in Poland, a journalist named Viktor Grayevsky borrowed a copy from his girlfriend, who worked in the office of the First Secretary of the Polish Communist Party. Grayevsky, who was Jewish, had recently visited Israel and had decided to emigrate; he gave the speech to security officers at the Israeli embassy in Warsaw, and they in turn sent photographed copies to Harel in Tel Aviv. Harel shared the speech with his counterparts in other Western intelligence offices, most notably counterintelligence spymaster James Jesus Angleton of the American CIA. Harel was forced to resign from Mossad in March 1963, while conducting Operation Damocles, a covert operation to dissuade German rocket scientists from working for Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's heavy rocket program. The Mossad's tactics included sending mail bombs and arranging assassination attempts. Harel resigned in March 1963 after these tactics injured several people other than the scientists and seemed to be ineffective in preventing their cooperation with the Egyptians. Political career After leaving Mossad, Harel turned to politics. He joined David Ben-Gurion's newly created National List prior to the 1969 elections, and was elected to the Knesset as the party won four seats. However, after Ben-Gurion resigned from the party it began to disintegrate, with two of the MKs defecting to Likud and the other to the Alignment. As a result, Harel lost his seat in the 1973 elections. Published works The Great Deceit: a Political Novel (1971) Jihad (1972) The House on Garibaldi Street (1975) The Anatomy of Treason (1980) Operation Yossele (1982) The Crisis of the German Scientists (1982) Brother Against Brother: the Authorized Comprehensive Analyses of the Lavon Affair (1982) The Truth About the Kastner Murder (1985) Soviet Espionage (1987) Security and Democracy (1989) References External links 1912 births 2003 deaths Belarusian Jews Directors of the Mossad Directors of the Shin Bet Israeli people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Members of the 7th Knesset (1969–1974) Movement for Greater Israel politicians National List politicians Soviet emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at Yarkon Cemetery Adolf Eichmann