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Unconventional tactics: psychological manipulation, forged identities, honey traps, and deep-cover infiltration. The establishment of the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations (Mossad)
The Mossad was established immediately after the establishment of the State of Israel, when Prime Minister David Ben Gurion recognized that national frameworks must be set up for the intelligence bodies that already operated prior to the establishment of the state. As is customary worldwide, the decision was to set up three separate frameworks: A military intelligence service (later IDI), an internal security service (later ISA), and an intelligence service operating abroad (later Mossad).
This plan was implemented gradually. On 30 June 1948, the Haganah Information Service HQ, Shai, was disbanded, and the State of Israel’s intelligence services were established. In July 1949 , Reuven Shiloah, a Foreign Ministry man and a senior official in the political department, proposed establishing a central institution for coordinating intelligence activity. Ben Gurion approved the proposal, and on 13 December 1949, he announced the establishment of such a body under Reuven Shiloah. This date went down in history as the establishment date of the Mossad, which later became the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.
This coordination body was not involved in intelligence collection abroad (which was carried out at the time by a special department within the Foreign ministry – “Da’at”), until in early 1951, the decision was made to establish a central authority for collecting intelligence abroad, to be subordinate to the Mossad. This entity, known as the Reshut, was the main Mossad body in its early years, and it later became the Tzomet Division, specializing in recruiting and handling agents.
In 1952, Reuven Shiloah completed his term as Mossad Director, and was replaced by Isser Harel, who was previously head of Shin Bet, and was now placed in charge of both organizations. Harel served as Mossad Director until 1963. During his term, the Mossad grew from about 80 employees to over 620, expanded its activity, and performed a variety of intelligence collection and special operations tasks.
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