Rafi Eitan obituary
(The Guardian Germany)

Former Israeli spymaster who captured the SS officer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in a daring 1960 secret missionOn 11 May 1960 Israeli agents kidnapped a middle-aged man called Ricardo Klement while he was walking home from a bus stop in a suburb of Buenos Aires; Klement was bundled into a car and taken to a safe house, where he admitted that his real name was Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer who played a leading role in implementing Hitler´s `final solution`.In charge of the snatch squad was Rafi Eitan, who was to become a leading figure in Israel´s intelligence community. The capture of Eichmann and his subsequent trial in Jerusalem marked a great leap forward in popular understanding of the Holocaust. Continue reading...