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Aman (Agaf ha-Modi'in) is Israel's military intelligence agency.[1] It is known by a number of terms in English, including Israeli Defence Intelligence (IDI).[2] 

Although often overshadowed by Mossad and Shin Bet, Aman has historically been the largest Israeli intelligence agency. It is a part of the military general staff, reporting to the Chief of Staff and the Minister of Defence.[3]

Structure and Personnel

Journalists Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman reported that Aman consisted of six departments in 1991, of which the largest were the collection and production departments.[3]

Leadership

Directors of Military Intelligence

Deputy Directors of Military Intelligence

Collection Department

The Collection Department is responsible for both agent and informer human human intelligence, and for signals intelligence.[3]

Heads of the Collection Department

SIGINT - Unit 8200

Aman's signals intelligence capability is provided by Unit 8200.[15] Prior to 1976, the unit was known as Unit 848.[16]

HUMINT

The Collection Department controls a unit responsible for human sources.[17]

OSINT

The Collection Department controls a unit responsible for open source intelligence.[18]

Production Department

The production department is responsible for intelligence analysis.[3] The Department is known in Hebrew as Aman Mehkar.[19] English sources use various names for the department including research department, production department, research and analysis department, analysis and production department and research division.

The Department is organised in a desk system along functional and geographical lines.[3]

Heads of the Production Department

Assistant Directors of the Research Division for Evaluation

Assistant Director for Operations

Basic Research Team

Southern Area desk

  • Jordan and the Arabian peninsula.[3] Known as Branch 2 at the time of the Yom Kippur War.[35]
  • Lt. Col. Zusia Kaniazher head c.1973.[36]

International Desk

Known as Branch 3.[35] Responsible for the superpowers at the time of the Yom Kippur war.[37]

Eastern Area desk

Western Area desk

Branch 7

  • Technical/technological desk.[34]

"Terror and Palestinians" desk

Report and Circulation Center

  • Established after the 1967 Six Day War to circulate material from the various collection agencies within military intelligence.[48]

"Foreign left-wing groups" desk

  • Haaretz reported in March 2011 that a department had been created in the research division that "will monitor Western groups involved in boycotting Israel, divesting from it or imposing sanctions on it. The unit will also collect information about groups that attempt to bring war crime or other charges against high-ranking Israeli officials, and examine possible links between such organizations and terror groups."[49]

Other desks

  • Inter-Arab relations.[3]
  • Middle East Economics.[3]
  • Territory and targets.[50]
  • A desk responsible for aerial photography existed within the Research Department in 1973.[51]

Field Security Department

Responsible for security across the IDF.[52]

Organization Department

handles administration matters such as logistics, finance and personnel.[53]

Contact

Eternal Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Aman, GlobalSecurity.org, accessed 29 July 2009.
  2. ↑ Private Israeli Company Collects Counter-terrorism Intelligence, Wikileaks, 1 September 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.207-208. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Prince207-8" defined multiple times with different content
  4. ↑ ISRAEL - Heads of A'man, Mossad, & Shin Bet, The Literature of Intelligence, Muskingum University,via the Internet Archive, accessed 29 July 2009.
  5. ↑ Ira Chernus, Helping Israel on a False and Dangerous Course, CommonDreams.org, 28 June 2004.
  6. ↑ Anshel Pfeffer and Amos Harel, Rising star Kochavi to replace Yadlin as IDF intelligence chief, Haaretz, 17 September 2011.
  7. ↑ Avi Shlaim, Obituary: Professor Yehoshafat Harkabi, The independent, 14 September 1994.
  8. ↑ Yuval Ne'eman, The Telegraph, 15 May 2006.
  9. ↑ Avi Shlaim, [Israel, the Great Powers, and the Middle East Crisis of 1958], Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 12:2, May 1999, archived at users.ox.ac.uk, accessed 9 July 2012.
  10. ↑ Ami Gluska, The Israeli Military and the Origins of the 1967 War: Government, Armed Forces and Defence Policy 1963-1967, aylor & Francis, 2007, p.105.
  11. ↑ Seymour M. Hersh, The Samson Option, Faber and Faber, 1993, p.293.
  12. ↑ Meir Elran, Institute for National Security Studies, accessed 9 July 2012.
  13. ↑ Danny Rothschild, World Economic Forum, accessed 10 July 2012.
  14. ↑ Amos Gilboa, Yochai Erlich, eds., Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Gefen, 2011, p.65.
  15. ↑ Michael I. Handel, Thomas G. Mahnken, eds, Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel, Routledge, 2004, p.168.
  16. ↑ Ephraim Kahana, Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence, Scarecrow Press, 2006, p.43.
  17. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  18. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Steve Rodan, Dynamic Duo, Jerusalem Post, 14 October 1994.
  20. ↑ Amir Oren, From Erdelhun to Erdogan, Haaretz, 12 September 2011.
  21. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, v p.105.
  22. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, v p.255.
  23. ↑ Uri Dromi, Quiet Man, Unquiet Times, Haaretz, 18 June 2004.
  24. ↑ Danny Rothschild, World Economic Forum, accessed 10 July 2012.
  25. ↑ Akiva Eldar, Popular Misconceptions, Haaretz, 11 June 2004.
  26. ↑ About Us, American Center for Democracy, accessed 31 July 2009, archived at the Internet Archive.
  27. ↑ Ronny Sofer, IDF: Syrian army in battle positions, ynetnews.com, 15 october 2006.
  28. ↑ Amos Gilboa, Yochai Erlich, eds., Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Gefen, 2011, p.382.
  29. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  30. ↑ Meir Elran, Institute for National Security Studies, accessed 9 July 2012.
  31. ↑ Ephraim Kam, Institute for National Security Studies, accessed 10 July 2012.
  32. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  33. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.115. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Watchman251" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Watchman251" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Watchman251" defined multiple times with different content
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.300.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.290. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Watchman290" defined multiple times with different content
  37. ↑ Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.138.
  38. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.xxii.
  39. ↑ 39.0 39.1 Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.179.
  40. ↑ Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.47.
  41. ↑ Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.183.
  42. ↑ Michael I. Handel, Thomas G. Mahnken, eds, Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel, Routledge, 2004, p.166.
  43. ↑ Michael I. Handel, Thomas G. Mahnken, eds, Paradoxes of Strategic Intelligence: Essays in Honor of Michael I. Handel, Routledge, 2004, p.166.
  44. ↑ Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.110.
  45. ↑ Uri Bar-Joseph, The Watchman Fell Asleep: The Surprise Of Yom Kippur And Its Sources, Suny Press, 2005, p.291.
  46. ↑ Amos Gilboa, Yochai Erlich, eds., Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Gefen, 2011, p.87.
  47. ↑ Amos Gilboa, Yochai Erlich, eds., Israel's Silent Defender: An Inside Look at Sixty Years of Israeli Intelligence, Gefen, 2011, p.384.
  48. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.6.
  49. ↑ Barak Ravid, Military Intelligence monitoring foreign left-wing organizations Haaretz, 21 March 2011.
  50. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.6.
  51. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.6.
  52. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
  53. ↑ Aryeh Shalev, Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War: Disentangling Deception and Distraction, Sussex Academic Press, 2010, p.5.
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