{"id":13848,"date":"2016-03-30T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13848"},"modified":"2016-03-30T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T13:57:20","slug":"espionage-files-decorated-ss-commander-was-a-mossad-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/espionage-files-decorated-ss-commander-was-a-mossad-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: Decorated SS Commander was a Mossad Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA notorious lieutenant colonel in the Waffen SS, who served in Adolf Hitler\u2019s personal bodyguard unit, worked as a hitman for the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad after World War II, it has been revealed. Austrian-born Otto Skorzeny became known as the most ruthless special-forces commander in the Third Reich. Having joined the Austrian branch of the National Socialist German Workers\u2019 Party at 19, at age 23 Skorzeny began serving in the Waffen SS, Nazi Germany\u2019s conscript army that consisted largely of foreign-born fighters. In 1943, Hitler himself decorated Skorzeny with the Knight\u2019s Cross of the Iron Cross, in recognition of his leadership in Operation EICHE, the rescue by German commandos of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who had been imprisoned at a ski resort in the Apennine Mountains following a coup against his government.<\/p>\n

Skorzeny survived the war and ended up living in Spain under the protection of the country\u2019s far-right dictator, Francisco Franco. The Mossad, Israel\u2019s covert-action agency, which had made it a priority to arrest or kill senior Nazis who had survived the war, intended to kill Skorzeny. However, two veteran Israeli intelligence observers, Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, revealed<\/a> on Sunday that, instead of killing Skorzeny, the Mossad decided to recruit him. Based on \u201cinterviews with former Mossad officers and with Israelis who have access to the Mossad\u2019s archived secrets\u201d, Raviv and Melman allege that Isser Harel, who directed the Mossad from 1952 to 1963, decided that the former Waffen SS commander would be a useful asset against other Nazis operating in Europe and the Middle East. Specifically, Harel planned to use Skorzeny as a trap to lure a number of Nazi scientists who were secretly working for Egypt\u2019s missile program.<\/p>\n

According to Raviv and Melman, a Mossad team was sent to Spain to meet Skorzeny. After a tense incident that involved Skorzeny pointing a loaded weapon at two Mossad operatives, the former Nazi soldier agreed to cooperate with Israel in return for assurances that his name would be removed from the Mossad\u2019s assassination list. Raviv and Melman claim that one of Skorzeny\u2019s most high-profile operations as an agent of the Mossad culminated in the assassination of Heinz Krug in Munich in 1962. Krug was a German rocket scientist who was working for the Egyptian government under the tutelage of Dr Wolfgang Pilz, another rocketry expert who had put together a top-secret missile program for Cairo. Krug was targeted for assassination by Yitzhak Shamir, Israel\u2019s future prime minister, who was then commander of the Mossad\u2019s clandestine operations service.<\/p>\n

Krug, who was worried for his life after receiving threatening messages from individuals he believed were connected with the Mossad, reached out to Skorzeny in hopes that the former Waffen SS commander could give him advice on enhancing his personal security. But Skorzeny, operating on orders of the Mossad, shot dead the German scientist in a remote wooded area outside Munich. A Mossad team then poured acid on Krug\u2019s body before burying it in a grave that had been dug in preparation for his killing. According to Raviv and Melman, Skorzeny also sent German scientists in Egypt a number of mail bombs designed by the Mossad, which killed a number of people. Raviv and Melman also state that they received oral confirmation from Rafi Eitan, a legendary Mossad operations officer, that he \u201cmet and ran Skorzeny\u201d on behalf of the Israeli intelligence agency.<\/p>\n

Skorzeny died of cancer in Spain in 1975. He was 67. It is believed that the Mossad never tried to kill or kidnap him.<\/p>\n

Read the Original Article at Intel News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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