The Ghost by Henry Kellerman

Author:Henry Kellerman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781569808245
Publisher: Barricade Books
Published: 2018-07-13T16:00:00+00:00

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DECRYPTION AT BLETCHLEY

Everyone was focused on the 48th precinct in the Bronx, but hardly anyone was interested in a person apparently living in Jerusalem. That person was Shmuel Kishnov who was a known as a secretive type so that wherever he lived would be just about impossible to locate. When he was affiliated with Kovner’s Avengers, he was consistently in deep cover and therefore not visible even as one of the more notable members of the group. Yet, he had the reputation within the group as a thinking, as well as a doing man. All the members of the Avengers admired him—especially as this doing man.

By the time the Kovner group for one reason or another began splintering, there was only one place for Shmuel Kishnov to go. It was to the Palestine territory and specifically to join the Irgun which was the Jewish violent offshoot of the Haganah. The Haganah was the Jewish Defense Force of the pre-Israel Palestine Mandate, and morphed as well into the overall Israeli Defense Forces post-1948 when Israel became a state.

From the early 1930’s to the almost mid 1940’s, the Irgun was less an organization of defense and more an organization of an attack force. Irgun became known as a violent Jabotinsky philosophical organization the motto of which could be defined as “with whatever means necessary” to create the Jewish state, Israel. This was of course, the nature of the Irgun that resonated well with the Kishnov doing mentality and because of it, in the mid to late 1940’s he gravitated to this middle east region just as the birth of the new state Israel was then ratified by the United Nations.

Kishnov was drawn to Jabotinsky because Jabotinsky’s inherent policy would need men like Kishnov to do what this militant Zionist revisionist wanted—to win at any cost and in any way. For Jabotinsky it was Israel or death, and Shmuel Kishnov was perfectly aligned with all of it.

Kishnov was Russian like Jabotinsky who was originally named Vladimir Yevgenyevich Zhabotinsky, and who spent his early years in Berdychiv in Ukraine. Kishnov also came from Ukraine and this similarity of their origins appealed to Kishnov. His family lived in Yaruga, a little hamlet in Ukraine on the border of Romania divided by the Dniestr River.

After Kishnov had worked for a while for Irgun, it became obvious that he would be sanctioned to become an assassin. This role for Kishnov became known to insiders as well as to important others in and out of Israeli Secret Service.

As might be expected, Imi Lichtenfeld mentored Shmuel Kishnov during Kishnov’s tenure and also as a Krav Maga fighter. From the mid to late 1940’s to the present −1958—Imi again made another foray into the inner sanctum of Israeli Secret Service and Shmuel Kishnov was there to excavate for him.

They met in Jerusalem at the King David Hotel, and sat on the veranda sipping drinks. It was this year, 1958, twelve years since the Irgun blew up the Hotel

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