Israeli secret service

The State of Israel is young, but the Jews, the most persecuted people in history, have long possessed a remarkable talent for penetrating their enemies' secrets The Israeli secret service is reckoned one of the most ruthlessly efficient in the world.

Here is the full story of Israeli intelligence, from the struggle to establish the Jewish homeland to the hunt for Nazi war-criminals, from the infiltration and" cooking' of enemy communications during the Six-Day War to incredible acts of individual heroism and ingenuity such as the exploits of Wolfgang Lotz, who posed as an ex-Nazi in Cairo and obtained countless Egyptian military secrets. Here too is the inside story of Israeli Intelligence's bloody undercover operations against Arab terrorists abroad. And no less astonishing are the links-often strictly unofficial-between the Israelis and the other secret services of the West, revealed here in detail. Richard Deacon's book is gripping and fast-moving, with all the elements of the latest thriller-except that it's fact!