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"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"--
List of contents
Introduction: intelligence that kills; Part I. Preparing for God's Wrath: 1. Setting the scene; 2. Preparing the kill list; Part II. Europe's Covert War against the Palestinian Armed Struggle: 3. A firing squad in Rome and four black September attacks; 4. A bomb in Paris and two attacks in Bangkok and Rome; 5. Assassinations in Nicosia and Madrid, attacks in Jordan and Sudan; 6. A 'battle of the spooks' in Paris, Beirut, Nicosia, and Rome; 7. A car bomb in Paris, a firing squad in DC, a thwarted attack near Vienna; Part III. Blunder and Cooperate: 8. Lillehammer fiasco: official condemnation, covert approval; Conclusion: a secret security order.
About the author
Dr Aviva Guttmann is a lecturer in strategy and intelligence at Aberystwyth University and author of The Origins of International Counterterrorism (2018).
Summary
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.
Foreword
Reveals for the first time the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation Wrath of God.
