The Mossad, one of the world's most cold-blooded intelligence agencies, has carried out 2,700 kidnappings, assassinations and other missions in just 70 years, and its efficiency can be seen. So why is the Mossad so cold-blooded? And how did they rise?
Let's tell you a story, Ricardo Clemente lives in Argentina, is a Mercedes-Benz employee, he will take the bus to and from work every day, but on May 11, 1960, Ricardo missed the last train, and he had no choice but to walk home.
Not long after leaving the company's gate, a strange man suddenly burst out and called out Ricardo's name in Spanish, at this time 2 men rushed out from the street corner, and before Ricardo could react, 3 big men threw Ricardo to the ground and quickly threw him into the back seat of a car parked on the side of the road, Ricardo was tied up and his mouth was gagged. The car sped away and drove towards a nearby safe house.
In fact, this man is not called Ricardo Clement, his real name is Adolf Eichmann, a senior German Nazi officer, and the main person responsible for the implementation of the "final plan" in the Holocaust, known as the "executioner". In Argentina, he is a car salesman with a warm family, but when he takes off his mask, he is behind the crimes of World War II.
The executor of this mission is none other than the world's most secret intelligence agency, the Mossad. They're small, but they're more flexible, they're secretive, but they're more cruel. Since World War II, the Mossad has carried out far more assassination missions than any other intelligence agency, carrying out 2,700 operations including kidnapping, assassination, sabotage and theft. Even on Wikipedia, a list of tasks for the Mossad can be found.
After the end of World War II, Adolf Eichmann was captured by the US military, and five years later he successfully escaped from prison and fled to Argentina under a false identity, becoming a Mercedes employee and starting his own family. Israel naturally couldn't swallow this breath and sent 8 Assad members to hunt them down. Weeks passed, and the pursuit team still hadn't found a suitable next call. Perhaps too comfortable, Adolf Eichmann let his guard down and made a fatal mistake. He developed a habit of going to work at the same time, leaving work at the same time, and riding the same bus every day.
On May 11, Adolf Eichmann did not catch the last train, the opportunity of the Mossad finally came, and Adolf Eichmann was interrogated for 9 days in the safe house, because in the 50s there was no facial recognition and DNA technology, and the only way to determine whether the right person was arrested was to get them to confess.
Adolf Eichmann was then disguised and brought back to Israel to stand trial. With more than 100 victims, Adolf Eichmann was hanged in 1962. This is the first great achievement of the Mossads, and they are gradually becoming the most cold-blooded intelligence agency.
How strong is the Mossad? Together with the CIA, the Russian Federal Security Service and MI6, they are known as the "world's four largest intelligence agencies." But compared to the other three, the Mossad is much more low-key, and almost nothing is known about it. The Mossad was founded in 1948, when Jews had just settled in Israel, but until 1996 we didn't know who was in charge of the Mossad.
Unlike other intelligence agencies, Mossad agents are almost entirely lurking in the shadows, unrestricted by any agency or law, and under the direct command of the Israeli prime minister. So how did the Mossad develop in a small country with a population of only 9 million?
Amid Israel's unstable location in the Middle East and its neighbors looking at him, the Israeli leadership realized that having an army was not enough. The IDF has about 170,000 active-duty troops, compared with more than 600,000 for its arch-rival, Iran. So when the homeland is threatened, kidnapping, assassination seems to be another more effective means of countervailing.
Israel was later supported by the United States, which not only provided it with weapons and military technology, but also provided Israel with billions of dollars in financial assistance every year, so that despite its small size, Israel's military is one of the most powerful in the Middle East.
As early as the 50s, Israel that has not yet gained a foothold, is not as strong as it is now, the original intention of the Mossad was to ensure national security, in fact, Israel's army, police, diplomatic agencies have their own intelligence system, but the most efficient is the Mossad.
The main role of the Mossad is to gather intelligence, especially on the Palestinians. Over the years, Palestinian militants, have carried out dozens of attacks inside Israel. In 1972, at the Munich Olympics, a Palestinian militant group known as Black September attacked Israeli athletes participating in the Olympics, killing 11 hostages.
In revenge, the Mossad created a special operation group called "Wrath of God", which over the next year assassinated almost all the "Black September" Palestinian militants involved in the attacks. But in this mission, due to the desire for revenge, they accidentally killed many innocent people, after which the reputation of the Mossad plummeted, and it seemed to become synonymous with danger.
In 2004, according to Israeli intelligence, Iran was developing a small, portable nuclear warhead, and the Mossad's primary mission became to monitor and disrupt Iran's nuclear program. Since 2007, the Mossad has assassinated one Iranian general in charge of missile development, 16 team members, and five Iranian nuclear scientists.
In his assassination of Fakrisad, the father of Iran's nuclear program, the Mossad devised various options, such as shooting a motorcycle gunman into a car or installing sticky bombs on Fakrisad's car. But the plans were too complex and risky, and the Mossad eventually installed a remote-controlled machine gun embedded with artificial intelligence algorithms and multiple cameras in a pickup truck, a solution supported by American technology. The entire set weighs 1 ton and consists mainly of an FN MAG machine gun, a smart camera, and facial recognition software. They are disassembled and transported to Iran in batches, trucks loaded with explosives, and self-destruct procedures are initiated after the assassination mission is completed.
On November 27, 2020, Fakrisad went to his laboratory under the protection of several armored vehicles, as usual. But he himself was riding in just an ordinary car, without armor protection. Farkrisad received an assassination warning that morning, but he did not pay attention to the message. When the convoy reached the designated area, remote-controlled machine gun fire opened fire, and in less than 60 seconds, the father of Iran's nuclear program was assassinated.
At its beginning, the Mossad was just an intelligence agency, and over the years it has evolved into an executive agency. Behind the veil, Mossad agents are all cold-blooded killers, they assassinate members of Hamas resistance in Dubai and Tunisia and other places to hunt down Iranian nuclear scientists in the name of protecting Israel.
The success of the Mossad is inseparable from the support of the Israeli people. Unlike the CIA and MI6, the Mossad will not make passports for agents in large quantities, and when performing overseas missions, the agents use passports of Israeli citizens from all over the world who truly have dual citizenship, and after the mission is completed, the Mossad will return the passports to them, and this "expropriation" is not mandatory.
What's even more frightening is that almost all the world's Israelis or Jews will volunteer to help the Mossad, providing passports, funding money and even creating perjury to make alibi for Mossad agents to help them out of trouble.
This kind of "all the people are soldiers" has turned the Mossad, one of the world's smallest intelligence agencies, into the most feared "cold-blooded killer".
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