Nachum Admoni

Nachum Admoni was the acting Director of Mossad and later its full Director. He was the first Mossad chief to be appointed from the bureaucracy rather than the military. He was appointed after Yekutiel Adam, who was in line for the position, was assassinated.¹

Admoni was involved in the Iran-Israel Joint Committee, which was assigned the task of supplying Iran with arms in its war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. He had equal power with the Director of Mossad on the subject of arms to Iran.¹

Admoni was briefed by Ari Ben-Menashe on the Israeli intelligence network's arms sales to Iran for Vice President George Bush in July 1986. He also received a phone call from Robert Gates in early February 1989, expressing U.S. unhappiness about Israeli activities in Chile.¹

Admoni was involved in the decision to move CIA money, which was under Israeli control, to the East Bloc in 1989. He was one of the three signatories to the slush-fund accounts, along with Ari Ben-Menashe.¹

Admoni left Mossad in 1989, but continued to advise Yitzhak Shamir on intelligence matters. He later became the chair of a public utility in Israel.¹