A Mole in Shin Bet: Lucjan Levy and Polish HUMINT Operations in Israel, 1948–1967

Przemysław Gasztold

doi:10.1080/08850607.2021.2005996

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Title

A Mole in Shin Bet: Lucjan Levy and Polish HUMINT Operations in Israel, 1948–1967

Authors

Przemysław Gasztold (WBN) ^{[ 1 ][ 6.3 ][ P ]}

^{[ 1 ]} Instytut Teorii Bezpieczeństwa, Wydział Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego, Akademia Sztuki Wojennej | ^{[ P ]} employee

Scientific discipline (Law 2.0)

[6.3] Security studies

Year of publication

2022

Published in

International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Journal year: 2022 | Journal number: Article in press

Article type

scientific article

Publication language

english

Abstract

EN From the time of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, many Polish Jews emigrated there, seeking shelter in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the circumstances of growing anti-Semitic attitudes. Lucjan Levy/Levi was one such emigrant who left Poland and settled in Israel. He soon joined the Shin Bet counterintelligence service, even as he remained an asset for Polish intelligence, providing Warsaw (and the intelligence services elsewhere in Eastern Europe) with valuable information on Israeli counterintelligence activity. Now, drawing on recently declassified documents, the author reconstructs Levy’s intelligence performance while also examining his espionage career within the broader framework of human intelligence operations conducted by Poland’s Tel Aviv Station.

Pages (from - to)

211 - 239

DOI

10.1080/08850607.2021.2005996

URL

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08850607.2021.2005996

Comments

Publikacja będąca na zasadach tzw. Early Access, o statusie artykułu: Article in press.

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Release date

01.02.2022