Eichmann arrest described

LONDON - The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was snared by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960 thanks to photographs taken 15…

LONDON - The Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was snared by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960 thanks to photographs taken 15 years earlier at his mother's funeral in

Austria, the ex-Mossad agent who organised the kidnapping said in a report yesterday. The past of Mr Hermann Arndt (76) as an Israeli secret agent was unknown to his neighbours in the quiet Devon village of Woodbury, where he lives in retirement, until the publication this week of his book, Operation Eichmann. - (AFP)

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