- Editors Note: This article shows the tactics that Mossad
use in order to create wars. It is equally applicable to methods being
currently used to disseminate disinformation about Al-Qaida in order to
keep the "war on terrorism" alive. Victor Ostrovsky was a Mossad
case officer from 1982 to 1986 and the methods he describes are exactly
those being used today. He also knows that being famous is what keeps him
alive.
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- Revealing the facts as I know them from my vantage point
of four years spent inside the Mossad was by no means an easy task.
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- Coming from an ardent Zionist background, I had been
taught that the state of Israel was incapable of misconduct. That we were
the David in the unending struggle against the ever-growing Goliath. That
there was no one out there to protect us but ourselves - a feeling reinforced
by the Holocaust survivors who lived among us.
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- We, the new generation of Israelites, the resurrected
nation on its own land after more than two thousand years of exile, were
entrusted with the fate of the nation as a whole.
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- The commanders of our army were called champions, not
generals. Our leaders were captains at the helm of a great ship. I was
elated when I was chosen and granted the privilege to join what I considered
to be the elite team of the Mossad.
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- But it was the twisted ideals and self-centred pragmatism
that I encountered inside the Mossad, coupled with this so-called team's
greed, lust, and total lack of respect for human life, that motivated me
to tell this story.
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- It is out of love for Israel as a free and just country
that I am laying my life on the line by so doing, facing up to those who
took it upon themselves to turn the Zionist dream into the present-day
nightmare.
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- The Mossad, being the intelligence body entrusted with
the responsibility of plotting the course for the leaders at the helm of
the nation, has betrayed that trust. Plotting on its own behalf, and for
petty, self-serving reasons, it has set the nation on a collision course
with all-out war.
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- One of the main themes of this book is Victor's belief
that Mossad is out of control, that even the prime minister, although ostensibly
in charge, has no real authority over its actions
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- The Mossad - believe it or not - has just 30 to 35 case
officers, or katsas, operating in the world at any one time. The main reason
for this extraordinary low total, as you will read in this book, is that
unlike other countries, Israel can tap the significant and loyal cadre
of the worldwide Jewish community outside Israel. This is done through
a unique system of sayanim, volunteer Jewish helpers.
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- My first six weeks were uneventful. I worked at the downtown
office, essentially as a gofer and filing clerk. But one chilly day in
February 1984, I found myself joining 14 others on a small bus. ... This
course was to be known as Cadet 16, as it was the sixteenth course of Mossad
cadets.
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- He walked briskly to the head of the table while the
other two sat at the back of the room. "My name is Aharon Sherf,"
he said. "I am the head of the Academy. Welcome to the Mossad. Its
full name is Ha Mossad, le Modiyn ve le Tafkidim Mayuhadim [the Institute
for Intelligence and Special Operations]. Our motto is: 'By way of deception,
thou shalt do war.'
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- "It's the old Trojan dick trick." He lit a
cigarette.
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- "What's that?" I couldn't help smiling; I'd
never heard it called that before.
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- "I knew that would get your attention," he
said, grinning. "Shimon activated Operation Trojan in February of
this year."
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- I nodded. I'd still been in the Mossad when that order
was given, and because of my naval background and acquaintance with most
of the commanders in the navy, I participated in the planning for the operation
as liaison with the navy.
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- A Trojan was a special communication device that could
be planted by naval commandos deep inside enemy territory. The device would
act as a relay station for misleading transmissions made by the disinformation
unit in the Mossad, called LAP, and intended to be received by American
and British listening stations. Originating from an IDF navy ship out at
sea, the pre-recorded digital transmissions could be picked up only by
the Trojan. The device would then rebroadcast the transmission on another
frequency, one used for official business in the enemy country, at which
point the transmission would finally be picked up by American ears in Britain.
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- The listeners would have no doubt they had intercepted
a genuine communication, hence the name Trojan, reminiscent of the mythical
Trojan horse. Further, the content of the messages, once deciphered, would
confirm information from other intelligence sources, namely the Mossad.
The only catch was that the Trojan itself would have to be located as close
as possible to the normal origin of such transmissions, because of the
sophisticated methods of triangulation the Americans and others would use
to verify the source.
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- In the particular operation Ephraim was referring to,
two elite units in the military had been made responsible for the delivery
of the Trojan device to the proper location. One was the Matkal reconnaissance
unit and the other was Flotilla 13, the naval commandos. The commandos
were charged with the task of planting the Trojan device in Tripoli, Libya.
