---
aliases:
- KK MOUNTAIN
- KK-MOUNTAIN
category: Intelligence Operation
created: 2026-05-17
summary: KK MOUNTAIN was the CIA code-name for its Cold War financial subsidy program
  providing annual cash payments to Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence
  service.
tags:
- Concept
- Intelligence
- CIA
- Mossad
- Israel
- ColdWar
title: KK MOUNTAIN
updated: 2026-05-17
---

KK MOUNTAIN was a code-name for one of the most sensitive operations of the [CIA](/organizations/central-intelligence-agency/) during the [Cold War](/concepts/cold-war/). It provided untold millions in annual cash payments to [Mossad](/organizations/mossad/), [Israel](/places/israel/)'s primary foreign intelligence service. In return, Mossad authorized its agents to act, in essence, as American surrogates throughout North Africa and in countries like Kenya, Tanzania, and the [Congo](/places/congo/). Some of the programs under KK MOUNTAIN were financed off the shelf by CIA contingency funds.[^1]

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1, 11.