For years, Wadie Haddad was one of Israel’s most wanted enemies. A founding member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Haddad was widely considered the mastermind behind a wave of international airline hijackings during the late 1960s and 1970s. His most notorious operation was the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight… Read More Mossad Assassinations – Deadly Toothpaste
Traditional assassination methods like motorcycle gunmen, planted explosives or close-range shooters were deemed too risky. Mossad planners concluded that the answer was to remove the assassin from the battlefield altogether. The Target Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and widely recognized as the head of Iran’s nuclear weapons… Read More Mossad Assassinations – AI, Robots & Iranian Nuclear Scientists
How do you find out if the field intelligence portrayed in espionage novels or spy movies is realistic?To find the answer, you need to look at what the characters are actually trying to achieve. That may sound obvious, but in my experience, as soon as words like surveillance, surveillance detection, and counter-surveillance enter the conversation,… Read More Surveillance, Surveillance Detection & Countersurveillance
My new international espionage thriller, GHOST ECHO, is out! Chock full of action, intrigue and twists, Ghost Echo introduces you to Mossad, Silicon Valley, Israel, Hezbollah, IDF, terrorists, Japan, martial arts, US, Russia and much more. Get it here Adam Toren escaped his violent past as a soldier in Israel and a Mossad operator in… Read More Ghost Echo
“When Imad Mughniyeh passed away, the sound of popping champagne bottles could be heard in many places around the world.” Said Gad Shimron, a former Mossad operative. “The Americans were looking for him, the French were looking for him, the Saudis were looking for him, the Egyptians were looking for him, the Kuwaitis were looking… Read More Mossad Assassinations – Imad Mughniyeh
On April 1st, 2024, at around 5:00 pm, a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus was hit by an airstrike. The four-story structure was completely destroyed, killing Mohammed Reza Zahedi, also known as Hassan Mahdawi, along with six other senior Iranian officials (including Mahdawi’s deputy).Iran has claimed that the building was brought down… Read More Mossad Assassinations – Damascus Airstrike
On January 3rd, 2024, Mossad chief, David Barnea spoke on the aftermath of the bloody October 7th massacre. “Today, we are in the height of a war, and the Mossad, as it was fifty years ago, is obligated to bring to account the murderers who raided into Israel on October 7th, along with their planners… Read More Mossad Assassinations
Our new Hostile Activity Prevention E-learning course is now live. This unique, three-hour course teaches actionable, time-tested methods of prevention, detection and disruption of hostile activity. Based on Israeli methodologies of terrorist activity prevention, adapted to fit most environments and risk levels, the training isn’t merely theoretical. It covers the actual methods we’ve been successfully… Read More Hostile Activity Prevention
“Intuition is always right in at least two important ways;It is always in response to something.it always has your best interest at heart”-Gavin De Becker. Quite a few years ago, I was working at a very prominent Jewish facility in the San Francisco Bay Area when I spotted a suspicious-looking man on the opposite side… Read More False-Positive
Let me give you a candid glimpse, taken from direct experience, into EP aspects you don’t usually hear much about. I’ll even go a step further and share a few photos I took on actual EP operations (all taken during breaks or down-times, I hasten to add), and show you a tiny bit of the… Read More Executive Protection
