with aforeignagent.July:A revolutionbreaksoutinIraq,contrarytothe
evaluationofMI.Abdal-KarimQassemtakespower.

tothepublic.Asaresult,YehoshafatHarkabiasheadofdirectorofMil- itary Intelligence (DMI) and his head
of Operations
Branch, Major Gen- eralMeirZorea,aredismissed.HarkabiisreplacedbyChaimHerzogfor asecondtermasDMI.

18 February:DuetofearsofanIsraelistrikeagainstSyria,andEgypt’s
wish to reinforce its posture
as a strong state and to
stress the vitality of Egyptian-Syrian unity, Egyptian forces
secretly and under radio silence
begintocrosstheSuezCanal.23February:Aerialreconnaissancepho-
tography discovers that the Egyptian
fourth armored division has disap-
peared. Later the division
is found
widely deployed facing the Israeli
frontier.24February:Adiscussionchairedbythechiefofthegeneral
staffisheld,inwhichthedirector
of Military
Intelligence (DMI)reports on
the above
discoveries. Partial mobilization of the
Israeli army takes place,underthenametheRotemAffair,butnoconfrontationoccursbe-
tween Israel and Egypt.
Following the intelligence failure in
early detec- tion of the entry
of Egyptian
forces into the Sinai Peninsula,
the subject
of early warning rises
to the
top of
the list
for notification
of vital
infor-
mation. April:ThefirsthinttothepublicoftheAffair(BadBusiness)is madebyUriAvneriinhisweeklyHa’OlamHa’Zeh,bythedeviceofa fictional
thriller tale for the Passover
festival. Until then, details of
the episodehavebeenkeptunderfullblackout.May:EliCohenisenlistedto theMIandtrainedasaspy.11
May:AdolfEichmanniscapturedinAr-
gentinainastunningMossadoperation.21May:
Eichmann,dressedas anEl
Alcrewmemberanddrugged,issecretlyplacedaboardanEl
Al flightfromBuenosAirestoTelAviv.

1962 Cohen moves to
Damascus and rents an apartment
near the Syrian army general staff headquarters
to monitor
its activity
more conveniently. Hebuildsuphisreputationasagenerousbusinessmanandapatriot;hebe- comesfriendlywithmilitarypersonnelandmembersoftheSyrianelite,

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withwhomhetoursthelengthandbreadthofSyria.Bymeansofthesecon-
tacts, Cohen collects much
information, according to instructions1975; he will subsequently be called back to take up thispositionagainafterthe1984Bus300affair.19January:
Captain Abbas Hilmi, a pilot in the Egyptian air force dissatisfied with
the Nasseristregime,defectstoIsraelflyingaSoviet
Yaktraineraircraft. IsraelatthetimeisinterestedinobtainingtheSovietMiGfighter.

1965 18January:TheSyriansdiscoverCohen’strueidentity,andheis
caught.Hisinterrogatorstrytocoercehimintoremainingincontactwith
Israel; he uses this
opportunity to inform Israel of
his exposure
by a spe- cialcode.18May: CohenishangedinDamascusafterbeingsentenced
todeathforspyingforIsrael.Fall:Mossaddirector AmitandGeneral
Muhammad Oufkir, head of
Moroccan domestic security, meet in France to reach an agreement whereby
Mossad agents will set a trap
for Mehdi
Ben-Barka. Ben Barka, former
tutor of King Hassan and
ex-president of theMoroccanNationalConsultativeAssembly,isnowanopponentofthe Moroccan government. For the sake of
the Moroccan
Jews, Israel agrees to find Ben-Barka
and thus
enable the Moroccan authorities to do with himastheywish.29October:AMossadagentpersuadesBen-Barkato leave
Geneva, supposedly for a meeting with
a film producer in Paris. Three French security officers, cooperating
with the Moroccans, arrest Ben-Barka.30 October:Ben-BarkaisshotdeadbyOufkiroroneofhis
Moroccanagents.

1965 WolfgangLotz,anIsraelispyinEgypt,isarrestedandimprisoned.

1966
16August:IraqipilotMunirRedfadefectstoIsraelwithhisMiG-

21, an act
long planned by the Mossad.
Not surprisingly, in the
Six-Day WarinJune1967theIsraeliairforcedemonstratesitssuperiorityoverthe
MiG-21aircraftoftheArabairforces.Fall:InitspublicationNationalIn-
telligenceEstimate,MilitaryIntelligence(MI)maintainsthatEgypthasno
intentionofinitiatinganymilitarymoveagainstIsraelin1967,afteritswar inYemen.

May: EgyptdeployssixarmydivisionstotheSinai.Mossaddirector Amit suggests that Israel publish
aerial reconnaissance photographs of themassiveEgyptiandeployment;thistactic,accordingtoAmit,would