Baruch Bar Lev

Israel is a Middle Eastern state whose intelligence agencies (Mossad, Shin Bet, Aman), nuclear weapons program, and political relationships with U.S. intelligence and the American Jewish community are central subjects of this vault.

Uganda under Idi Amin (1971-1979) is significant for this vault primarily through the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, in which Amin provided support to Palestinian and German hijackers holding Israeli passengers at Entebbe Airport; the Israeli raid to rescue the hostages became one of the most celebrated special operations of the Cold War era.

Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was a CIA target for covert destabilization operations throughout the 1980s, a state that financed and trained international terrorist networks, the perpetrator of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, and a node in illicit arms procurement networks that intersect with Iran-Contra and PROMIS subjects in this vault.

Entebbe Airport is a Ugandan airport that was the site of the 1976 Air France hijacking, which ended when Israeli commandos raided the airport in Operation Thunderbolt to rescue the hostages.