Mossad Glossary of Terms

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Mossad Glossary of Terms

ACADEMY - (Midrasha) Officially called the prime minister's summer residence, it is the Mossad training school north of Tel Aviv.

AGENT - A widely misused term. It is a recruit, not a domestic employee of an intelligence agency. The Mossad has about 35,000 in the world, 20,000 of them operational and 15,000 sleepers. "Black" agents are Arabs, while "white" agents are non-Arabs. "Warning" agents are strategic agents used to warn of war preparations, e.g., a doctor in a Syrian hospital who notices a large new supply of drugs and medicines arriving; a harbor employee who spots increased activity of war ships.

AL - A secret unit of experienced katsas working under deep cover in the United States.

AMAN - Military intelligence.

APAM - (Avtahat Paylut Modienit) Intelligence operational security.

BABLAT ? "Mixing up the balls" or bilbul baitsin, talking nonsense.

BALDAR - Courier.

BASE COUNTRY - Western Europe, United States, Canada: wherever the Mossad has bases.

BAT LEVEYHA- Female escorts, not for sex; usually local women, not necessarily Jews, hired as assistant agents.

(Sexpionage Parlance of international espionage, the use of "sex" by foreign spies to obtain information or concessions from government officials is called "sexpionage". The sexual seduction of high level government officials by foreign spies is usually of the illicit category which provides foreign operatives the added advantage of being able to better bribe the targeted victims which may be married with children. The operation may involve compromising the government officials through the use of professional prostitutes, underage girls (or boys) or by providing homosexual lovers to not yet "out-of-the-closet" targets, as was the case with Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey.

1. Swallows Parlance of the Israeli intelligence services, female sexpionage agents
2. Ravens Males who are trained to compromise women or other men )

BENELUX ? The Belgian/Holland/Luxembourg desk at Mossad headquarters.

BODEL ? (bodlim, plural) Or lehavdil. Go-between, messenger between safe houses and embassies or between various safe houses.

CASE OFFICER ? In most intelligence services, the name used instead of the Mossad's katsa. In the Mossad, case officers are the people in Metsada who handle the combatants.

COMBATANTS ? The real "spies": Israelis sent to Arab countries to work under cover.

DARDASIM (Smerfs) ? A sub-department within Kaisarut; they work in China, Africa, and the Far East establishing relations.

DAYLIGHT ? Highest state of alert of a Mossad station.

DEVELOPMENT ? Tied in to military unit 8520; they manufac
ture special locks, suitcases with false bottoms, etc. DIAMOND (yahalomim) ? A unit in the Mossad that handles
communications to agents in target countries.

DIRECT INTELLIGENCE ? Actual physical movements or activities that can be observed; e.g., movements of arms or troops, or readiness of hospitals or harbors for war.

DUVSHANIN ? Usually UN peacekeeping troops paid to transport messages and packages back and forth across Israeli- Arab borders.

EXPERTS WITH HANDLES ? Term used to describe a professional in a field outside of espionage and/or intelligence who is taken on missions to identify documentation or equipment in his area of expertise. "With handles" is a metaphor for a parcel, i.e., he is carried in by the Mossad team.

FALACH -- Arab peasant farmers in Lebanon, often recruited by Israeli military as low-grade agents.

FIBER INTELLIGENCE ? Observations that are not physical, such
as economic indicators, rumors, morale, general feelings.

FRAMES (Misgarot) ? Jewish self-protection units set up all
over the world.

GADNA ? Israeli para-military youth brigades.

HETS VA-KESHET (bow and arrow) ? The emblem and summer training camp of Gadna.

HORSE (sus) ? A higher-ranking person who helps you up the ladder.

HUMANT -- The collection of information from human beings, i.e., agents of all types.

INSTITUTE? The formal name of the Mossad. In Hebrew, Mossad is Ha Mossad, le Modiyn ye le Tatkidim Mayuhadim, or in English, the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations.

