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category: "Intelligence & Government"
tags:
- Person
- Military
- Intelligence
- UK
- CIA
- Israel
summary: "According to Mossad files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana."
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[[Anthony Pearson]] was a former British Special Airborne Service ([[SAS]]) officer who ran a company called [[Strategic Intelligence Services]], located in [[London]]. His firm provided espionage services to [[Israel]], among others.[^1]
[[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] was known for recruiting mercenaries from [[Lafayette]], [[Louisiana]], and sending them to various parts of the world. His men were involved in helping the Muslim government's troops in southern [[Sudan]] fight against Christian-Animist revolutionaries in the early 1970s. In November 1981, some of his men participated in an unsuccessful coup in the [[Seychelles]], where they were arrested for bringing in AK-47s in golf bags.[^1]
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[[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] recruited [[Nicholas Davies]], the London *Daily Mirror* foreign editor, for [[Mossad]] in the 1970s. He also worked with [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah]], a former colonel in the [[Jordan|Jordanian]] Army. [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] used [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi's]] unwitting help to acquire intelligence about Palestinian organizations in [[Europe]] by selling arms to them. This allowed [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] to pass intelligence to [[Mossad]] about the groups' movements and weapons. Based on [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi's]] tips, 14 or 15 Palestinians were eliminated over a two-month period.[^1]
In 1978, [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] offered [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an [[Israel|Israeli]] source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in [[Israel]] run by [[Rafi Eitan]].[^1]
In 1978, [[Anthony Pearson|Pearson]] offered [[Mohammed Radi Abdullah|Radi]] a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an [[Israel|Israeli]] source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in [[Israel]] run by [[Rafi]].[^1]
### Footnotes
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992. (Hereafter, "Profits of War")
[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.