Title: Operation Uranium Ship
Author: Dennis Eisenberg
Eisenberg, Dennis (1978), Eli Landau, and Menahem Portugali. Operation Uranium Ship. New York: Signet
LCCN: 2011508976
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Date Updated: April 27, 2015
Reviewed by George C. Constantinides[1]
The authors claim this is “in essence the true story of how a cargo of uranium vanished on the high seas in 1968.” Except for the fact of the diversion of two hundred tons of the uranium by the Israelis, however, this account is either unreliable or unsubstantiated. The authors have written more a script for a potential adventure movie than an accurate account: there’s plenty of sex, gun battles, ship hijackings, illegal boardings, etc. A very crucial comment by a Euratom official in 1977 that goes counter to the substance of their version of events is given in a footnote with no comment by them. For a much more reliable account of this uranium diversion operation, see Davenport, Eddy, and Gillman’s The Plumbat Affair.[2]
[1] Constantinides, George C. (1983). Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, p. 174
[2] Davenport, Elaine (1978), Paul Eddy, and Peter Gillman. The Plumbat Affair. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott
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