Cheryl Ben Tov

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Cheryl Ben Tov (also Bentov, Hebrew שריל בנטוב; * 1960 as Cheryl Hanin ) is a retired American real estate agent and former Israeli Mossad agent.

Life

Ben Tov grew up near Orlando , Florida , where her father Stanley Hanin founded Allied Discount Tires . In 1977 she moved to Israel to study Hebrew and Jewish history for a semester. She returned to the United States that same year. After graduating in 1978, she joined the Israeli army. In 1985 she married Ofer Ben Tov, an Israeli intelligence officer, who introduced her to the Mossad, where she was educated and trained.

In 1986, she was known by her pseudonym "Cindy" when they in London on the Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu had been scheduled after this information and pictures from the secret and then officially nonexistent Israeli nuclear facility in Dimona the British Sunday Times have had to come . The Sunday Times published this information on October 5, 1986, exposing Israel as a nuclear power . Ben Tov succeeded in winning Vanunu's trust and luring him on September 30, 1986 to Rome on a short vacation , where he was overpowered by Mossad agents, drugged and taken to Israel by sea. There he was sentenced on March 24, 1988 for treason to 18 years in prison, of which he had to spend at least 11 years in solitary confinement.

Under her maiden name Cheryl Hanin, she lives with her husband and two daughters again near Orlando, where she worked as a real estate agent. At the same time, she still owns a house in Israel.

Although she does not deny her Mossad role at the time as "Cindy", Vanunu said after his release in 2004 that he still couldn't believe that "Cindy" was a Mossad agent.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Allison Kaplan Sommer: Cindy Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( en ) Jerusalem Post. April 7, 1997. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Susan Taylor Martin: The Spy - And the Man She Busted ( en ) St. Petersburg Times Online. March 21, 2004. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c Uzi Mahnaimi: The Girl Who Trapped Vanunu ( en ) Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  4. ^ A b Phillip Knightley: The History of the Honey Trap ( en ) Foreign Policy. March 12, 2010. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  5. ↑ From Carl von Ossietzky to Mordechai Vanunu - verification by civil society (“societal verification”) or a punishable betrayal of state secrets? (PDF) International Association Of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA). Archived from the original on August 27, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  6. ^ Appeal in favor of Mordechai Vanunu . Association of German Scientists (VDW). Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  7. ↑ Ian Mckinnon: Vanunu 'honeytrap' spy seeks quiet life in Florida ( en ) Times Newspapers. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Ben Tov, Cheryl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanin, Cheryl (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American real estate agent, former Israeli Mossad agent
DATE OF BIRTH 1960