New Book: Nazi-Hunting Wiesenthal Was Mossad Agent
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who dedicated his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals, was seen all his life as a one-man organization. But now, documents from his estate show he was a Mossad agent.
A new book by Tom Segev, to be published on Thursday, reveals that the Mossad supported Wiesenthal – and also shows that Israel did more to capture Nazi war criminals than was previously known.
The book, “Wiesenthal – the Biography” (published by Keter ), reveals that a 1948 Israeli operation to capture Adolf Eichmann in Austria failed.
Wiesenthal, whose efforts to trace war criminals and bring them to justice won him world acclaim, died five years ago in his Vienna home, aged 97.
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