Yesterday I saw a man who looked a lot like the Dybbuk near the house

Today is the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem and here is the original Mossad document that launched the operation for his abduction from Buenos Aires

Adolf Eichmann’s Mossad codename was Dybbuk, Hebrew for a malign spirit of a dead person that enters the body of a living person. The Mossad used code words with negative connotations for Nazis, their relatives and helpers.

On March 19 1960, after many long days of

information- gathering and surveillance of the man who was believed to be the Dybbuk, Mossad operative Zvi Aharoni, who had traveled to Argentina to locate Eichmann, was sitting under the tarpaulin over the back of a pickup truck parked in Garibaldi Street in a Buenos Aires

suburb, San Fernando taking notes and snapping photos. A family going under the name Clement lived in a house there, registered in the name of “The Barrel” – the codename Aharoni had assigned to the woman believed to be Eichmann’s wife. (PC considerations prevent explaining

why he came up with this one.)

"In brief, I believe that planning the operation should begin", Aharoni wrote. "I have almost no doubt that this man is the Dybuk. He definitely looks like him, and like the photograph we received – the bread deliveryman said that he is the

husband of Hannah (another codename for Mrs. Eichmann.) He patted the boy and got undressed in the house. Making a final identification will be possible only after the operatives are ready in place because any moves that are too conspicuous will scare him and he is liable to

disappear.”

Aharoni ended by expressing near amazement at the paucity of security and cover measures taken by Eichmann: “Their confidence is astonishing. The whole family is living here under their actual name"

In fact, the Eichmanns had no reason to fear because no one had

actually bothered them or any of the other Nazis who had escaped to South America, until the abduction operation two months later.