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Morroco became the fourth country since August to establish ties with Israel. A lesser known fact is their secret relationship with Israel which goes back to the 1960s. While reading Bergman's “Rise and Kill First”, I came across some astonishing facts.
Here's a quick summary:
Here's a quick summary:
Meir Amit served as the Chief Director and the head of global operations for Mossad from 1963 to 1968. His first objective was to establish a single operations division in Mossad, which would bring all of the units dealing with sabotage, targeted killings, and espionage...
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![Meir Amit served as the Chief Director and the head of global operations for Mossad from 1963 to 1968. His first objective was to establish a single operations division in Mossad, which would bring all of the units dealing with sabotage, targeted killings, and espionage...[1]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqBI5ZDXMAM8bMr.jpg "Meir Amit served as the Chief Director and the head of global operations for Mossad from 1963 to 1968. His first objective was to establish a single operations division in Mossad, which would bring all of the units dealing with sabotage, targeted killings, and espionage...[1]")
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..in Arab countries under one umbrella.The Mossad chief named that division Caesarea, after the Roman city on the Mediterranean coast, keeping in view their veneration for ancient jewish history. The network of Caesarea activities outside of Israel was code named the Senate.
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Amit had assiduously cultivated Israel’s secret relations with Morocco, in line with the “periphery doctrine.” Though Morocco was an Arab country, in close contact with Israel’s main enemies, it also was moderate and had no territorial dispute with Israel.
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Morocco's leader was the relatively pro-Western King Hassan II. Morocco received valuable intelligence and technological assistance from Israel, and, in exchange, Hassan allowed Morocco’s Jews to immigrate to Israel, and Mossad received the right to establish a permanent...
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![Morocco's leader was the relatively pro-Western King Hassan II. Morocco received valuable intelligence and technological assistance from Israel, and, in exchange, Hassan allowed Morocco’s Jews to immigrate to Israel, and Mossad received the right to establish a permanent...[4]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqBKKuqXEAAjWfk.jpg "Morocco's leader was the relatively pro-Western King Hassan II. Morocco received valuable intelligence and technological assistance from Israel, and, in exchange, Hassan allowed Morocco’s Jews to immigrate to Israel, and Mossad received the right to establish a permanent...[4]")
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..station in the capital, Rabat, from which it could spy on Arab countries. The height of cooperation came in Sept 1965, when the king allowed a Mossad team led by Zvi Malchin and Rafi Eitan to bug all meeting rooms and private suites of the leaders of the Arab states...
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and their military commanders during an Arab summit in Casablanca. The purpose of the summit was to discuss the establishment of a joint common Arab command in future wars with Israel. But King Hassan’s relations with some of the other Arab rulers were precarious and he...
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..feared that some of them were acting to depose him, so he let the Mossad listen in. This gave Israel an unprecedented glimpse of the military and intelligence secrets of its greatest enemies, and of the mindsets of those countries’ leaders.
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At that summit, commanders of the Arab armies reported that their forces were not prepared for a new war against Israel, information that was the basis of the Israeli military’s supreme confidence when they urged PM Eshkol to go to war two years later, in June 1967.
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“This sensational material,” a Mossad report stated, “was one of the highlights of the achievements of Israeli intelligence since its foundation. These successful operations provided the @IDF with the critical intelligence it needed to prepare for the next war.
