Fact check
Is it true: Eichmann's capture: Mossad operation and West German prior-knowledge cover-up (1960)?
Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.
The Mossad capture operation is fully documented. CIA and BND files declassified from 2006 onward confirm both agencies had located Eichmann in Argentina years before the 1960 Mossad operation and chose not to act. The BND's inaction is linked to former SS officers in its leadership with personal reasons to suppress Eichmann's location. The prior-knowledge cover-up element is substantially confirmed by the declassified record.
The claim
Adolf Eichmann, the SS-Obersturmbannführer who administered the logistics of the Holocaust, was captured by a Mossad team led by Isser Harel in Buenos Aires on 11 May 1960. He was transported to Israe
Key evidence
CIA files confirm prior knowledge of Eichmann's Argentina location
Mossad capture operation fully documented by participants
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