the Mossad men more willing to die.
When Elaikorn was arrested, he shouted to the gallows in Syria:I want the world to know that I have not betrayed Israel.
It is due to the extremely high quality of agents, high efficiency and high loyalty, *** with the same to create such a Mossad in the world's sea of spies known as the Israeli Secret Service team.
Capturing Nazi leader Eichmann alive
Concentration camps and the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany in the Second World War are absolutely unforgivable hatred in the hearts of the Jews.
But after Germany was defeated and Hitler was brought to justice, many senior Nazi officials fled early and went unpunished. Including Eichmann, the architect and enforcer of the Holocaust policy, but how could Mossad stop.
The Mossad had a long list of assassins they aimed to get rid of at all costs.
Eichmann was the head of Nazi Germany's intelligence service and his counter-surveillance skills were strong. He first changed his name, disguised himself as a carpenter and lived in the Italian countryside for four years.
When the Mossad got wind of the arrest, it realized it had arrested a fake.
The operation to capture Eichmann was also temporarily stalled.
But soon after, the Mossad receives a secret report that Eichmann may be hiding in Argentina!
It turned out that shortly after Eichmann arrived in Argentina, his wife and children were with him, and his son was in love with a girl he didn't know was Jewish. To please her, he once bragged in a drunken stupor that his father had been a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany.
The girl was young, but as a Jew with a blood feud with Nazi Germany, she could not turn her back on her.
She recalls many details of the affair, one of which never revealed her home address and even wrote through a friend.
The little girl told her parents, who quickly contacted Israel, to Mossad's satisfaction.
They first sent two agents, who were able to pin down Eichmann's identity with the help of the girl, whose lover was Eichmann's son.
When the Israeli prime minister learned of this information, he immediately instructed the Mossad that Eichmann must be brought back to Israel for trial, dead or alive, preferably alive.
But secretly arresting a man from another sovereign country and bringing him back to Israel alive is an almost impossible task!
But the Mossad's mission is to do the impossible for the good of the nation!
Just then, when Argentina celebrated its statehood and Israel was invited to send a foreign delegation, the Mossad saw an opportunity.
So Israel sent a diplomatic mission, most of them secret agents on a diplomatic mission, while others operated covertly near Eichmann's home in Buenos Aires.
The agents soon figured out Eichmann's routine. Every night at about 7:40 p.m., the 203 bus**** he was riding in would arrive at a stop near his home, where Eichmann would get off and walk home.
So late that afternoon, Israeli agents drove two vehicles to the bus stop and stopped. Several men pretended to be working on the bus**** cars and observed the passengers of the 203 bus**** cars getting out.
A car drove by, one after the other, but there was no sign of Eichmann, and the agents were ordered to take possession if the next Eichmann didn't show up.
Then another 203 came along and Eichmann got out alone. After the agents finished their inspection, they turned on the car's headlights so Eichmann couldn't open his eyes from across the street.
"Excuse me, Mr. Eichmann," the agents said as they rushed forward and tapped him on the shoulder.
Before Eichmann had a chance to respond, the two men stuffed rags in his mouth, grabbed him by the arm, dragged him to his car and drove off two minutes later.
After the problems of capturing Eichmann and getting him back to Israel, the agents came up with a brilliant plan.
They fooled the hospital into certifying one of the team members by sending him to the hospital, pretending that his condition was serious and then asking to return in a few days for treatment.
The Mossad agents then used their superior document forging skills to quickly forge an identical medical document for Eichmann. Eichmann was in serious condition and needed to return home for treatment.
After injecting Eichmann with a large dose of anesthesia on his way out to make it look like he was seriously ill, Eichmann was able to sneak through Argentine airport checks and transport the Jewish arch-criminal back to Israel.
Afterward, the Mossad leader said it was much more difficult to get Eichmann back to Israel alive than to get his body back.
The Mossad's actions shocked the world, cementing the Mossad's position and making Nazi leaders tremble around the world.
Now you see me:Stealing airplanes and warships
Assassinations or targeted killings are relatively invisible. In fact, the Mossad, as powerful as it is, was able to retrieve airplanes and warships from Haiti.
The Mossad's principle is that if Israel can't buy what it wants, it will loot or steal it.
When Israel was founded, there was a serious confrontation with the Arab states. The Soviet Union began equipping the Arab states with state-of-the-art MiG-21s, which gave Israel air superiority.
How could Israel put up with this when the MiG-21 was so much better than Israel's own fighters?
Israel's top generals gave Mossad the task:Try to steal one back.
It was not easy!
But most importantly what the Mossad did not lack was talent, they thought that it was the pilots who had direct control of the planes, and if they turned the pilots around and let them fly the planes directly into Israel, wouldn't the problem be solved?
They conducted a secret investigation of Arab pilots and eventually found a disgruntled Iraqi Christian pilot.
The Mossad immediately organized a team to deal with the pilot, and they learned all about his family, as well as his interests and shortcomings.
Soon, the team effectively convinced the pilot's family to take them to Israel, but the pilot was hesitant.
That's when the team capitalized on the pilot's Achilles' heel and set up a beauty trap.
A beautiful Israeli agent was sent to bond with the pilot, and the Iraqi pilot was so mesmerized that he flew his latest MiG-21 over Israel the next day.
The Mossad has done it again, the first MiG-21 purchased by the Western world, and not even Israel's big brother, the United States!
In 1965, Israel ordered 12 warships from France, but when the delivery met with strong opposition from the Arab states, France eventually refused to deliver the last 5 ships under pressure.
The Israeli government demanded compensation from France and asked it to relax its vigilance, but instead ordered Mossad to steal the ships back.
The mighty Mossad registered a shell company in Panama to buy the remaining five battleships from France and very willingly paid a deposit while winning the trust of the French.
Meanwhile, Mossad agents infiltrated the base, and then on Christmas Day, 1969, while the French were enjoying a feast, the five warships infiltrated the Atlantic.
By the time the French realized it, it was too late.
Mossad operatives had many other successes, such as the murder and kidnapping of nine Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists during the Munich Olympics, which the Mossad spent nine years assassinating.
Despite its military might, the Mossad was not always strong. The Mossad did play an important role during the Cold War, and it didn't draw much criticism for its targeted killings.
But when peace and development became the world's mainstream, Mossad's behavior became increasingly illegal.
On the one hand, the Mossad is no longer able to recruit the best and brightest in society, so much so that it has had to openly advertise jobs and lift the veil of secrecy.
On the other hand, the Mossad has also failed repeatedly, even placing bombs or eavesdropping devices that have been discovered by passers-by, making it increasingly difficult to become an agent due to improved security facilities in various countries and people's heightened security awareness.