I Want a MiG-21! Part 1

Mid 1965.

Somewhere in Tel Aviv in a house lived Ezer Weizman, Chief of the Israelis Defence Forces(IDF) was ready to have his breakfast waiting for his best friend Meir Amit(Mossad Chief). This was a normal for them. They used to have breakfast together quite often. One day while having breakfast Meir Amit Asks Weizman that as a Mossad what can he do for him.

Meir Amit: As a Mossad what can I do for you. Everybody asks for something from me but you never.

Ezer Weizman: I never ask because I'm afraid you can't give me that.

Meir Amit: There's no harm in asking. Who knows I might give it to you.

Ezer Weizman: Are you sure?

Meir Amit: Yes.

Ezer Weizman: Get me a MiG - 21.

Meir Amit was shocked for a second and he even chocked on his coffee spilling it all over the table.

Mossad is one of the Top Intelligence Agencies and as its Chief, he has seen his fair share of everything and was never as shocked as listening to what Ezer said just now.

Meir Amit: Are you crazy! No country in the Western Block has it. How am I supposed to get you one. This is Impossible

Ezer Weizman: That's why I never asked you for this favour.

And that was the reality. MiG-21 was the most advanced technology equipped fighter jet in the 1960s, that only a handful of countries had.

This plane was a complete mystery for the Western Block, be it Americans, British, Israel. And they had never seen or inspected a MiG-21.

Russia had delivered a large amount of planes to Arab Countries and that posed a serious threat to the national security of Israel. Ezer Weizman knew it and he wanted to study the plane so as to make counter arrangements for Israel's defense.

Even after leaving Meir Amit was thinking about the words Ezer Weizman said this morning. It was the only thing that Ezer had ever asked him for and didn't want the reputation of Mossad to go down the drain.

Meir Amit took Weizman's demand as a challenge and entrusted Mossad's James Bond Rehavia Vardi with this task.

Vardi started sending the feelers to Mossad's Agents, Israeli diplomats and Ambassadors that a MiG-21 is required keep your eyes, ears and noses alert at all times and report back if getting any news.

A few weeks later, Vardi receives an Intel from Israel's cultural attaché Yakov Nimrodi in Iran.

He Informed Vardi that he knows an Iraqi Jewish Pilot, Yosuf Shemesh. And that he can deliver a MiG-21.

Shemesh had a Christian Girlfriend in Baghdad whose sister's husband name was Munir Redfa. Redfa was also a pilot in Iraqi Air Force and used to fly a MiG-21.

He was very dissatisfied with his superior officers in Iraqi Air Force. He was getting fed up of Iraqi behavior towards him.

Redfa once told Shemesh that he was given an assignment to bamb a Kurd/Quds village with very few men and mostly women and children.

He didn't want to bomb that village but under the pressure from his superiors' pressure but had to bomb ans kill women and children.

After that mission Redfa didn't want to live in Iraq anymore.

It took Shemesh one whole year to convince him to work for Mossad.

To Be Continued.

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