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category: Intelligence & Government
summary: According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for
  $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana.
tags:
- Person
- CIA
- Israel
---

[Anthony Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) was a former British Special Airborne Service (SAS) officer who ran a company called [Strategic Intelligence Services](/organizations/strategic-intelligence-services/), located in [London](/places/london/). His firm provided espionage services to [Israel](/places/israel/), among others.[^1]

[Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) was known for recruiting mercenaries from Lafayette, [Louisiana](/places/louisiana/), and sending them to various parts of the world. His men were involved in helping the Muslim government's troops in southern Sudan fight against Christian-Animist revolutionaries in the early 1970s. In November 1981, some of his men participated in an unsuccessful coup in the Seychelles, where they were arrested for bringing in AK-47s in golf bags.[^1]

According to [Mossad](/organizations/mossad/) files, [Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in [Louisiana](/places/louisiana/).[^1]

[Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) recruited [Nicholas Davies](/people/nicholas-davies/), the London *Daily Mirror* foreign editor, for [Mossad](/organizations/mossad/) in the 1970s. He also worked with [Mohammed Radi Abdullah](/people/mohammed-radi-abdullah/), a former colonel in the [Jordanian](/places/jordan/) Army. [Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) used [Radi's](/people/mohammed-radi-abdullah/) unwitting help to acquire intelligence about Palestinian organizations in Europe by selling arms to them. This allowed [Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) to pass intelligence to [Mossad](/organizations/mossad/) about the groups' movements and weapons. Based on [Radi's](/people/mohammed-radi-abdullah/) tips, 14 or 15 Palestinians were eliminated over a two-month period.[^1]

In 1978, [Pearson](/people/anthony-pearson/) offered [Radi](/people/mohammed-radi-abdullah/) a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an [Israeli](/places/israel/) source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in [Israel](/places/israel/) run by [Rafi](/organizations/rafi/).[^1]

[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.