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- On the night of February 17-18, two Israeli missile boats,
the SAAR 4-class Moledet, armed with Harpoon and Gabriel surface-to surface
missiles, among other weaponry, and the Geula, a Hohit-class missile boat
with a helicopter pad and regular SAAR 4-class armament, conducted what
seemed like a routine patrol of the Mediterranean, heading for the Sicilian
channel and passing just outside the territorial waters of Libya. Just
north of Tripoli, the warships, which were visible to radar both in Tripoli
and on the Italian island of Lampedusa, slowed down to about four knots
- just long enough to allow a team of twelve naval commandos in four wet
submarines nicknamed "pigs" and two low-profiled speedboats called
"birds" to disembark. The pigs could carry two commandos each
and all their fighting gear.
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- The birds, equipped with an MG 7.62-caliber machine gun
mounted over the bow and an array of antitank shoulder-carried missiles,
could facilitate six commandos each, while towing the empty plugs. The
birds brought the pigs as close to the shore as possible, thus cutting
down the distance the pigs would have to travel on their own. (The pigs
were submersible and silent but relatively slow.)
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- Two miles off the Libyan coast, the lights of Tripoli
could be seen glistening in the southeast. Eight commandos slipped quietly
into the plugs and headed for shore. The birds stayed behind at the rendezvous
point, ready to take action should the situation arise. Once they reached
the beach, the commandos left their cigar like transporters submerged in
the shallow water and headed inland, carrying a dark green Trojan cylinder
six feet long and seven inches in diameter. It took two men to carry it.
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- A grey van was parked on the side of the road about one
hundred feet from the water, on the coastal highway leading from Sabratah
to Tripoli and on to Benghazi. There was hardly any traffic at that time
of night. The driver of the van seemed to be repairing a flat tire. He
stopped working as the team approached and opened the back doors of the
van. He was a Mossad combatant. Without a word said, four of the men entered
the van and headed for the city. The other four returned to the water,
where they took a defensive position by the submerged pigs. Their job was
to hold this position to ensure an escape route for the team now headed
for the city.
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- At the same time, a squadron of Israeli fighters was
refuelling south of Crete, ready to assist. They were capable of keeping
any ground forces away from the commandos, allowing them a not-so clean
getaway. At this point, the small commando unit was divided into three
details - its most vulnerable state. Were any of the details to run into
enemy forces, they were instructed to act with extreme prejudice before
the enemy turned hostile.
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- The van parked at the back of an apartment building on
Al Jamhuriyh Street in Tripoli, less than three blocks away from the Bab
al Azizia barracks that were known to house Qadhafi's headquarters and
residence. By then, the men in the van had changed into civilian clothing.
Two stayed with the van as lookouts and the other two helped the Mossad
combatant take the cylinder to the top floor of the five-story building.
The cylinder was wrapped in a carpet.
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- In the apartment, the top section of the cylinder was
opened and a small dishlike antenna was unfolded and placed in front of
the window facing north. The unit was activated, and the Trojan horse was
in place.
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- The Mossad combatant had rented the apartment for six
months and had paid the rent in advance. There was no reason for anyone
except the combatant to enter the apartment. However, if someone should
decide to do so, the Trojan would self-destruct, taking with it most of
the upper part of the building. The three men headed back to the van and
to their rendezvous with their friends on the beach.
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- After dropping the commandos at the beach, the combatant
headed back for the city, where he would monitor the Trojan unit for the
next few weeks. The commandos wasted no time and headed out to sea. They
didn't want to be caught in Libyan waters at daybreak. They reached the
birds and headed at full speed to a prearranged pickup coordinate, where
they met with the missile boats that had brought them in.
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- By the end of March, the Americans were already intercepting
messages broadcast by the Trojan, which was only activated during heavy
communication traffic hours. Using the Trojan, the Mossad tried to make
it appear that a long series of terrorist orders were being transmitted
to various Libyan embassies around the world (or, as they were called by
the Libyans, Peoples' Bureaus). As the Mossad had hoped, the transmissions
were deciphered by the Americans and construed as ample proof that the
Libyans were active sponsors of terrorism. What's more, the Americans pointed
out, Mossad reports confirmed it.
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- The French and the Spanish, though, were not buying into
the new stream of information. To them, it seemed suspicious that suddenly,
out of the blue, the Libyans, who'd been extremely careful in the past,
would start advertising their future actions. They also found it suspicious
that in several instances Mossad reports were worded similarly to coded
Libyan communications. They argued further that, had there truly been after-the-fact
Libyan communications regarding the attack, then the terrorist attack on
the La Belle discotheque in West Berlin on April 5 could have been prevented,
since surely there would have been communications before, enabling intelligence
agencies listening in to prevent It. Since the attack wasn't prevented,
they reasoned that it must not be the Libyans who did it, and the "new
communications" must be bogus. The French and the Spanish were right.
