The German magazine Focus reported that one of the planners of the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 in which 11 Israeli athletes were killed worked with the German intelligence and was in contact with German intelligence agents up until his demise in 1992.
The magazine revealed that the information came from confidential protocols written at the time by the German intelligence agency Bundesamt Prapasung Shots, who mentioned that Ataf Basiso who headed the Palestinian Liberation Organization's security division met frequently with the head of the German intelligence foreign interests department Klaus Grunwald up until his demise in Paris twenty years later at the hands of the Mossad.
The Munich massacre occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, in the then West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by Black September, a group with ties to Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization.
By the end of the ordeal, the terrorist group had murdered eleven Israeli athletes and coaches and one German police officer. Five of the eight terrorists were killed by police officers during an abortive rescue attempt. The three surviving terrorists were captured, and were later released by West Germany following the hijacking of a Lufthansa airliner, a release that has led to speculation that West Germany had helped stage the Lufthansa hijacking.
The murdered Israeli athletes were Moshe Weinberg (wrestling coach) , Yossef Romano (weightlifter) ,Ze'ev Friedman (weightlifter),David Berger (weightlifter),Yakov Springer (weightlifting judge) ,Eliezer Halfin (wrestler), Yossef Gutfreund (wrestling referee) , Kehat Shorr (shooting coach) , Mark Slavin (wrestler) ,Andre Spitzer (fencing coach) and Amitzur Shapira (track coach) .04/22/08
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