In this unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War Aviva Guttmann
uncovers the key role of European intelligence agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation
Wrath of God. She reveals how in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre
Palestinians suspected of involvement in terrorism were hunted and killed by Mossad with active
European cooperation. Through unique access to unredacted documents in the Club de Berne
archive she shows how a secret coalition of intelligence agencies supplied Mossad with
information about Palestinians on a colossal scale and tacitly supported Israeli covert actions
on European soil. These agencies helped to anticipate and thwart a number of Palestinian
terrorist plots including some revealed here for the first time. This extraordinary book
reconstructs the hidden world of international intelligence showing how this parallel order
enabled state relations to be pursued independently of official foreign policy constraints or
public scrutiny.
