D. The Israeli Security Agency (ISA) 360- The Yitzhak Rabin Assassination 361
- Covert Action: Assassinating the Engineer 361
E. Military Intelligence (MI) 361
F. Nativ’s Directors 361
G. Prestate Underground Militias 362 - The Arab Platoon 362
- The Avengers 362
- Briha (Escape) 362
- NILI 362
- Shai 362
H. Intelligence Officials (Biographies) 362
I. Media-Intelligence Relations 362
J. U.S.-Israeli Intelligence Relations 363
K. The Bad Business 363
L. Intelligence Assessment 363 - Overestimation of Threats 363
- Intelligence on Lebanon 363
- The Yom Kippur War’s Surprise Attack 363
M. Intelligence Satellites 365
III. Internet Resources 365
A. General Background and News 366
B. Counterterrorism 366
C. Intelligence Organizations 366
D. Operations and Affairs 367
E. Human Intelligence: Spying for Israel 367
F. Traitors and Spies against Israel 368
G. Parliamentary Oversight 368
I. INTRODUCTION
Due to the secret nature of the Israeli intelligence community, there are no official
documents on it, so the bibliography consists mostly of secondary sources. The
only primary sources, or quasi-primary sources, are autobiographies or biogra-
phies of several of the foremost figures in the directorship of the Israeli intelli-
gence. Ya’acov Caroz published his autobiography in Hebrew. There is a good bi-
ography on Reuven Shiloah, the first director of the Mossad, in English. Books
were also written by those involved in the most daring covert actions. For exam-
ple, Isser Harel and Zvi Aharoni—a former Mossad director and a former Mossad
officer, respectively—published their versions of the capture of Adolf Eichmann.348 • BIBLIOGRAPHY06-102 (11) Bib.qxd 3/24/06 7:36 AM Page 348