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01 July 1991

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Accountability for Secret Operations in Israel, Doron and Shapira, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, vol 4, no 3, (Fall 1990). Discusses the process and limits of accountability for Israeli intelligence, with case studies of the "Lavon Affair" of the 1950s and the Shin Bet mishap of 1984, when it tried to cover up the death under torture of two Palestinian commandos. Although the notorious plausible denial mechanism often lets a minister off the hook in the short run, the authors point at the fact that in Israel many people have a "need to know" of some form, thus making it very difficult to cover up serious failures.

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