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DIED. ISSER HAREL,
91, Israeli spymaster who headed Mossad, the country's intelligence
agency during the 1950s and early 1960s, and who
masterminded the capture of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1960; in Petah Tikva,
Israel. In the 1975 book
The House on Garibaldi Street
,
which was made into a TV movie, Harel wrote about how he snared Eichmann. Much feared by
his enemies, Harel unmasked Israel Beer, a Soviet mole
who had penetrated Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's inner circle, and once made a man
confess by simply saying: "I know you're a Russian...