Cataloguing half a century of Israeli intelligence's triumphs, debacles and infighting, this dense work will be of most use to Middle East and national security specialists. According to the authors, Israeli intelligence incorrectly predicted the British withdrawal from Palestine and 1948 Arab invasion; misread Egyptian and Jordanian troop deployment prior to the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and failed to provide adequate warning of the 1973 Arab onslaught. …
No intelligence service is surrounded by more myth and mystery than Israel's Mossad. …