Results for “Operation Litany”

I’m writing about the Iran deal. So far have only sent a form paragraph in response to requests. Below. Noam On Iran, as usual, I’m a gloomy contrarian. I’m glad the treaty was signed, and it’s kind of fun to watch the Republican lunatics shrieking hysterically as they try to k...

… a near-weekly basis, he and Hicks plotted when next to have the Zimes come in. OOK Ok Kushner had his personal press operation and Bannon had his. The leaking culture had become so open and overt—most of the time everybody could identify everybody else’s leaks—that it was now...

…o the control tower, I tried to work out in my mind whether we could plan, prepare and train quickly enough to mount an operation to free the plane later that night. More than a dozen members of the unit had now arrived, and more were joining us every half-hour or so. I arranged...

fact, the entire press operation ought to be downgraded. If the press was the enemy, why pander to it, why give it more visibility? This was fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies. As the debate went on, Priebus pushed for one of his dep...

…ptation that had worried me during the meandering war against Hizbollah. Our ground incursion began a few days into the operation. The intention was to stay for a few more days and then, responding to inevitable international appeals, call a halt to a campaign that had already ac...

…use. Epstein has paid millions of dollars in civil compensation that, for the most part, has kept the details about his operation out of the public eye. As a result, much — but not all — of the testimony and evidence collected as part of the vast litigation has been sealed or red...

…from our real mission, which meant we could return in a few months and have another attempt. After all, the part of the operation that had been causing the most concern in the Airya — our ability to get deep inside Egypt undetected — had succeeded. We were nearly three hours behi...

…o the control tower, I tried to work out in my mind whether we could plan, prepare and train quickly enough to mount an operation to free the plane later that night. More than a dozen members of the unit had now arrived, and more were joining us every half-hour or so. I arranged...

… Epstein. The porter's wife, who lived in South America, des- perately needed an organ transplant. Epstein paid for the operation. "That's just typical," Grossberg says. "That's who he always was, long as I knew him." "Lafayette was a city school," says another old classmate, Jam...

…rom a non-kibbutznik — Benjamin Franklin — which probably best summed up what drove my planning for the sayeret’s first operation, and the others that would follow. “Failing to prepare,” he wrote, “is to preparing for failure.” Running into Syrian soldiers was, of course, top of...

…forcing open the doors, and another hour for preparations and briefings for the teams who would be participating in the operation. “By about half an hour after midnight, we’ll be ready to deploy,” I said, though from his stoic, nearly silent response I couldn’t be sure whether he...

…cussions in my office through the late hours of Wednesday night, we finally settled on our plan: Peled’s major airborne operation, but with a Sayeret Matkal strike force, with its “Ugandan” motorcade, spearheading it. Minutes later, three other C-130s would fly in additional troo...

… we had hoisted ourselves in, we headed out at first by paddle, then under engine power, to the missile boat. The whole operation had taken about a half an hour, only 10 minutes on Rue Verdun. I radioed Manno on the way to the missile boat. A half-dozen words: the agreed code ph...

…Negev, complete with special antennas to receive the intercept transmissions if we succeeded. Not since the first Golan operation had the attention of the kirya been so keen, or the stakes so high. In addition to Meir Amit, and of course Avraham, also flying down to Mount Keren w...

…netration. The Russian intelligence service had demonstrated in the past it was well-schooled in covering its tracks in operations against US communications intelligence. For example, CIA counterintelligence had learned from a KGB defector in the early 1960s that Russian intellig...