Operation Damocles : Israel's secret war against Hitler's scientists, 1951-1967
Edition
1st Pegasus Books ed.
Publication Information
New York : Pegasus Books, 2013.
Physical Description
268 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel. Because such an ambitious project required Western expertise, the Egyptian leader President Nasser hired West German scientists, many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket program at Peenemünde and elsewhere. These covert plans soon came to the attention of Israel's legendary secret service, Mossad, and caused deep alarm in Tel Aviv. Would Israel fall under the shadow of long-range missiles held by a ruler who was sworn to destroy the Jewish state? Could the missiles be fitted with warheads filled with radiological, chemical, or even nuclear materials? Israel responded by using threats, intimidation, and brutal assassination squads to deter the German scientists from working on Nasser's behalf. Exactly half a century later, this book tells the gripping story of the mysterious arms dealers, Mossad assassins, scientific genii, and leading figures who all played their part in Operation Damocles"--Dust jacket.
Notes
Maps on linings papers.
Subjects
- Espionage > Israel > History > 20th century.
- Intelligence service > Israel > History > 20th century.
- Military intelligence > Israel > History > 20th century.
- Military weapons > Research > Egypt > History > 20th century.
- Scientists > Germany (West) > History > 20th century.
- Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim > History > 20th century.