Yehuda Gil was one of the greatest spies the Mossad had ever seen. He hunted down and executed members of the terrorist group Black September after the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972. Then he was charged with fabricating the intelligence that had brought Israel to the brink of war with Syria in 1996. His is the story of what some call a sociopathic “evil genius.”
From the Atavist Magazine:
... No one could be sure why Gil had committed the crimes he'd committed. Or even what, exactly, those crimes were, though their consequences were severe. He had profoundly damaged the international credibility of the Mossad, whose false information—going back how long, no one was quite sure—had been shared with the major intelligence agencies of the Western world. He had put Israeli lives at terrible risk. He had even endangered his own family. One of Gil's colleagues told me that Gil's son was a paratrooper stationed at the Syrian front on that September day when the Israeli military prepared for war. “What kind of person is he,” the man said, “that he would risk the life of his own child?”
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