Mike Harari

From Powerbase
Jump to: navigation, search

Mike Harari is a former senior Mossad officer.

As head of the Caesarea Division in 1972, Harari was charged by Mossad head Zvi Zamir to carry out a campaign of killings against those responsible for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.[1]

He later became the Mossad station chief in Mexico City. In this role he developed links with the then Panamanian dictator, General Omar Torrijos and his head of military intelligence, Manuel Noriega. After leaving Mossad in 1980, he remained close Noriega, until he left Panama in 1989 during the US invasion.[2]

External resources

Notes

  1. Yossi Melman, Targeted killings - a retro fashion very much in vogue, Haaretz, 24 March 2004.
  2. Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, Every Spy a Prince: The Secret History of Israel's Intelligence Community, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, pp.351-352.