The ENTIRE History of MOSSAD in 16 Minutes

It is May 11th, 1960 at 5 minutes past 8 in the evening on Garibaldi Street in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A cold autumn rain falls on an unpaved road. Bus number 203 stops at the corner. A man in a heavy trench coat steps down into the mud and clicks on a flashlight. Halfway down the block, a black Buick sedan

waits with its hood propped open. As the man walks past, four operatives lunge from the shadows and tackle him into the ditch. Before he can bite down on the cyanide capsule hidden inside his tooth, a gloved hand forces his jaw open. Inside the backseat, they strip off his glasses and inspect the scar beneath his left

armpit. The prisoner whispers in German, "Ich bin Adolf Eichmann." And the men who have just captured him 7,500 miles from home belong to an agency that, on paper, does not even exist. The Mossad. 11 years earlier, on December 13th, 1949, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion sits at a desk in Tel Aviv and signs a one-page

letter. The new state of Israel is 19 months old and surrounded by hostile armies. Ben-Gurion creates the Institute for Coordination, known in Hebrew as Ha Mossad. He appoints his quiet advisor Reuven Shiloah as its first director with a starting budget of just 20,000 pounds. There is no headquarters building, no academy, and no public law.

In September 1952, power passes to Isser Harel. Nicknamed Little Isser, he stands barely 4 feet 10 inches tall. He runs the entire foreign intelligence service out of a cramped three-room apartment in Tel Aviv. Harel brews tea for his 12 employees on a single gas burner and locks the agency's cash inside a green metal safe behind

his desk. Yet little Isser understands one rule. Israel has no allies sharing secrets. To survive, his agents must sit inside the enemy's room themselves. The first breakthrough begins in February 1956 in Warsaw. In Moscow, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivers a secret 4-hour speech inside the Kremlin condemning the crimes of Josef Stalin. The CIA in Washington offers a