1960s
Date | Place | Target | Description | Action | Killer |
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September 11, 1962 | Munich, Germany | Heinz Krug | West German rocket scientist working for Egypt's missile program | Abducted from his company offices on Munich's Schillerstrasse, his body was never found. Swiss police later arrested two Mossad agents for threatening the daughter of another scientist and found that they were responsible for the killing. Part of Operation Damocles. | Mossad |
November 28, 1962 | Heluan, Egypt | 5 Egyptian factory workers | Workers employed at Factory 333, an Egyptian rocket factory. | Letter bomb sent bearing Hamburg post mark. Another such bomb disfigured and blinded a secretary. Part of Operation Damocles. | Mossad |
February 23, 1965 | Montevideo, Uruguay | Herberts Cukurs | Aviator who had been involved in the murders of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust | Lured to and killed in Montevideo by agents under the false pretense of starting an aviation business. | Mossad |
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