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The opening frames the Israeli intelligence system as protected by law, military censorship, and legal pressure on journalists, while explaining how the author’s efforts to access archives were resisted and extended further through changes to secrecy rules. It also describes attempts to disrupt research, prosecute the author, and impose media wording about “foreign publications.”","Copyright © 2018 by Ronen Bergman  \nAll rights reserved.  \nPublished in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC,  \nNew York.  \nRANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.  \nHardback ISBN 9781400069712  \nEbook ISBN 9780679604686  \n[randomhousebooks.com](randomhousebooks.com)  \nBook design by Debbie Glasserman, adapted for ebook  \nCover design: Pete Garceau  \nv5.1  \nep  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page Copyright Epigraph  \nA Note on the Sources  \nPrologue  \nChapter 1 : In Blood and Fire  \nChapter 2 : A Secret World Is Born  \nChapter 3: The Bureau for Arranging Meetings with God  \nChapter 4: The Entire Supreme Command, with One Blow  \nChapter 5: “As If the Sky Were Falling on Our Heads”  \nChapter 6: A Series of Catastrophes  \nChapter 7: “Armed Struggle Is the Only Way to Liberate Palestine”  \nChapter 8: Meir Dagan and His Expertise  \nChapter 9 : The PLO Goes International  \nChapter 10: “I Have No Problem with Anyone That I’ve Killed”  \nChapter 11: “Wrong Identification of a Target Is Not a Failure. It’s a Mistake.”  \nChapter 12: Hubris  \nChapter 13: Death in the Toothpaste  \nChapter 14: A Pack of Wild Dogs  \nChapter 15: “Abu Nidal, Abu Shmidal”  \nChapter 16: Black Flag  \nChapter 17: The Shin Bet Coup  \nChapter 18: Then Came a Spark  \nChapter 19: Intifada  \nChapter 20: Nebuchadnezzar  \nChapter 21: Green Storm Rising  \nChapter 22: The Age of the Drone  \nChapter 23: Mughniyeh’s Revenge  \nChapter 24: “Just One Switch, Off and On”  \nChapter 25: “Bring Us the Head of Ayyash”  \nChapter 26: “Sly as a Snake, Naïve as a Little Child”  \nChapter 27: A Low Point  \nChapter 28: All-Out War  \nChapter 29: “More Suicide Bombers Than Explosive Vests”  \nChapter 30: “The Target Has Been Eliminated, but the Operation Failed”  \nChapter 31: The Rebellion in Unit 8200  \nChapter 32: Picking Anemones  \nChapter 33: The Radical Front  \nChapter 34: Killing Maurice  \nChapter 35: Impressive Tactical Success, Disastrous Strategic Failure  \nPhoto Insert Dedication Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Other Titles About the Author  \nIf someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.  \nTHE BABYLONIAN TALMUD, TRACTATE SANHEDRIN, PORTION 72 , VERSE 1  \nTHE ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY guards its secrets jealously. Its near-total opacity is protected by a complex array of laws and protocols, strict military censorship, and the intimidation, interrogation, and prosecution of journalists and their sources, as well as a natural solidarity and loyalty among the espionage agencies’ personnel.  \nAll glimpses behind the scenes have, to this day, been partial at best.  \nHow then, it might reasonably be asked, to write a book about one of the most secretive organizations on earth?  \nEfforts to persuade the Israeli defense establishment to cooperate with the research for this project went nowhere. Requests to the intelligence community that it comply with the law by transferring its historical documents to the State Archive and allowing publication of materials fifty years old or more were met with stony silence. A petition to the Supreme Court for an order forcing compliance with the law was dragged out over years, with the complicity of the court, and ended with nothing but an amendment to the law itself: The secrecy provisions were extended from fifty to seventy years, longer than the history of the state.  \nThe defense establishment did not merely sit with folded arms. As early as 2010, before the contract for this book was even signed, a special meeting was held in the Mossad’s operations division, Caesarea, to discuss ways of disrupting my research. Letters were written to all former Mossad employees warning them against giving interviews, and individual conversations were held with certain exstaffers who were considered the most problematic. Later in 2011, the chief of the General Staff of the IDF, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, asked the Shin Betto take aggressive step","cbCaicPQjcMkmpCK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicPQjcMkmpCK","pdf",10811197,1,763,"English","en",105,"# Prologue\n## A Note on the Sources\n# Chapter 1 : In Blood and Fire\n# Chapter 2 : A Secret World Is Born\n# Chapter 3: The Bureau for Arranging Meetings with God\n# Chapter 4: The Entire Supreme Command, with One Blow\n# Chapter 5: “As If the Sky Were Falling on Our Heads”\n# Chapter 6: A Series of Catastrophes\n# Chapter 7: “Armed Struggle Is the Only Way to Liberate Palestine”\n# Chapter 8: Meir Dagan and His Expertise\n# Chapter 9 : The PLO Goes International\n# Chapter 10: “I Have No Problem with Anyone That I’ve Killed”\n# A Note on the Sources\n# Notes\n# Bibliography","[{\"question\":\"Why was accessing historical documents difficult for the project behind the book?\",\"answer\":\"Requests for intelligence materials and permission to publish 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