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Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community
by Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman
Dan Raviv
Every Spy A Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community
by Dan Raviv, Yossi Melman
Dan Raviv
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Overview
On the New York Times Best Seller list for 12 weeks (August 12-October 28, 1990)
"This is a comprehensive history of Israel's security establishment. The authors celebrate successes like Eichmann's capture, but far more interestingly, they do not shy away from examining the security services' failures... the book is riveting because Israel's early intelligence feats still resonate in today's world... the book makes valuable reading for anyone interested in Israel's world-wide plans to deal with matters affecting its security." — Wall Street Journal
"The authors... obviously found enough talkative sources... to provide them with the remarkable case histories they describe here. Even though some of the Israeli operatives sound boastful, the book is not propaganda or disinformation. While it is filled with many examples of how Mossad pulled off major coups, the authors are at pains to point out that the Israelis sometimes goofed... The authors flesh out stories that once made headlines with fresh material. Not all the Israeli intelligence triumphs involved violence. The Israelis managed to outrun the C.I.A. and all of Western Europe's spy agencies in getting their hands on a copy of Nikita S. Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956 to a special Communist Party Congress in Moscow that exposed the horrors of the Stalin era... The story of the 1960 capture in Buenos Aires of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal, by Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, is lovingly re-created. A high point of Israeli intelligence came in 1967, during the Six-Day War, when foreknowledge of enemy positions and abilities paved the way for a rapid victory. The astonishing rescue in 1976 by army commandos of hijacked passengers from Entebbe airport in distant Uganda gained added respect for Israel in the Western world. Against the triumphs, the authors balance these failures: Mossad's misjudgments in Lebanon, Shin Bet's killings of Arab terrorists in captivity, and the involvement of Israel in the disarray of Irangate. In addition, double agents were used in Britain and caught there; an American, Jonathan Pollard, was encouraged to spy and sell military secrets to Israel, and faulty intelligence resulted in 'misleading the Government over the future of the occupied territories, just as a Palestinian uprising was beginning.'... [a] highly revealing book." — New York Times
"Everything you wanted to know about Israel's spies and secret services — but were afraid to discover. This comprehensive history and analysis of the Israeli intelligence community offers many original insights into the secret psyche of the Jewish State... The book presents new information on some of Israel's greatest intelligence coups and failures." — Kirkus
"Basing their work on interviews with former operatives and on declassified documents, CBS news correspondent Raviv and Israeli journalist Melman here produced a revealing critical history of the rise and decline of Israel's vaunted security and intelligence arm." — Publishers Weekly
"[A] detailed history of Israel's intelligence agencies." — Washington Post
"Every Spy a Prince is by far the best book ever published on Israel's intelligence community, filled with new and fascinating information, skillfully and intelligently written and, above all, bold and judicious in its assessments of the triumphs and failures of one of the most remarkable espionage organizations in the world." — San Francisco Chronicle
"A highly readable, well-organized portrait of the main Israeli intelligence services .. . . Every Spy a Prince is a valuable, balanced addition to the mushrooming literature about the world's second oldest profession." — Newsday
"This is a comprehensive history of Israel's security establishment. The authors celebrate successes like Eichmann's capture, but far more interestingly, they do not shy away from examining the security services' failures... the book is riveting because Israel's early intelligence feats still resonate in today's world... the book makes valuable reading for anyone interested in Israel's world-wide plans to deal with matters affecting its security." — Wall Street Journal
"The authors... obviously found enough talkative sources... to provide them with the remarkable case histories they describe here. Even though some of the Israeli operatives sound boastful, the book is not propaganda or disinformation. While it is filled with many examples of how Mossad pulled off major coups, the authors are at pains to point out that the Israelis sometimes goofed... The authors flesh out stories that once made headlines with fresh material. Not all the Israeli intelligence triumphs involved violence. The Israelis managed to outrun the C.I.A. and all of Western Europe's spy agencies in getting their hands on a copy of Nikita S. Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956 to a special Communist Party Congress in Moscow that exposed the horrors of the Stalin era... The story of the 1960 capture in Buenos Aires of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal, by Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, is lovingly re-created. A high point of Israeli intelligence came in 1967, during the Six-Day War, when foreknowledge of enemy positions and abilities paved the way for a rapid victory. The astonishing rescue in 1976 by army commandos of hijacked passengers from Entebbe airport in distant Uganda gained added respect for Israel in the Western world. Against the triumphs, the authors balance these failures: Mossad's misjudgments in Lebanon, Shin Bet's killings of Arab terrorists in captivity, and the involvement of Israel in the disarray of Irangate. In addition, double agents were used in Britain and caught there; an American, Jonathan Pollard, was encouraged to spy and sell military secrets to Israel, and faulty intelligence resulted in 'misleading the Government over the future of the occupied territories, just as a Palestinian uprising was beginning.'... [a] highly revealing book." — New York Times
