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The Spy Network - This Is The Most Dangerous Mission In Mossad History

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Author: The Spy Network
Categories: History
Tags: history
Views: 1 · Last viewed: 2026-10-13 23:17 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: The video presents Operation Wrath of God, Israel's covert campaign of assassinations against those believed responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre, as the answer to how the Mossad carried out its most dangerous mission. The operation, run through a government committee and the Mossad's Metzada hit squad, aimed at targets from PLO and Black September, and the transcript highlights the Lillehammer Affair as a major failure in which an innocent man was killed.

Key Points

  • A committee led by Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan set the policy, with General Aharon Yariv as counter-terrorism advisor, and concluded that those who supported or carried out Munich should be assassinated.
  • The Metzada team, led by Michael Harari, relied on plausible deniability, with squads named after Hebrew letters: Aleph and Bet as hitmen and guard/shadow, Hey for logistics such as renting hotels, cars and apartments, Zayin as the backbone for surveillance and escape routes, and Tet for communications.
  • The first killings were in Rome (Wael Zwaiter, shot 12 times) and France (Mahmoud Hamshari, killed by a planted bomb after being lured out by an agent posing as an Italian journalist).
  • Operation Spring of Youth, a sub-operation, raided guarded compounds in Beirut in April 1973 with commandos dressed as civilians, some disguised as women.
  • The Lillehammer Affair in July 1973 killed Ahmed Bouchiki, a Moroccan waiter, after an informant wrongly identified him as Ali Hassan Salameh.

Details Worth Noting

  • Concrete instructions: The video gives no step-by-step guidance for a viewer to act on. Its only operational content is a description of how the operation was organized: build an assassination list with help from insiders and friendly European agencies, keep plausible deniability by avoiding visible government links, split tasks across specialized squads, and use lures and remote detonation signals.
  • The assassination list reportedly held 20 to 35 people, though the exact contents are unknown.
  • Testimony from senior Black September officials contradicted the claim that Salameh was behind the Munich massacre, saying he was involved in European attacks but not Munich.
  • Five of the six agents arrested in Norway were convicted and imprisoned, then released and returned to Israel in 1975.
  • The video notes that it was later believed a secret Mossad unit called the Kidon was behind the assassinations, describing it as an elite unit tasked with planning and executing assassination campaigns.

Bottom Line

The video portrays Operation Wrath of God as a highly organized, deniable campaign whose most notable failure, the Lillehammer Affair, shows the danger of acting on flawed intelligence.