Gideon's Spies

Dry cleaning Various techniques to avoid surveillance

ECM Electronic countermeasure

EDP Electronic data processing

Elint Electronic intelligence intercepted from radar, satellites

Exfiltrate Removing an agent from hostile country

Falach Agent working in Lebanon

FACES Facial Analysis Comparison and Elimination System

False flagging Recruiting a person who believes he or she will be working for another country or interest

Fumigate Sweeping an area for electronic bugs

Go-away Prearranged signal not to make contact at previously arranged rendezvous

Grinder Debriefing room, also used to interrogate suspects

Honey trap Sexual entrapment for intelligence purposes

Humint Intelligence gathered by agents in the field

IDA Intelligence database

IED Improvised explosive device

IFF Identification, friend or foe

II Image identification

Institute Formal name of Mossad—Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations; originally called Institute for Coordination

IR Infrared

ISA Intelligence support activity

JIL Joint Intelligence Center

Jumper Agent working overseas on short-term assignment

Katsa Case officer

Kidon Operative specializing in assassination

LAKAM Intelligence agency gathering scientific data

Legend Bogus biography for katsa

LAP Department of Psychological Warfare

Light cover Katsa working under diplomatic cover

Loot Intelligence gathered from operations

Mabuah A non-Jewish informer

Measles Assassination that appears to stem from natural causes

Meluckha Recruiting department

Memune Title given to director general of Mossad

Miketel Bug for intercepting/recording telephone calls

Mishlashim Dead letter box; a secure place for an agent to receive or drop off information

Music box Radio transmitter

Naka Writing system

Nativ Agent working in former Soviet Union

Neviot Surveillance specialist

NHITC National Human Intelligence Tasking Center

NIC National Intelligence Center

NSA National Security Agency

NSTL National security threat list

OAU Organization of African Unity

Oter Arab recruited to work with other Arabs

PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PLF Palestine Liberation Front

PLO Palestine Liberation Organization

Photint Photographic intelligence

PROD Technique for retrieving photographs from optical disc

Radint Radar intelligence

Reg-sig Recognition signal for katsa to make contact with field agent in public place

RAF Red Army Faction (Germany)

Safanim Unit to target PLO

Safe house Apartment or house used for secret meetings or as an operations base

Shicklut Surveillance department

SleeperKatsa/agent to be called upon in only the most dire circumstances

Slick Hiding place for documents

Target Intelligence assignment

Teud Forged document

Telint Telemetry intelligence

Vacuamer Agent who provides details of all aspects of a target

Walk-in Person who volunteers to serve

Wash Recycling of a valid passport obtained by theft or purchased

Yahalomin Special communications unit

MOSSAD DIRECTORS GENERAL

1951–1952 REUVEN SHILOAH

1952–1963 ISSER HAREL

1963–1968 MEIR AMIT

1968–1974 ZVI ZAMIR

1974–1982 YITZHAK HOFI

1982–1990 NAHUM ADMONI

1990–1996 SHABTAI SHAVIT

1996–1998 DANNY YATOM

1998–2002 EFRAIM HALEVY

2002– MEIR DAGAN

ALSO BY GORDON THOMAS

Nonfiction

DESCENT INTO DANGER

BED OF NAILS

PHYSICIAN EXTRAORDINARY

HEROES OF THE R.A.F.

THEY GOT BACK

MIRACLE OF SURGERY

THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE AND YOU

THAMES NUMBER ONE

MIDNIGHT TRADERS

THE PARENTS’ HOME DOCTOR (with Ian D. Hudson and Vincent Pippet)

TURN BY THE WINDOW (with Ronald Hutchinson)

ISSELS: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DOCTOR

THE DAY THE WORLD ENDED (with Max Morgan-Witts)

EARTHQUAKE (with Max Morgan-Witts)

SHIPWRECK (with Max Morgan-Witts)

VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED (with Max Morgan-Witts)

THE DAY GUERNICA DIED (with Max Morgan-Witts)

ENOLA GAY/RUIN FROM THE AIR (with Max Morgan-Witts)

THE DAY THE BUBBLE BURST (with Max Morgan-Witts)

TRAUMA (with Max Morgan-Witts)

PONTIFF (with Max Morgan-Witts)

THE YEAR OF ARMAGEDDON (with Max Morgan-Witts)

THE OPERATION

DESIRE AND DENIAL

THE TRIAL: THE LIFE AND INEVITABLE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS

JOURNEY INTO MADNESS

ENSLAVED

CHAOS UNDER HEAVEN

TRESPASS INTO TEMPTATION

MAGDALENE: THE WOMAN WHO LOVED JESUS

THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT MAXWELL: ISRAEL’S

SUPERSPY (with Martin Dillan)

THE SECRET ARMIES OF THE CIA

Fiction

THE CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND

TORPEDO RUN

DEADLY PERFUME

GODLESS ICON

VOICES IN THE SILENCE