Summary
A physicist who in 1956 was a young intelligence officer and the “Operation Fig” programme’s emissary in Paris; in Yigal Sarna’s investigation, reproduced as Appendix 4 of Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, he refused to speak about the secret Franco-Israeli accord (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.520-521).
Details
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Sarna describes Ne’eman as “the physicist Yuval Ne’eman, then a young intelligence officer and the programme’s emissary in Paris”, in whose office he heard mainly stunned silence (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.520-521).
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Asked to speak, Ne’eman said: ““Only if you bring me a personal note from the head of the Mossad now, [indicating] that he has authorization from the head of French intelligence that I can speak, will I open my mouth””, and refused to speak even about things revealed in Motti Golani’s study There Will Be War in Summer, officially published by the Ministry of Defence (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.521).
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Sarna’s full Appendix 4 account (part 10) adds: Ne’eman, Deputy Chief of Military Intelligence, was chosen as the single Paris contact for “Operation Fig”, took eight trips to France with his family moved there by Dayan, worked with “Morland”, head of the French Service Action, elaborated the details “with a rapidity that frightened the French”, and still refused to answer whether he arranged assassination orders for Algerian underground leaders: “That is intelligence material that will remain with me forever” (Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, PDF p.525-528).
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Under “Operation High Tide” Israel requested and received 200 MX tanks and 72 Mystère planes; the planned actions included bombing the Voice of Cairo and Damascus radio stations with French-prepared explosive devices; Ne’eman reported the individual-terrorism commitment had become dormant and was instructed not to “awake my love, till he please” (PDF p.527-528).
Related pages
Peace, Peace, When There Is No Peace, Yigal Sarna, Operation Sinai