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Rafi Eitan: Israeli intelligence chief who kidnapped Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and brought him to justice.

Deceased in 2019, at the age of 92.

 

Known as ‘Rafi the Stinker’ to British rulers of Palestine after he made his way through sewers to blow up a radar station, he was with his Nazi prey until the end.

Shortly after 8pm on 11 May 1960, a slight man stepped off a bus in suburban Buenos Aires. He seemed weary, ready to be home and looked bewildered when a car pulled up alongside him.

The man was Adolf Eichmann, chief architect of Hitler’s “final solution”, and one of the most-wanted Nazis in the world. Inside the car were agents of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. Their commander was Rafi Eitan, who became known as one of his country’s greatest, if most controversial, spies.

In 1999, the Welsh author Gordon Thomas published a book, Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. READ THIS INTERESTING STORY AND PICS HERE: