Ostrovsky, Victor. The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda. New York: Harper Paperbacks, 1995. 399 pages.

Victor Ostrovsky, a Mossad officer from 1984-1986, first exposed Israel's intelligence operations with a 1990 bestseller titled "By Way of Deception." Israeli efforts to stop publication were too late, and Ostrovsky, who was born in Canada and raised in Israel, was legally back in Canada with his family by then, under the protection of the Mounties. Pushing his luck somewhat, "The Other Side of Deception" is volume two from Ostrovsky. This volume is more autobiographical: Ostrovsky reports his adventures through a rough chronology, diary-style, from 1986 to 1991, and includes much reconstructed dialogue.

According to Ostrovsky, most of his activities in 1986 were at the behest of a tiny cabal of Mossad insiders who were disgusted with their agency's wanton immorality, and were running some tricks of their own to discredit their leadership. This included passing intelligence to other countries, and could be considered treasonous -- were it not for the fact that business as usual at Mossad is a betrayal of all that's civil in the first place. Ostrovsky doesn't name many names, so we have to take him at his word. He does state that the following deaths were all Mossad hits, and includes new details: British publisher Robert Maxwell, Canadian scientist Gerald Bull, German official Uwe Barschel, and Iran-contra figure Ian Spiro.
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