Reuven Shiloah - the Man Behind the Mossad: Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel

by Eshed,Haggai

• ISBN13: 9780714648125
• ISBN10: 0714648124
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the story of Reuven Shiloah - the man who established the Mossad, and laid the foundations for the intelligence community of the State of Israel. Although he was head of the Mossad for only two years, from its inception in April 1951 until his resignation in March 1953, Shiloah was considered an institution in himself, and through the organization that he created, he left his imprint on Israeli intelligence, playing a critical role in the complex and crisis-laden history of the establishment of Israel's formidable intelligence network. Shiloah manoeuvred his way around the grey world of undercover negotiations for three decades, from his induction at the beginning of the 1930s to his untimely death in 1959 at the age of 49. The book is based on private archives, and interviews with people who worked closely with Shiloah both in Israel and abroad.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(2)
Foreword to the English Edition	xi	(4)
Shimon Peres
Foreword to the Hebrew Edition	xv	(4)
Haim Herzog
Preface to the Hebrew Edition	xix	(4)
Haggai Eshed
INTRODUCTION Reuven Shiloah: The Man and his Time	xxiii
PART ONE - THE POWER OF THE TRIANGLE	3	(38)
1 `In' or `Not In'	3	(17)
2 Friends and Enemies	20	(9)
3 The `Tripartite Cooperation' against the Mufti	29	(12)
PART TWO - COOPERATION AND DISAPPOINTMENT	41	(50)
4 `Covert Cooperation' in the Defense of the Country	41	(11)
5 The Danger Draws Near and Fades Away	52	(7)
6 The Parachuting Operation - Between Evasion and Escape	59	(12)
7 `An Element of Evil'	71	(10)
8 `We Need an Intelligence Service'	81	(10)
PART THREE - TOO MANY DUTIES	91	(86)
9 From Zaslany to Shiloah	91	(10)
10 War on Three Fronts	101	(13)
11 The Creation of the Mossad	114	(24)
12 The Talks with Abdullah	138	(26)
13 The Covert Connection with the United States	164	(13)
PART FOUR - THE TERRIBLE FIFTIES	177	(90)
14 Adjusting and Adapting	177	(8)
15 The Circle of Friends	185	(13)
16 Neither Security nor Peace	198	(13)
17 The First Two Shots	211	(9)
18 The American Failure	220	(17)
19 A Crisis of `Deception'	237	(10)
20 The Rift Begins to Heal	247	(20)
PART FIVE - THE GOOD FIFTIES	267	(56)
21 Back Home	267	(18)
22 Integration into NATO and the Periphery	285	(10)
23 Revolution in Iraq and the Middle East	295	(10)
24 `One Can Delight in the Fundamental Change'	305	(10)
25 `Until He Burned Himself Out'	315	(8)
Afterword	323	(12)
Yoav Gelber
Index	335