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tags:
  - Concept
  - Intelligence
  - CIA
category: "Intelligence Operation"
summary: "KK MOUNTAIN was the CIA code-name for its Cold War financial subsidy program providing annual cash payments to Mossad, Israel's primary foreign intelligence service."
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KK MOUNTAIN was a code-name for one of the most sensitive operations of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] during the [[Cold War]]. It provided untold millions in annual cash payments to [[Mossad]], [[Israel]]'s primary foreign intelligence service. In return, [[Mossad]] authorized its agents to act, in essence, as American surrogates throughout North [[Africa]] and in countries like [[Kenya]], [[Tanzania]], and the [[Congo]]. Some of the programs under KK MOUNTAIN were financed off the shelf by [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] contingency funds.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 1, 11.