| Martin From Canada | 31 Mar 2016 12:07 p.m. PST |
[…]We can now report — based on interviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad's archived secrets from half a century ago — that Krug was murdered as part of an Israeli espionage plot to intimidate the German scientists working for Egypt.Moreover, the most astounding revelation is the Mossad agent who fired the fatal gunshots: Otto Skorzeny, one of the Israeli spy agency's most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler's personal favorites among the party's commando leaders. The Führer, in fact, awarded Skorzeny the army's most prestigious medal, the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, for leading the rescue operation that plucked his friend Benito Mussolini out from the hands of his captors.
But that was then. By 1962, according to our sources — who spoke only on the promise that they not be identified — Skorzeny had a different employer. The story of how that came to be is one of the most important untold tales in the archives of the Mossad, the agency whose full name, translated from Hebrew, is "The Institute for Intelligence and Special Missions." […]
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| cosmicbank | 31 Mar 2016 12:26 p.m. PST |
oh come on now you guys are just making &^%$ up |
| Garand | 31 Mar 2016 12:51 p.m. PST |
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Dave Jackson  | 31 Mar 2016 12:54 p.m. PST |
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| Martin From Canada | 31 Mar 2016 1:30 p.m. PST |
Bad formatting on my part (Bill must have changed the code for the website since it attaches a blockquote tag at the end of links that abuts the end of a quote. I don't remember it doing that before) . Just remove the <blockqote> Here's the link without it link |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 31 Mar 2016 2:21 p.m. PST |
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| zippyfusenet | 31 Mar 2016 5:07 p.m. PST |
Bizarre story. I guess it could be true. But I thought old Scarface Skorzeny's expertise was commando, not assassin. Didn't Mossad have their own letter bombers? |
| Winston Smith | 31 Mar 2016 6:49 p.m. PST |
Which thriller dealt with Mossad agents taking out the Nazi rocket scientists working for Nasser?
Was it a Forsyth novel? |
| Goonfighter | 31 Mar 2016 10:58 p.m. PST |
I think it was mentioned in passing in the Odessa File. |
| Mute Bystander | 01 Apr 2016 6:00 a.m. PST |
Somehow that just seems "wrong" but stranger things have turned out to be true… Of course assassinations have their own level of "wrong" to many. |
| Inkpaduta | 01 Apr 2016 9:55 a.m. PST |
Wow, The Nazi "James Bond" strikes again. |
| Winston Smith | 01 Apr 2016 11:08 a.m. PST |
Yes. It was "The Odessa File".
As I remember, the Mossad team had a German national on it as the tough guy.
Maybe Forsyth knew more than he let on. It wouldn't be the first time. I find him one of the best and believeable thriller writers. |
| Goonfighter | 01 Apr 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
From the limited knowledge I have, Skorzeny seemed something of an opportunist. So if the money was right or the job got the Nazi hunters off his case….. |
| zippyfusenet | 01 Apr 2016 7:49 p.m. PST |
I really doubt there was anything old Scarface could offer the Mossad that they wanted more than him. Nazi hunting was very personal with that generation of Israelis. They had all had family in Poland. |
| goragrad | 01 Apr 2016 10:58 p.m. PST |
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| basileus66 | 01 Apr 2016 11:09 p.m. PST |
It reads like a novel. But when confronted with "reports" from journalists who claim to be quoting unverifiable sources I tend to be sceptical. |
