The Ghost of Buenos Aires: Mossad’s Hunt for Adolf Eichmann

The Ghost of Buenos Aires: Mossad’s Hunt for Adolf Eichmann May 23, 1960. The world awoke to a stunning announcement from Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion: “Adolf Eichmann is in our custody. He will stand trial in Israel.” For over a decade, Eichmann had been a ghost. A man responsible for the logistics of the Holocausttransporting millions of Jews to their deaths disappeared in 1945. Some believed he was dead. Others whispered about a secret Nazi network smuggling war criminals to South America. But one thing was certainEichmann was no longer a memory. He was a man breathing in exile, a fugitive shielded by deception.