which at the time was embroiled in a civil war in Algeria, since the
Algerian rebels were supplied and trained by Egypt and other Arab
states. Trident institutionalized many aspects of the exchange of in-
telligence information between its member countries.
The Trident Network established the procedure of semiannual
meetings of the directors of the intelligence communities of the mem-
ber countries to coordinate policy and priorities, as well as day-to-
day work, among the communities. They created standard forms of
communications and appointed liaison officers, enabling officers of
each intelligence community access to the others, including their
technology and training facilities. Although its level of intensity fluc-
tuated, intelligence cooperation within Trident Network was main-
tained until the 1979 revolution in Iran and made a distinct contribu-
tion to closer security relations between the participating countries in
the Eastern Mediterranean.TSAFRIRIM.See MOSSAD.TSNON.Tsnon, the Hebrew word for “radish,” was the agreed code
word for “war is imminent” prior to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. On
the night of 4 October 1973, the Mossad’s Top Source, Ashraf Mar-
wan, contacted his case officer in London and passed this code word,
conveying the message that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Is-
rael. He promised to provide more details within 24 hours. At 2:30 A.M.
on 5 October 1973, the case officer cabled the code word to the direc-
tor of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir.TSOMET.See MOSSAD.TURKI, DAOUD.An Israeli Christian Arab who managed a political
book store in Haifa. Between 1968 and 1969 Turki started to organ-
ize a Marxist revolutionary group. He wrote to Habib Khawarji, a
former Haifa Arab resident living in Cyprus, asking for financial aid
for his newly established organization. Khawarji referred Turki to
Syrian intelligence. By the end of 1969, he began recruiting members
for a new underground. In 1970 Turki attended a meeting of
Matzpen, an illegal anarchist group active in Israel during the 1960s
and 1970s. The group had about 100 members, a small minority of294 • TSAFRIRIM06-102 (04) Q-Z.qxd 3/24/06 7:26 AM Page 294