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There is a wealth of detail strutted by the Mossad to
Toronto — George Jonas, including first-person ac-
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a Hungarian-born, Cana- counts. Jonas indicates that in the Jonas volume which return to service, otherwise
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dian writer who writes a Israel's campaign to elimi- bespeaks either bona fide he risks having his child
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regular column for Toronto nate PLO members respon- information or some ex- kidnapped. Avner's re-
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both novels and works of took many years and cost Jonas' interlocutor told him and takes place at the Is-
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raeli
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non-fiction, has become the more than $10 million. Ac- that Israel's intelligence
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center of a publishing con- cording to the author, community uses Beretta York. Jonas insists that his
troversy in Canada. Jonas Avner had large amounts of pistols because they are un- new book is a true account of
claims in his book, Ven- cash made available to him obtrusive and do their jobs how Israel took vengeance
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geance (Simon and Schus- through several Swiss effectively. He also told the on those who planned the
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1972
Munich
massacre.
author
that
the
Mossad
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ter), that the work is based banks and that money was
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on conversations he had, spent lavishly to infiltrate fanatically concerned with Copyright 1984, JTA Inc.
over a two-year period, with European radical organiza- receipts and that all money
a man he firmly believes to tions in order to obtain in- spent by agents on assign-
have been the head of the formation about the PLO ments had to be actuarially
accounted for.
Israeli anti-terrorist squad targets.
Among the revelations in
The fact that a large
which the Mossad set up in
1972 after the murder of 11 number of PLO agents in the volume is the claim by
Israeli athletes at the Europe began to be hunted Avner that a number of Is-
raeli agents themselves
Olympic Games in Munich.
were victimized by the PLO
Parts of his book were
during the hunt. One of the
published in England ear-
most tragic losses occurred
lier this year but a Cana- "Vengeance" by
through the imprudent
dian magazine, Maclean's
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trust which one of the
which was supposed to pub- George Jonas,
agents gave to a Dutch pros-
lish extracts as well, de- published by
titute who turned out to be a
cided not to go ahead with
contract killer for the PLO.
publication on the grounds Simon and
Another agent was found
that there were doubts Schuster.
stabbed to death under cir-
about the book's. authentic-
cumstances that neither
ity.
Avner nor his team could
Interviewed on Canadian
radio and television, Jonas down and killed in Europe explain.
In his recapitulation,
— who describes himself as within months of the
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a Jew sympatheticto Israel, Munich massace is well Jonas quotes Avner's de-
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LU
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that Avner, the fictitious book goes beyond the news- were used by the team to
name which he gives to the paper stories to flesh out de- kill targets in Rome and
head of the "hit team," told tails that never made it to elsewhere. Remote con-
trolled devices were appar-
him the truth about the top the world press.
Jonas indicates that the ently the favorite weapon
secret operation. The
author admits both in the Israeli hit team obtained used by the squad. During
preface and the epilogue to some of its information one harrowing experience
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his work that for reasons about the whereabouts of in Nicosia, however, an exp-
which are obvious he had to PLO operatives by infiltrat- losive failed to detonate at
change certain details ing the Baader-Meinhof the appointed moment and
about the personal lives of terrorist gang in West Ger- an agent had to personally
the people described in his many. Avner, the young move in to detonate it.
At the end of his book,
narrative. Jonas' critics Sabra in charge of the oper-
have pointed out that it is ation, had spent time in Jonas has Avner leaving
impossible to know where Germany as a youth and the Israeli anti-terrorist
those liberties have been had become close to an indi- squad for a number of com-
taken and that therefore the vidual who later become a plex family and personal
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whole book is under a cloud member of the radical Ger- reasons. In Jonas' scenario,
however, Avner is in-
man group.
of suspicion.
MANY, MANY MORE SPECIALS
The book, published in
Canada by Lester Orpen
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Denys and Collins has an
unusual aspect to it: it has
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received advanced royalties
from a host of international
publishers in a magnitude
virtually unheard of in
Canada.
Jerusalem (JTA) — The found.
Jonas' book purports to be
The families of the dead
an account of how Israel's families of four young Arab hijackers, all residents of
Mossad, at the behest of bus hijackers killed April 13 the Gaza Strip, claim that
Golda Meir, set up a com- have appealed to the Israel the edited version of the
pletely independent anti- Supreme Court to fprce the Zorea report which was
terrorist squad to eliminate Defense Ministry to release made public concealed the
11 PLO operatives who had the full text of the official full circumstances of the in-
. masterminded the Munich inquiry into the incident.
The inquiry was con- cident. They also contend
massacre. In his version,
that the Defense Minister's
Jonas has Avner attending ducted by a panel headed by "behavior" raised suspi-
a special meeting at Meir's Maj. Gen. (res.) Meir Zorea cions that the investigation
home where the Prime who was appointed by De- was intended to
Minister served her assem- fense Minister Moshe Arens "whitewash" the truth in
bled guests, including Ariel for the task. It confirmed order to defuse local criti-
Sharon, pieces of an apple. media reports that two of cism and protect Israel's
(Sharon has subsequently the four hijackers were image abroad.
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denied that any such meet- taken alive after Israeli
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dead youths has also de-
Avner's story is recapitu- free its passengers. The two manded an official investi-
were
beaten
to
death
by
Is-
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lated by Jonas in a series of
gation of reports that his
novelistic techniques using raeli securitymen while un- son's body was mutilated
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