Neither fleeing overseas, nor changing their names, former high-ranking Nazis couldn’t escape Mossad – the Israeli intelligence service that hunted them down in the postwar decades. Mossad’s number one target was Adolf Eichmann, known as the Architect of the Holocaust. He was tracked down only 15 years after he fled. Eichmann hid very far away, and very well as it seemed.
In this WAS video we’ll recall one of the most brilliant Mossad operations, Operation Finale, that is the capture of Adolf Eichmann. You will learn how Israeli intelligence service managed to identify a humble Argentinian clerk Ricardo Klement as a notorious Nazi, why Eichmann’s capture in Buenos Aires required organizing a fictitious travel agency and a car crash, and finally, what did the new documents, declassified only in a 21 century, tell about the fugitive Eichmann.