Avraham Shalom
Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.
Avraham Shalom was the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency. He was forced to resign his post in late June 1984 due to cover-up charges in connection with the Shin Bet killing in 1984 of two Palestinian hijackers while in custody. Shalom was part of a six-man Israeli delegation that arrived in Washington, D.C. in August 1986 to resolve the Jonathan Pollard affair. He, along with Ram Caspi and Hanan Bar-on, had been appointed by Shimon Peres immediately after Pollard's arrest to conduct an internal investigation. They reported within a week that Pollard was part of a rogue intelligence-gathering unit that operated without any government awareness.1
Rafael Eitan had a need to settle old scores with Yitzhak Hofi, the head of Mossad, and Avraham Shalom, Shin Beth's director. This personal ambition and need for revenge drove Eitan's actions, including the recruitment of Jonathan Pollard.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 21. ↩
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