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#Mossad

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People (12)

  • Ari Ben-Menashe Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli-Canadian who describes himself as a former military-intelligence official and became a recurring source for claims about U.S.-Israeli arms dealing, the October Surprise, PROMIS, Robert Maxwell, and Jeffrey Epstein, claims repeatedly found uncorroborated and, by a congressional task force, not credible.
  • Cindy Hanin Bentov Florida-born Mossad agent Cheryl Hanin Bentov, who under the name Cindy lured Mordechai Vanunu from London to Rome in September 1986, identified by the Sunday Times through a London hotel register.
  • David Kimche David Kimche was a senior Mossad officer who became director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry and served as the primary Israeli architect of the arms-for-hostages initiative that became the Iran-Contra affair, pressing the Reagan administration in mid-1985 to approve weapons transfers to Iran.
  • Ghislaine Maxwell British socialite convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking a minor as Jeffrey Epstein's principal accomplice, daughter of Robert Maxwell, whose immunity appeal failed and whose 2025 Justice Department interview preceded a prison-camp transfer.
  • Jeffrey Epstein Jeffrey Epstein was an American financier and convicted sex offender who trafficked girls with Ghislaine Maxwell across five residences, cultivated financiers, politicians, scientists and intelligence officials, and died in federal custody in 2019.
  • Mike Harari Mossad officer who led the 1973 Lillehammer team and became Manuel Noriega's associate in Panama, named in 1988 Senate testimony for arms dealing through false end-user certificates.
  • Mordecai Vanunu Technician at Israel's Dimona reprocessing plant from 1977 to 1985 who gave photographs of it to the Sunday Times, was lured from London to Rome by the Mossad in 1986, and served eighteen years.
  • Nicholas Davies Foreign editor of the Daily Mirror under Robert Maxwell, accused by Seymour Hersh in 1991 of working for the Mossad and dealing arms with Ari Ben-Menashe, and dismissed that October.
  • Rafael Eitan Rafael Eitan was a veteran Israeli intelligence operative who led the LAKAM science intelligence bureau, ran Jonathan Pollard as an intelligence asset against the United States, and was alleged by multiple sources to have acquired and internationally distributed PROMIS software with a hidden surveillance backdoor.
  • Robert Maxwell Robert Maxwell was a British publisher and Labour MP, alleged to have served Israeli, British, and Soviet intelligence, who looted the Mirror Group pension funds and died at sea in 1991.
  • Uri Geller Israeli performer tested at Stanford Research Institute in 1972 and 1973 with Technical Services Division money, whom a CIA reviewer thought no more than a skillful magician.
  • Yaacov Nimrodi Yaacov Nimrodi was an Israeli arms dealer and former military intelligence attache in Iran who served alongside David Kimche and Al Schwimmer as part of the 'troika' that managed the first three Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages transfers in 1985.

Organizations (1)

  • SAVAK SAVAK (Sazman-e Ettelaat va Amniyat-e Keshvar) was the Iranian secret police established in 1957 with CIA and Mossad assistance; it protected the Shah's regime through surveillance, torture, and assassination of political opponents until it was dissolved following the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Programs (1)

  • KK MOUNTAIN 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.

Places (3)

  • Jerusalem Jerusalem is the contested capital of Israel and a site claimed by Palestinians for a future capital; it appears in this vault primarily in connection with Israeli intelligence operations, Camp David Accords negotiations, and the Sabra and Shatila massacre investigations.
  • Palestine Palestine is the name used for the territory comprising the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem claimed for an independent Palestinian state; Palestinian organizations including the PLO, Black September, and PFLP figure extensively in the vault's Mossad operations and Israeli intelligence subjects, as do the CIA's relations with Palestinian intelligence.
  • Tel Aviv Tel Aviv is Israel's largest metropolitan area and de facto commercial and intelligence capital; it served as a key node in the Iran-Contra arms pipeline and the Israel-South Africa arms relationship, and is home to institutions central to the vault's Israeli intelligence subjects including Mossad headquarters.