IDFM203
08-01-2004, 08:18 AM
While I must say that I enjoyed reading your (CAG 147) second post, I had to stop and pause when I saw the name of the British author Gordon Thomas, for IMO he has some serious credibility issues and frankly I would take what he writes with a huge grain of salt (and well I don’t know but it seems that the author of the article Richard M Bennett probably wrote most of the article based on his (Gordon Thomas) writings).
Here is a repeat of what I wrote about him a while back in another thread after there was a article posted here that was written by him.……..
Just a few points, while I enjoyed that article, the author Gordon Thomas has some major credibility issues, At least in my opinion.
I read his book on the Mossad and man a lot of things there are extremely unfounded, especially his linking of the Mossad with some connection to princess Diana’s death (and no I am not joking that there is this discussion in his book :roll: ).
Besides that there are a lot of other “expulsive” discoveries or “scoops” that I just don’t see how he can prove nor how its possible or plausible or more so how he would know if indeed they were true.
Secondly the killing of the engineer that he writes about in this articles, well I thought was done by the “shin bet” and not the Mossad, in fact I am not even sure the Mossad operates in the west bank at all.
Lastly his writing style is a bit over the top to say the least and it comes off as embellishing and exaggerating what is normal operating procedure amongst most spy agencies but somehow he tries to highlight that only the Mossad do it.........perhaps I am reading way too much in this but after seeing his articles copied in a lot of anti Semitic news sites (and no I am not in any way saying he is one himself), well I guess you can understand why I might take issue with the way he writes.
Anyways just some thoughts.......
Shalom :D
So while I actually found the article above flattering of the Mossad (and well not so flattering of the Brit equivalents), I must say that still, I have serious doubts about the authors “truth” credibility and well he seems in general more like a fiction author then any real expert on the Mossad or the Brit equivalents.
Just my take on him...............
Shalom :D
I read Vassili Mitrokhin's book : The Mitrokhine Archive. LOADS of info on the KGB and it destorys miths and misconceptions in other spy-books.
Hell, the book is longer than Clinton's My Life.
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