Gordon Thomas's 1999 publication of Gideon's Spies, resulting from closed-door interviews with Mossad agents, informants, and spymasters as well as from classified documents and top-secret sources, revealed previously untold truths about the Israeli intelligence agency. And now, in this edition, Thomas updates his classic text and shows the Mossad as it truly is: brilliant, ruthless, and flawed, but ultimately awesome.Three all-new chapters cover topics including:

-How the Mossad planned to assassinate Saddam Hussein

- Saddam's food-testing ritual, and the surprising "source" within his government

- China's U.S.-based front-companies, and its relationship with bin Laden

- Mossad's untold role in the events before and after 9/11

- Mossad and revelations about Princess Diana's death

- The disappearance of the millions transferred from the Vatican Bank to the Polish Solidarity movement

- How extremists recruit suicide bombers, including women

- Mossad's untold role in the Iraq war and the hunts for Saddam and bin Laden

- Saddam's plans for trial