Operation Plumbat
Operation Plumbat was the name of a secret operation by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad .
After France stopped supplying uranium to Israel in 1962, Israel looked for alternative sources. In 1968 the Brussels company " Société Générale des Mineraux " bought around 200 tons of uranium oxide ( yellow cake ). On November 17, 1968, the uranium went on board the ship Scheersberg A in Antwerp to be shipped from there to Genoa . The Scheersberg A was delivered in December 1955 by the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg as Scheersberg to the Hamburg shipping company Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's successor . The new owner Dan Ert (alias Dan Aerbel) was arrested in 1973 in Norway during the Lillehammer affair and confessed to being a member of the Mossad.
On December 2, 1968, the Scheersberg A reappeared in the port of İskenderun , with no trace of the crew or the cargo.
According to EURATOM's knowledge , the cargo is said to have been transferred to an Israeli ship near Cyprus . Experts believe that the action was planned and carried out by the secret services Mossad and Lakam .
Fiction
The thriller -author Ken Follett has the real operation plumbat his novel as a template for a part of the action triple used (1979).
literature
- Paul Eddy, Elaine Davenport, Peter Gillman: Uranium for Israel. Secret Service Operation Scheersberg A. ISBN 3-8105-0504-8 . Original edition: The plumbat affair , Philadelphia, PA (Lippincott) 1978, ISBN 0-397-01248-9 . ( Online version )
- Time Magazine: Uranium: The Israeli Connection , Vol. 109 No. 22, May 30, 1977. ( online version )
- Mirror series The secret of the “Scheersberg”. (3 parts)
- The Scheersberg's secret . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1978, pp. 110 ( online ).
- The Scheersberg's secret . In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1978, p. 134 ( online ).
- The Scheersberg's secret . In: Der Spiegel . No. 35 , 1978, pp. 136 ( online ).
- Uranium ship. Dirty Tricks , in: Der Spiegel , No. 20 BC. May 9, 1977, pp. 128f. ( Online version )
- Uranium ship. Levantine lord. The uranium voyage of the motor ship "Scheersberg" was not the only mysterious voyage of the German freighter , in: Der Spiegel No. 21 of May 16, 1977
- Someone is sure to lie , in: Die Zeit , No. 23 of June 3, 1977 [1]
- Brief note about the delivery of the Scheersberg ; Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 28, 1955.
- Time mirror. Pirate piece , in: Die Zeit of June 30, 1978
- Rainer Frenkel: ... what happened to the "Scheersberg A". Uranium business 1968: Germans deny everything , in: Die Zeit vom May 20, 1977
- Klaus Mommsen: Chel ha'yam: 60 years of the Israeli Navy , Bonn (Bernard & Graefe) 2009. ISBN 978-3-7637-6281-1
- Brian Harring: DIMONA and Other Secrets: Israel's Atomic bomb programs ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), at Tbrnews.org
- Thomas Scheuer: Nukem and the Plumbat Affair. 20 years after the mysterious diversion of 200 tons of natural uranium to Israel, new information is now being released: According to this, the federal government knew about the operation of the Mossad secret service / Silence with regard to Israel / Nukem was already in business at the time , in: taz of May 5th 1988, p. 9
Film adaptations
- Fire dragons , 2 parts, DFF 1981.