The information was bogus, and the Mossad didn't have a clue who planted
the bomb that killed one American serviceman and wounded several others.
But the Mossad was tied in to many of the European terrorist organizations,
and it was convinced that in the volatile atmosphere that had engulfed
Europe, a bombing with an American victim was just a matter of time Heads
of the Mossad were counting on the American promise to retaliate with vengeance
against any country that could be proven to support terrorism. The Trojan
gave the Americans the proof they needed. The Mossad also plugged into
the equation Qadhafi's lunatic image and momentous declarations, which
were really only meant for internal consumption.
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- It must be remembered that Qadhafi had marked a line
in the water at that time, closing off the Gulf of Sidra as Libyan territorial
waters and calling the new maritime border the line of death (an action
that didn't exactly give him a moderate image). Ultimately, the Americans
fell for the Mossad ploy head over heels dragging the British and the Germans
somewhat reluctantly in with them. Operation Trojan was one of the Mossad's
greatest successes. It brought about the air strike on Libya that President
Reagan had promised - a strike that had three important consequences. First,
it derailed a deal for the release of the American hostages in Lebanon,
thus preserving the Hizballah (Party of God) as the number one enemy in
the eyes of the West. Second, it sent a message to the entire Arab world,
telling them exactly where the United States stood regarding the Arab-Israeli
conflict. Third, it boosted the Mossad's image of itself, since it was
they who, by ingenious sleight of hand, had prodded the United States to
do what was right. It was only the French who didn't buy into the Mossad
trick and were determined not to ally themselves with the aggressive American
act. The French refused to allow the American bombers to fly over their
territory on their way to attack Libya.
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- On April 14, 1986, one hundred and sixty American aircraft
dropped over sixty tons of bombs on Libya. The attackers bombed Tripoli
international airport, Bab al Azizia barracks, Sidi Bilal naval base, the
city of Benghazi, and the Benine airfield outside Benghazi. The strike
force consisted of two main bodies, one originating in England and the
other from flattops in the Mediterranean. From England came twenty-four
F-111s from Lakenheath, five EF-111s from Upper Heyford, and twenty-eight
refuelling tankers from Mildenhall and Fairford. In the attack, the air
force F-111s and the EF-111s were joined by eighteen A-6 and A-7 strike
and strike support aircraft, six F\A-18 fighters, fourteen EA-6B electronic
jammer planes, and other support platforms. The navy planes were catapulted
from the carriers Coral Sea and America. On the Libyan side, there were
approximately forty civilian casualties, including Qadhafi's adopted daughter.
On the American side, a pilot and his weapons officer were killed when
their F-111 exploded.
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- After the bombing, the Hizballah broke off negotiations
regarding the hostages they held in Beirut and executed three of them,
including one American named Peter Kilburn. As for the French, they were
rewarded for their non-participation in the attack by the release at the
end of June of two French journalists held hostage in Beirut. (As it happened,
a stray bomb hit the French embassy in Tripoli during the raid.)
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- Ephraim had spelled it all out for me and confirmed some
of the information I'd already known. He then went on. "After the
bombing of Libya, our friend Qadhafi is sure to stay out of the picture
for some time. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are the next target. We're starting
now to build him up as the big villain. It will take some time, but in
the end, there's no doubt it'll work."
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- "But isn't Saddam regarded as moderate toward us,
allied with Jordan, the big enemy of Iran and Syria?"
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- "Yes, that's why I'm opposed to this action. But
that's the directive, and I must follow it. Hopefully, you and I will be
done with our little operation before anything big happens. After all,
we have already destroyed his nuclear facility, and we are making money
by selling him technology and equipment through South Africa."
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- In the following weeks, more and more discoveries were
made regarding the big gun and other elements of the Saddam war machine.
The Mossad had all but saturated the intelligence field with information
regarding the evil intentions of Saddam the Terrible, banking on the fact
that before long, he'd have enough rope to hang himself. It was very clear
what the Mossad's overall goal was. It wanted the West to do its bidding,
just as the Americans had in Libya with the bombing of Qadhafi. After all,
Israel didn't possess carriers and ample air power, and although it was
capable of bombing a refugee camp in Tunis, that was not the same. The
Mossad leaders knew that if they could make Saddam appear bad enough and
a threat to the Gulf oil supply, of which he'd been the protector up to
that point, then the United States and its allies would not let him get
away with anything, but would take measures that would all but eliminate
his army and his weapons potential, especially if they were led to believe
that this might just be their last chance before he went nuclear.
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