Newly declassified documents reveal a covert collaboration between western intelligence agencies and Israel's Mossad during the early 1970s, which enabled the assassination of Palestinians linked to terrorism. This collaboration emerged following the 1972 Munich Olympic attack and occurred without governmental oversight. Evidence found in Swiss archives from operational cables showed the sharing of intricate intelligence about safe houses and individual movements. The operations, known as Operation Wrath of God, resulted in the death of several Palestinians across Europe and sparked significant moral and legal questions surrounding state-sponsored assassinations.
The support was offered without any oversight by parliaments or elected politicians, and, if not actually illegal, would have caused a public scandal.
Israel's assassination campaign, conducted by the Mossad, followed the attack by armed Palestinian militants on the Olympic Games in Munich in September 1972.
Evidence of support from western intelligence services for the Israeli mission was discovered in encrypted cables found in Swiss archives by Dr Aviva Guttmann.
The cables circulated raw intelligence with details of safe houses and vehicles, the movements of key individuals seen as dangerous, and analysis.
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