Espionage, Israel & Palestine, Canada, Intelligence & Espionage, Middle Eastern 

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be as surrounded by myth and mystery as the Mossad. Gordon Thomas reveals that all too often the truth exceeds all the fantasies about the Mossad. Revised and updated for 2015, this new edition includes:

- Mossad's secret meeting in 2013 with Saudi Arabia's intelligence chief to plan for Israel to use Saudi to attack Iran should the Geneva discussion fail to be honored by Iran.
- The attack on Iraq's nuclear reactor that will be the flight path to an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
- Mossad's new cyber-war unit preparing to launch its own pre-emptive strike.
- Why Mossad's former director, Meir Dagan, has spoken out against an attack on Iran.
- Mossad agents who operate in the "Dark Side" of the internet to track terrorists.
- Mossad's drone and its first killing.
- Mossad's role in the defense of Israel's Embassy in Cairo during the Arab Spring.
- An introduction to Mossad's new director, Tamir Pardo.

These and other stunning details combine to give Gideon's Spies the sense of urgency and relevance that is characteristic of truly engrossing nonfiction. 

Mossad. The word has a hundred different meanings: To some, Mossad is the precise--and at times lethal--instrument of Israel's will, a fiercely dedicated group of men and women who masterminded the abduction of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and stole a MiG jet out from under the nose of the Iraqis. To others, Mossad is a fearsome intelligence organization, loyal only to those who can control it, a shadowy, ruthless cabal of spies who have managed to plant an agent in the Clinton White House and smuggle enough weapons-grade plutonium out of the United States to jump-start their own nuclear arms program. But no one has ever gotten close enough to Mossad to know the truth.

Until now.

Created in 1951 to ensure the future of an embattled Israel, the Mossad is an elite intelligence arm whose handful of agents have been responsible for the most audacious and thrilling feats of espionage, counterterrorism, and assassination ever ventured. For the first time ever, drawing on closed-door interviews between the author, Gordon Thomas, and Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters, as well as classified documents and top-secret resources, the truth about Mossad is about to be revealed.

In Gideon's Spies, you'll learn how Mossad undercut the CIA as the Vatican's prime intelligence source by discovering the identity of those behind the failed attempt on Pope John Paul's life in May 1981; how TWA Flight 800 was ruthlessly exploited by the Mossad, resulting in the FBI spending hundreds of fruitless man-hours seeking proof of a terrorist act that never happened; about the assassination of Yassar Arafat's chief aide; and most explosive of all, about Mossad's involvement in the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed.

Woven together in a narrative that rivals the very best thrillers, Gideon's Spies reveals the Mossad as it truly is: brilliant, ruthless, flawed, but ultimately, awesome. 

CONTENTS
1. Before the Looking Glass .................................................. P. 1
2. Before the Beginning ....................................................... P. 33
3. Engraving of Glilot .......................................................... P. 57
4. The Spy in the Iron Mask ................................................. P. 77
5. Gideon's Nuclear Sword ................................................... P. 93
6. Avengers ....................................................................... P. 113
7. The Gentleman Spy ......................................................... P. 141
8. Ora and the Monster ........................................................ P. 163
9. Slush Money, Sex and Lies ................................................ P. 179
10. A Dangerous Liaison ....................................................... P. 199
12. Blessed are the Spymaster .............................................. P. 239
13. African Connections ........................................................ P. 255
14. The Chambermaid's Bomb ............................................... P. 269
15. The Expendable Cartoonist .............................................. P. 287
16. Spies in the Sand ........................................................... P. 337
17 Bunglegate ..................................................................... P. 361
Note on Sources ........................................................... P. 367
Select Bibliography ....................................................... P. 367
Index ......................................................................... P. 371