On 50th Anniversary Of His Trial, Eichmann’s Case Still Brands Israel: Transformed Young Country Into State With An Activist Holocaust Agenda
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The early 1960s was more than simply the revelry of TVs "Mad Men." It was also a time when international justice held court, and a certifiable madman found himself at the center of the world's judgement. In 1961, a young American president read James Bond novels, while high-stakes espionage dominated popular culture and fed global anxieties. Neighbors suspected one another of being double agents. Meanwhile, down in Argentina, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi with the most Jewish blood on his hands, was one of those neighbors leading a double life. One day, while living in a suburb of Buenos Aires under an alias, Eichmann was spirited away from his street, drugged and dressed up as an El Al flight attendant and smuggled to Israel to stand trial. Suddenly, the CIA and the KGB had competition. The Mossad and Shin Bet, Israel's secret intelligence agencies, instantly became the new rage in cloak-and-dagger.
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