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Unit 8200
As Israel was taking shape, and the IDF was forming, a new unit know as Unit 8200 was emerging. The 8200 was something known as a Signal intelligence unit, or sigint for short. As a sigint unit their main job was to collect intelligence on the enemy by use of electronic means, this includes activities…
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Mossad Formed
After the recent war in Palestine, in 1947, along with World War Two, and getting kicked out of 109 countries, the Jews knew that they needed their own form of an intelligence agency. They have the Shin Bet which deals with internal threats while the AMAN deals with military intelligence. The Mossad on the other…
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Operation Cast Thy Bread
During the early days of the Israeli Arabs conflict, Israel was quick to violate the 1925 with Operation Cast Thy Bread, where the IDF poisoned Arabs wells. Packets were put together by Haganah, of Typhoid bacteria. This was in an effort to make it difficult for the Arabs to retake their land, while also scaring…
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Nakba: Israel is Founded
After World War Two a new nation would be born, in Palestine, known as Israel. However, how the state of Israel. Many people attribute Israel to being needed because of the Holocaust or because of some religious text, but none of these make sense. Many groups had different size territories over history, and the Jews…
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Aradi’s Aiding
Aradia is given a secret task by the Americans, it is to inform all of his colleagues in the intelligence game that they were to go into hiding by January 15, 1947. The Americans were already requested by the Soviets to help them hunt for prisoners they wanted back, and while American never agreed or…
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Requesting Bandera Back
On October 15, 1946, Colonel-General P.A. Kurochkin, the deputy commander of the Soviet Military Administration, wrote to the Americans that they should arrest and return Stefan Bandera, to the Soviet Union to face punishment for his war crimes. Colonel-General Kurochkin was quoted in saying For these crimes committed against the Russian people, he should be…
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Almost Giving Up
American was learning that working with partisan groups in Ukraine were more difficult than they originally realize. They learned that to pull off such an operation would require a great deal of counterintelligence work, which would require a lot of resources which America wasn’t willing to use. They also did not understand how much the…
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More Problem with Bandera
After World War Two Stephan Bandera moved to West Germany, where he lived under protection from the Soviets, even though the Soviet Union asked for all of their known citizen, who were known for committing war crimes, to be sent back to the Soviet Union, so they could be tried and punished. The allies refused…
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The Deal with Ukrainians
By 1946, only a year after the end of World War Two, the American’s opinions on the Ukrainian partisan networks have change dramatically. They went from being viewed as unreliable and untrustworthy, to people they could be counted on to run spy operations. The Ukrainians were viewed as having a weird psychology, almost to that…
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Involving the Church
In October of 1946, a year before the CIA was founded, America was already planning their next foreign adventure. They wanted to contact Ukrainian partisan groups, but they knew it would be difficult. Ukraine wasn’t a country at the time, and the Ukraine hated both Poles and Russians. The only other country at the time…