Posted on 09/19/2008 7:04:36 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
How the woman set to be Israel’s new leader earned her spurs as an agent working for a covert cell in an elite spy unit
It is an eye-catching episode on the CV of any would-be prime minister: a dangerous, youthful stint as a spy in one of the world’s most respected and feared secret services.
True to her training, Tzipi Livni, the Israeli leader-in-waiting, has maintained a Sphinx-like silence about her Mossad career in Paris in the early 1980s. Consequently, reports on her service have pegged her as anything from a frontline agent hunting down Arab terrorists across Europe to a mere house-sitter deployed to provide a respectable front for Mossad safe houses in the French capital.
Mossad does not divulge details but The Times can reveal that Ms Livni ran substantial risks as an Israeli agent operating in a covert cell in Europe.
“She was in an elite unit,” said Ephraim Halevy, the former director of Mossad, who for security reasons declined to specify which outfit Ms Livni had served in between 1980 and 1984.
“She was a very promising agent who showed all the attributes of a very promising career. She was very well thought of.”
Ms Livni, a fluent French speaker and daughter of renowned Zionist guerrillas, served her time in Paris when the city was a deadly battle-ground in Mossad’s covert war with Palestinian militant groups and Saddam Hussein’s nuclear ambitions.
One Israeli former intelligence source told The Times that the 22-year-old Ms Livni had been recruited into Mossad after her National Service by a childhood friend, Mira Gal, who herself served for two decades in the agency and who now works as her ministry bureau chief.
Like many recruits, the source said, she would have started out with so-called “student jobs”,
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The Sarah Palin of Israel?!;)
uhhh, ... no.
The London Times and most of its local readers want very much for her Party to remain in power and has published quite a few dishonest anti-Israel editorials (often in the guise of news).
She had a desk job. The Brits will pump her up no end in order to ensure Israel continues its suicidal “peace” efforts.
EVERYONE: Freep the Gretawire.com poll asking whether Todd Palin should honor the Witch-hunt subpoena issued against him! (HINT: “NO”) - Just takes ten seconds and a mouse click.
“She had a desk job.”
More like the Valerie Plame of Israel...Well she’s no Sarah Palin after all!
Like selling artwork to DEA agents.
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