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In fact. there have been serious blunders, such as the failure to anticipate the Egyptian- - Syrian surprise attack on Yom Kippur in 1973 and to understand the full fallout from the war in Lebanon in 1982. It was Rafael Eitan, a former Mossad master spy. moreover, who ran Jonathan Jay Pollard in Washington. Lately. the Mossad has also been in the news as a result of the Mordechai Vanunu affair. Vanunu, who had worked for ten years as a nuclear techni- cian at the Dimona reactor. sold secrets of Israel's alleged atomic weapons program to the London Sunday Times before disappearing. There is suspicion that he earlier had made some very sensitive in- formation available to Israeli communists and Arabs. magazine Newsweek reported that he had been kidnapped by Mossad agents and brought back to Israel. where he is now awaiting a secret trial. But the facts are unclear. After reporting how Vanunu was supposedly lured aboard a yacht by a woman and then apprehended by the Mossad crew in international waters, the magazine said, "But skeptics in Europe and the Mideast suspect the leak was actually orchestrated by the Mossad as a warning to hostile Islamic nations, par- ticularly Syria and Iran, that Israel's long-suspected nu- clear capabilities are real. In that case, Vanunu's case could quietly be dropped." This same skepticism was cited .in reports on the case published in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Is it possible? Did the Mossad organize the Vanunu affair? There is no doubt that this version of the events is possible. It has some sup- porters. But the real truth is still very much in doubt. What is clear is that in the aftermath of the Hindawi trial in London and the Vanunu affair, a new spate of Mossad-related stories can now be expected to surface in the international news media. The spotlight is once again on the Mossad. Major American news organizations, which were in- itially reluctant to follow up the original Sunday Times report on Vanunu's allega- tions, have now assigned _\