It sounds like pure fantasy, but then Mossad has pulled off amazing things in the past. Think only of Eli Cohen, for many years a friend and confidant of members of the highest political echelon in Syria, attending dinner parties with them, and with generals, too, in Damascus. Or of Nasser’s son-in-law Ashraf Marwan, who was a Mossad agent for years. Or of Sylvia Raphael, who posed as a Canadian photojournalist as part of the team hunting down those responsible for the murders in Munich of Israeli athletes. Or of Erika Chambers, who killed Ali Hassan Salameh in Beirut. Or of Wolfgang Lotz, who pretended to be a Nazi in Egypt during the 1960s, where he helped the Mossad discover the identities of German arms scientists working for Nasser, was shown by his Egyptian army friends where rocket launchers were located, and much more. He was so vocal with his feigned antisemitism that the Egyptians thought he must have been a former SS officer. Those are a few of Mossad’s agents. There are so many tales of derring-do and spycraft by Mossad agents that have still not been made public, and may never be.
Was Mossad Hoping to Make Mahmoud Ahmedinejad Iran’s Supreme Leader?
