Middle East Focus: Wiesenthal the Complex Theocrat, Theorcart, Theo…………

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Wiesenthal the Complex Theocrat, Theorcart, Theo…………

“Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Simon Wiesenthal, who became well-known for dedicating his life pursuing Nazi war criminals and documenting their crimes, was in fact an agent of the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, a new book released on Thursday revealed. Documents from Wiesenthal’s estate and interviews with his Mossad supervisors break the widely-held belief of how he operated and cast doubts on the standard perception that the Israeli government had played minimal role in tracking down Nazi criminals. In his new book, “Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends,” Israeli historian, author and columnist Tom Segev revealed that Wiesenthal, who died in 2005 at the age of 96, had received a monthly salary of $300 from the Israeli embassy in Vienna. Wiesenthal was first recruited by the political department of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, an espionage body predecessor to the Mossad, and then by the agency itself. The spy agency provided him funding to set up his first office on Vienna in 1960 and gave him an Israeli passport and assigned him the codename of “Theorcart,” Segev wrote in his book…….The book also revealed that Wiesenthal supported former Austrian President and former UN Secretary General Kurt Josef Waldheim……..”

Obviously he was a complex man. As for joining the Mossad: wouldn’t you, if you were Jewish European, after World War II?
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