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Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. | 2026-10-12 |
According to Ari Ben-Menashe, Colonel Reuben Yirador was a department commander in Unit 8200, an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. Ben-Menashe wrote that he was later replaced by Sasson Yishaek as commander of the department, but remained in Mossad.1
Ari Ben-Menashe wrote that in 1972 Yirador made a significant discovery when he decoded a Soviet Union intercept, which the account names VENONA, that revealed the Soviets were bugging the office of Golda Meir, then Prime Minister of Israel. Ben-Menashe wrote that this discovery, along with Meir's meeting with Leonid Brezhnev and her rejection of a peace settlement, informed Anwar Sadat and may have prompted the 1973 war.1
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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). ↩︎