Mossad Tradecraft: Mossad Spies, Covert Operations, Sayanim, Deep-Cover Agents, and Israeli Intelligence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184055527)

No intelligence service in the world is more mythologized than the Mossad. This book sets the legend aside and shows how the work is really done.

• How Israel turns the enemy's own officials into spies, and why a single human source can outweigh any satellite.
• The officers who spent years living as the enemy, and the deep-cover craft that kept them alive or got them caught.
• Targeted operations and the reach into hostile capitals, and the hard limit every strike runs into: an operation can remove a man, but not the cause he served.
• The clandestine rescue of endangered Jewish communities, from a fake Red Sea diving resort to the thirty-six-hour airlift out of Ethiopia.
• How a service of a few thousand people built a reputation and a reach far out of proportion to its size.

Mossad Tradecraft is a serious, carefully sourced account of the disciplines behind Israel's foreign intelligence service: the recruitment of enemy nationals, deep cover, the diaspora helpers, the long campaign against hostile nuclear programs, targeted action, operations on enemy soil, special operations and hostage rescue, the rescue of communities, and the counterintelligence that guards the service from within.

Drawing only on the public record, it explains not just what the Mossad has done but how, what its methods achieve, where they fail, and what they cost the people they touch. It respects the craft without admiring everything done in its name, and it replaces the image of an all-seeing secret service with a clear picture of a small, human institution doing dangerous and consequential work.

This is not a thriller, and it is not a manual. It is intelligence history, told with the seriousness the subject deserves.

Book Two of The Tradecraft Series.