Kidon
Kidon ( Hebrew כידון Bayonet or spearhead ) is a special division of the Israeli secret service Mossad . It carries out assassinations with the highest level of secrecy.
Kidon emerged from the Mossad special unit Caesarea , which was tasked with liquidating the hostage-takers and the people behind the hostage-taking in Munich in 1972.
Kidon intended for information magazine Spiegel and the assassination of the Hamas -Funktionär Mahmoud al-Mabhouh have completed in January of 2010.
literature
- Victor Ostrovsky : By Way of Deception-The making and unmaking of a Mossad Officer. St. Martin's Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-9717595-0-2 .
- Gordon Thomas : Robert Maxwell , Israel's Superspy. The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul. Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7867-1295-3 .