A Lesson Not Learned
So apparently Simon Wiesenthal was also a Mossad agent.
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals, was seen all his life as a one-man organization. But now, documents from his estate show he was a Mossad agent.
A new book by Tom Segev, to be published on Thursday, reveals that the Mossad supported Wiesenthal – and also shows that Israel did more to capture Nazi war criminals than was previously known.
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Wiesenthal started working for the Mossad after Eichmann’s capture and continued doing so for about 10 years. His main job was to trace Nazi criminals, but he also provided his operators with information about German missile scientists and engineers working in Egypt.
The Mossad financed the establishment of Wiesenthal’s office in Vienna and paid him some $300 a month in cash as wages.
Good on him.
Meanwhile, if you go this Telegraph article dealing with the book and its revelations, you will see that despite Wiesenthal’s great work in tracking down Nazi criminal’s, their views live on.
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I'll be curious to see Segev's treatment of the matter.
From what I've read of his work in the past I'm not sure if he won't try to paint any relationship with Mossad in a negative light. Also, to say that he was an agent, and to say that he had a relationship with them due to his existing work in investigating Nazi criminals are two different things.
What is wrong with being a mossad agent? Surely its no different than being a IDF agent?
This is something negative? Although given what was discussed here on the New Historians, I would question anything he writes,
This is much ado about nothing. First of all, I'd like a definition of "agent" here. Apparently he supplied Mossad with information. Okay, great! I applaud him! Does that make him an "agent" of the Mossad? Does that mean that if I call the police, the FBI, the CIA, etc. that I'm their agent now?
Even taking this further, apparently he was given something like $300 a month retainer by Mossad. Again, that doesn't mean much. Organizations retain help, hire experts, and offer rewards all the time. Again, does that make all these people agents?
At the end of the day, this sounds alot like someone is trying to smear Wiesenthal's name in a very subtle way. The problem is that there isn't much of any smoke here, let alone a fire….
Oh, and those little anti-Semitic bastards above…. why can't we just put them all in one place and just fence it off…. we'll call it: "The Muslim World"
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