On Saturday, March 23, Rafi Eitan passed away at the age of 92. Eitan led the Israeli Mossad team into Argentina in 1960, and extracted Nazi Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust.
According to a Washington Examiner report, “Eitan was not just involved in Eichmann’s apprehension. He also assisted Israel with a number of other national security and intelligence projects, including its nuclear program, and the assassination of the Palestinians involved in the 1972 murder of Israeli athletes at the Olympics.”
The BBC noted, “Speaking to the BBC in 2011, Eitan described Eichmann as "completely average" and laughed off his own hero status, describing himself as only ‘half of James Bond’.”
However, Eitan also was the handler for “Jonathan Pollard, a US analyst who gave thousands of top secret documents to Israel. The FBI issued an arrest warrant for Eitan after Pollard was exposed. Pollard spent 30 years in prison after his capture in 1985.”
- Ray Keating
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