"Everything you wanted to know about Israel's spies and secret services — but were afraid to discover. This comprehensive history and analysis of the Israeli intelligence community offers many original insights into the secret psyche of the Jewish State... The book presents new information on some of Israel's greatest intelligence coups and failures." — Kirkus
"Basing their work on interviews with former operatives and on declassified documents, CBS news correspondent Raviv and Israeli journalist Melman here produced a revealing critical history of the rise and decline of Israel's vaunted security and intelligence arm." — Publishers Weekly
"[A] detailed history of Israel's intelligence agencies." — Washington Post
"Every Spy a Prince is by far the best book ever published on Israel's intelligence community, filled with new and fascinating information, skillfully and intelligently written and, above all, bold and judicious in its assessments of the triumphs and failures of one of the most remarkable espionage organizations in the world." — San Francisco Chronicle
"A highly readable, well-organized portrait of the main Israeli intelligence services .. . . Every Spy a Prince is a valuable, balanced addition to the mushrooming literature about the world's second oldest profession." — Newsday
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940186184546 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Plunkett Lake Press |
| Publication date: | 01/15/2024 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 371,250 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Dan Raviv was born in New York in 1954 and earned a BA degree from Harvard University in 1976. Most of his ensuing career was spent at CBS News as National Correspondent for CBS’s radio network.
He worked for CBS for 42 years, based in Boston, New York, Tel Aviv, London, Miami, and Washington, and traveled to dozens of countries to cover significant stories. He now writes books and articles, mostly about current events and recent history in the Middle East. On network radio, he was anchor of the CBS News Weekend Roundup.
Raviv is co-author with Yossi Melman of Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community, and (also with Melman) of Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance and Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars. His book, Comic Wars, chronicles the battle between Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman for control of Marvel Entertainment – and how two immigrants who ran a toy company rushed to bankruptcy court and beat the billionaires to win control of Marvel and turn the comic books company into a movie-making triumph.
Born in 1950 in Poland, Yossi Melman emigrated to Israel in 1957, served in an Israeli special forces unit, and graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in international relations and history. One of Israel’s leading journalists, Melman is the security and intelligence commentator of Ha’aretz. In 1997 he was accepted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Melman received the 2009 Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award, and was from 2007 to 2010 a panelist with the Washington Post.
Melman’s 10 books on foreign policy, strategic issues, terrorism and intelligence appeared in more than 50 countries and were translated into 15 languages. In 2016 he was a special consultant and protagonist in “Zero Days,” a documentary on the secret cooperation between Israeli and American intelligence communities to destroy Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. In 2017 he created and wrote the script for “Inside the Mossad,” a documentary on the history of the Mossad. In 2022 he wrote the script for “Munich: Of Games and Blood,” a documentary about the terror attack on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Melman was a Nieman Fellow in 1990 at Harvard and won the 1994 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism and the 1995 Boris Smolar Award of Excellence in International News or Feature Reporting.
He worked for CBS for 42 years, based in Boston, New York, Tel Aviv, London, Miami, and Washington, and traveled to dozens of countries to cover significant stories. He now writes books and articles, mostly about current events and recent history in the Middle East. On network radio, he was anchor of the CBS News Weekend Roundup.
Raviv is co-author with Yossi Melman of Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community, and (also with Melman) of Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance and Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars. His book, Comic Wars, chronicles the battle between Carl Icahn and Ronald Perelman for control of Marvel Entertainment – and how two immigrants who ran a toy company rushed to bankruptcy court and beat the billionaires to win control of Marvel and turn the comic books company into a movie-making triumph.
Born in 1950 in Poland, Yossi Melman emigrated to Israel in 1957, served in an Israeli special forces unit, and graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in international relations and history. One of Israel’s leading journalists, Melman is the security and intelligence commentator of Ha’aretz. In 1997 he was accepted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Melman received the 2009 Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most prestigious journalism award, and was from 2007 to 2010 a panelist with the Washington Post.
Melman’s 10 books on foreign policy, strategic issues, terrorism and intelligence appeared in more than 50 countries and were translated into 15 languages. In 2016 he was a special consultant and protagonist in “Zero Days,” a documentary on the secret cooperation between Israeli and American intelligence communities to destroy Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. In 2017 he created and wrote the script for “Inside the Mossad,” a documentary on the history of the Mossad. In 2022 he wrote the script for “Munich: Of Games and Blood,” a documentary about the terror attack on the Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
Melman was a Nieman Fellow in 1990 at Harvard and won the 1994 Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism and the 1995 Boris Smolar Award of Excellence in International News or Feature Reporting.
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