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Mossad, n.
(mɒˈsæd, U.S. məʊˈsɑːd, ‖ moˈsaːd)
Also Mosad, MOSSAD.
[ad. Heb. mōsāḏ institution.]
a. [Ellipt. for Heb. Mōsāḏ (lĕ-) ꜥAliyāh Bēṯ Institution for the Second Immigration.] An underground organization formed in 1938 for the purpose of bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine.
1954J. & D. Kimche Secret Roads xvi. 219 The Mossad..became the architect of the first mass migration to Zion. 1979M. J. Cohen Lett. & Papers C. Weizman XX. 87 A clash between Mosad (organisation for illegal immigration into Palestine) and Haganah. 1982― Palestine & Great Powers 1945–1948 x. 254 Yosi Har-el, senior representative on board of both the Hagana and the Mosad, thought the landing of the immigrants was a second priority.
b. [Ellipt. for Heb. Mōsāḏ ꜥElyōn lĕ-Mōdīꜥīn u-Biṭāḥōn Supreme Institution for Intelligence and Security.] The principal secret intelligence service of the state of Israel, established in 1951.
1972F. Forsyth Odessa File xiii. 215 Three tiny fragments of information had come into the possession of the Mossad in the previous six days. 1973Times 12 Apr. 8/4 Mossad, the group word given to the intelligence department, comes under the control of a powerful trio of politicians. 1975M. H. Albert Gargoyle Conspiracy vi. 96 There was no message for him from Uri, so the Mossad agent still wasn't back in Rome. 1979Time 7 May 40/3 The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD,..notably on Christmas morning 1969, when its agents piloted five embargoed gunboats from the port city of Cherbourg to Haifa. 1986Washington Post 24 Apr. a20/5 The defendants claimed that they had used the Israeli intelligence service Mossad to check the backgrounds of some of the other conspirators. |