单词 | mossad |
释义 | Mossadn. 1. An underground organization formed in 1938 for the purpose of bringing Jews from Europe to Palestine. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] > an organization of spies > Jewish Nili1930 Mossad1954 1954 J. Kimche & D. Kimche Secret Roads xvi. 219 The Mossad..became the architect of the first mass migration to Zion. 1979 M. J. Cohen Lett. & Papers C. Weizman XX. 87 A clash between Mosad (organisation for illegal immigration into Palestine) and Haganah. 1982 M. J. Cohen Palestine & Great Powers x. 254 Yosi Har-el, senior representative on board of both the Hagana and the Mosad, thought the landing of the immigrants was a second priority. 2. The principal secret intelligence service of the state of Israel, established in 1951. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > political police > [noun] > secret service or police > other spec. Okhrana1884 Cheka1921 GPU1922 Gay-Pay-Oo1923 Ogpu1923 Rabkrin1928 Gestapo1934 Seguridad1937 Abwehr1945 Kempeitai1947 Sicherheitsdienst1947 Okhranka1948 Securitate1951 SMERSH1953 K.G.B.1960 SAVAK1962 Shin Bet1964 Stasi1964 BOSS1969 Mukhabarat1969 Mossad1972 Shabak1972 1972 F. Forsyth Odessa File xiii. 215 Three tiny fragments of information had come into the possession of the Mossad in the previous six days. 1979 Time 7 May 40/3 The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD,..notably on Christmas morning 1969, when its agents piloted five embargoed gunboats from the port city of Cherbourg to Haifa. 1986 Washington Post 24 Apr. a20/5 The defendants claimed that they had used the Israeli intelligence service Mossad to check the backgrounds of some of the other conspirators. 2001 Middle East Times (Egypt ed.) 7 Apr. 9/2 The offensive was ‘planned by the Israeli Mossad (secret service) in coordination with the Iranian regime with the aim of occupying the Gulf region,’ according to Tamimi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1954 |
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