JUMBO ? Personal information beyond official intelligence, gathered by Mossad liaison officers from foreign intelligence liaison officers, e.g., CIA.

JUMPERS ? Katsas stationed in Israel who jump into various countries on a short-term basis, as opposed to katsas actually stationed abroad.

KAISARUT (originally Tevel)? Liaison at Israeli embassies; known as intelligence officers by local authorities.

KATSA ? "Gathering officer" or "case officer." Mossad has only about 35 in operations recruiting enemy agents worldwide, compared with many thousands for KGB and CIA.

KESHET ? (Later neviot) "Bow." Gathering information from
still objects, e.g. break-ins, installing listening devices. KIDON ? "Bayonet." Operational arm of Metsada responsible
for executions and kidnappings.

KOMEMIUTE ? See Metsada.

KSHARIM ? "Knots." Computer records of who is tied in with whom.

LAKAM ? (Lishka le Kishrei Mada) Israeli prime minister's scientific affairs liaison bureau.

LAP ? (Lohamah Pscichlogit) or psychological warfare. LEAD ? Recruiting one person to get at another.

MABUAH ? Someone who brings information from a source of information rather than directly.

MALAT ? Branch in liaison dealing with South America. MARATS ? Listeners.

MASLUH ? "Route." a system used for self-protection, to know if you're being tailed or not.

MAULTER ? Hebrew word meaning simply "unplanned." Used to describe unplanned or improvised security route

MELUCKHA ? Originally Tsomet, meaning "kingdom." Recruiting department that handles katsas.

METSADA ? (Later Komemiute) Highly secret, like a miniMossad within the Mossad; operates combatants.

MISGAROT ? See "frames."

MISHLASHIM ? "Triplers." Drops and dead-letter boxes.

MOLICH ? "Walker." Like a seeing-eye dog; one recruited not for himself, but to lead someone else.

NAICA ? Uniform Mossad writing system for operation and information reports.

NATIV ? Collects information re Soviet Union; helps create escape routes for Eastern Bloc Jews.

NEVIOT ? See Keshet.

OTER ? An Arab paid to help make contact with other Arabs, often used in recruitment process, usually paid $3,000 to $5,000 a month, plus expenses.

PAHA ? (paylut hablanit oyenet) Hostile sabotage activities, e.g., PLO.

ROUTE ? See maslut.

SAFE HOUSE ? Actually called "operational apartments" by Mossad; apartments or houses owned or rented for secret meetings and as operations bases.

SAIFANIM ? "Goldfish," the department within the Mossad that deals with the PLO.

SAYAN ? (Sayanim, plural) Volunteer Jewish helpers outside Israel.

SEVEN STAR ? Small, leather-bound daybook carried by katsas, containing phone numbers and contacts in code.

SEXPIONAGE - office Factor that is very important for Israel in keeping a profitable symbiotic relationships with the USA is effective sexpionage. Sexpionage is so important to Israel, that it has opened an office for this purpose right smack in the center of US political power -- Washington D.C. The office fronts as a post 911 anti-terrorism institute and is located at 3811 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 720 Arlington, VA 22203. The Chief of the office is non other that the immediate former Director of the Israeli MOSSAD, Shabtai Shavit.

SHABACK ? The Israeli equivalent of the FBI; the internal se
curity force.

sHicKLuT ? The department handling listening personnel, i.e. marats.

SHIN BET ? Former name for Shaback.

SLICK ? Hiding place for documents, weapons, etc.

TACHLESS ? Getting to the point.

TARGET COUNTRY ? Any Arab country.

TAYESET ? Code name for training department.

TEUD ? "Documents" ? manufacturing documents, e.g. passports.

TEVEL - See Kaisarut.

TSAFRIRIM ? "Morning breeze" in English. Organizes Jewish communities outside Israel; helps set up frames.

TSIACH ? (Tsorech Yediot Hasuvot). Annual meeting of military and civilian Israeli intelligence organizations; also n