In the quiet northern reaches of Tel Aviv sits a
headquarters whose address is rarely printed, whose budget is never fully
disclosed, and whose staff numbers are, at best, an educated guess. This is the
home of the Mossad, formally known as the Institute for Intelligence and
Special Operations, an agency that has spent more than seven decades operating
in the shadows of global politics while shaping the security posture of an
entire nation.
Few intelligence organizations in the world carr...