Mehdi Ben Barka
Mehdi Ben Barka was a Moroccan dissident murdered in Paris on 29 October 1965, by members of the Moroccan Security Service working with the French SDECE and the Israeli Mossad.[1]
When French President Charles De Gaulle learned of the killing, he ordered an end to intelligence cooperation with Israel, and the removal of Mossad's European command from Paris.[2]
A report on the case in the Israeli magazine Bul, led to an unprecedented decision to impound the publication under security laws. Editors Shmuel Mor and Maxim Gilan were placed in administrative detention.[3]
Mossad chief Meir Amit claimed to have been given the go-ahead by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, an account which Eshkol disputed.[4]
Notes
- ↑ Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.157-158.
- ↑ Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.158.
- ↑ Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.158.
- ↑ Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.15.
