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Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. |
Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. He was later replaced by Sasson Yishaek as commander of the department, but remained in Mossad.1
In 1972, Reuben Yirador was involved in a significant discovery when he decoded a Soviet Union intercept (VENONA) that revealed the Soviet Union were bugging the office of Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel. This discovery, along with Golda Meir meeting with Leonid Brezhnev and her rejection of a peace settlement, informed Anwar Sadat and may have prompted the 1973 war.1
Footnotes
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Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. Sheridan Square Press, 1992 (TrineDay reprint, 2015). ↩︎