Former Israeli spymaster who captured the SS officer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in a daring 1960 secret missionOn 11 May 1960 Israeli agents kidnapped a middle-aged man called Ricardo Klement while he was walking home from a bus pause in a suburb of Buenos Aires; Klement was bundled into a car and taken to a secure house,where he admitted that his real name was Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who played a main role in implementing Hitlers “final solution”.
In charge of the snatch squad was Rafi Eitan, or who was to become a main figure in Israel’s intelligence community. The capture of Eichmann and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem marked a noteworthy leap forward in popular understanding of the Holocaust.
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Source: theguardian.com