MOSSAD. Israel's Most Secret Service.

Hardback, 1st edn. Of all the world's intelligence services, the most intriguing, and for long the most successful and admired, is that of Israel, Mossad, whose full title translates as 'The Institute for Intelligence and Special Services'. The title conveys much of the special flavour of Mossad: a highly intelligent organization with an academic and scientific bent...and with ruthless hit-team capacity. With its origins as a secret army created by the Jews in Palestine to mastermind the illegal immigration of the 1940s, it has played its part in almost every aspect of Israel's struggle for survival, scoring brilliant triumphs in intelligence and in covert operations that have deeply impressed friend and foe alike. As well as its successes it has also had its failures and its scandals. With Appendix (Heads of Israeli Intelligence), Further Reading and Index. 234pp. 8vo. h/back. F. in vg+ dw.