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Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad » (Fifth Edition)

Book cover image of Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad by Gordon Thomas

Authors: Gordon Thomas
ISBN-13: 9780312539016, ISBN-10: 0312539010
Format: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: March 2009
Edition: Fifth Edition

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Author Biography: Gordon Thomas

Gordan Thomas is a bestselling author of forty books published worldwide, a number dealing with the intelligence world. His awards include the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism, the Mark Twain Society Award for Reporting Excellence, and an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Investigation. He lives in Ireland.

Book Synopsis

The untold story of one the the world's most powerful and mysterious intelligence organizations.

Commentary - Daniel Pipes

...[C]ontains many eye-popping claims....If conspiracist tracts of this nature cannot be entirely discredited, it is nevertheless of critical importance that they be exposed and denounced. At the very least, one can thereby hope to minimize the damage they are likely to do.

Table of Contents

Mossad Directors General

Glossary

Brief Arabic Glossary

Other Intelligence Services

1 Beyond the Looking Glass 1

2 Before the Beginning 31

3 Engravings of Glilot 53

4 The Spy in the Iron Mask 73

5 Gideon's Nuclear Sword 89

6 Avengers 109

7 The Gentleman Spy 135

8 Ora and the Monster 157

9 Slush Money, Sex, and Lies 173

10 A Dangerous Liaison 191

11 Unholy Alliances 211

12 Blessed Are the Spymasters 229

13 African Connections 245

14 The Chambermaid's Bomb 259

15 The Expendable Cartoonist 277

16 Spies in the Sand 303

17 Bunglegate 325

18 New Beginnings 349

19 After Saddam 373

20 God's Banker, Whistleblower, and Osama Bin Laden 405

21 A New Caliphate of Terror 435

22 Old Enemies, New Threats 459

23 The Pakistani Nuclear Black Marketeer 483

24 Web of Terror 503

25 Confronting the Dragon 525

26 Miscalculations 559

27 A Secret Channel and Hezbollah Rockets 585

28 Fighting the Fires of Satan 607

29 For the Moment 641

30 A Personal Note 669

Notes on Sources 675

Select Bibliography 681

Index 685

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