Reuben Yirador
Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.
Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. He was later replaced by Lt. Col. Sasson Yishaek as commander of the department, but remained in Mossad.1
In 1972, Yirador was involved in a significant discovery when he decoded a Soviet intercept (VENONA) that revealed the Soviets were bugging the office of Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel. This discovery, along with Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev and her rejection of a peace settlement, informed Anwar Sadat and may have prompted the 1973 war.1
Sources
- Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩
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