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category: "Intelligence & Government"
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tags:
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- Person
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- CIA
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- Israel
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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]
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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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According to [[Mossad]] files, Pearson could also arrange assassinations for $50,000, splitting the fee with a hit man recruited in Louisiana.[^1]
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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. Pearson used Radi's unwitting help to acquire intelligence about Palestinian organizations in [[Europe]] by selling arms to them. This allowed Pearson to pass intelligence to Mossad about the groups' movements and weapons. Based on Radi's tips, 14 or 15 Palestinians were eliminated over a two-month period.[^1]
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In 1978, Pearson offered Radi a £200,000 loan, making it clear the money came from an Israeli source, and recruited him to work for an antiterrorist group in Israel run by [[Rafi]].[^1]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. *Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network*. TrineDay, 1992.
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