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  • 8 - Lillehammer Fiasco: Official Condemnation, Covert Approval

  • from Part III - Blunder and Cooperate
  • Aviva Guttmann, Aberystwyth University
  • Book:
    Operation Wrath of God
    Published online:
    12 August 2025
    Print publication:
    07 August 2025, pp 209-235

  • Summary

    On 21 July 1973, in a small, quiet Norwegian vacation town called Lillehammer, Mossad committed two unforgivable mistakes: first, it killed the wrong man and, second, it got caught doing it. On the official diplomatic level, the Lillehammer affair and public trial of the six Mossad officers caused a mass outpouring of international outrage and hostile press towards Israel. On the secret intelligence level, as this chapter demonstrates, it was as if the Lillehammer affair never happened. Chapter 8 focuses on three cases where cooperation started before the killing in Lillehammer and lasted for several months after. The chapter also discusses Club de Berne reports from early 1973 about terrorist activities in Scandinavia, which explains why Mossad readily believed claims that Salameh, a top terrorist, would be in Norway.