title: Soldier Spies: Israeli Military Intelligence
author:  Samuel M. Katz 
description: After its brilliant successes in the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition and the campaign against Black September, A'MAN, Israel's oldest intelligence agency, fell prey to institutional hubris. A'MAN's dangerous overconfidence only deepened, Katz here reveals, after spectacular coups such as its taping of a stragetic phone conference between Egypt's President Nasser and Jordan's King Hussein, and individual A'MAN exploits such as agent Eli Cohen's masquerade in Syria as an Arab, during which he gathered information used to great advantage during the Six-Day War. A'MAN's great crisis was the surprise Arab attack initiating the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Katz describes the agency's vital role in the close victory over Egypt and Syria, its reorganization, and its participation in subsequent operations, including the 1982 invasion of Lebanon. A'MAN's importance to the security of Israel was highlighted in the summer of 1990, when the intelligence corps officially became the Israel Defense Force's fourth branch of service, joining the army, navy and air force. The book is a soundly researched review by a former member of the IDF. Photos. <BR>Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: ISRAELI MILITARY 
  Hi 
  
  Military History—Middle East 
  ISBN: 0-89141-357-X $21.95 
  SOLDIER 
  SPIES 
  ISRAELI MILITARY 
  INTELLIGENCE 
  SAMUEL M. KATZ 
  The shadowy darkness of intelligence 
  warfare has long been an Israeli domain. 
  History’s tragic saga teaches Israel to dis¬ 
  trust the outside world: forever facing an 
  overwhelming enemy, Israel has relied on 
  the cunning, and sometimes the ruthless¬ 
  ness, of her covert warriors. Israel’s for¬ 
  eign espionage service, the MOSSAD, and 
  her counterintelligence service, the SHIN 
  BET, have achieved international respect 
  with their counterespionage and antiter¬ 
  rorist operations. Yet little is known about 
  Israel’s oldest, largest, and most crucial 
  intelligence-gathering body, the Israel 
  Defense Forces Intelligence Branch, the 
  A’MAN, which is responsible for gather¬ 
  ing, analyzing, and implementing all “mili¬ 
  tary intelligence.” 
  The heritage of the Intelligence Corps 
  dates back to the 1930s, and its history is a 
  continued on back flap