Atlas-Operation 1944

'The Good Spy: The Life and Death of Robert Ames', Kai Bird -  Biography & Autobiography, Broadway Books, 2015 [ ISBN: 0307889769, 9780307889768 ], p.86
Ali Hassan Salameh was born in 1942 in Baghdad, where his parents had ... Whether he was a “gang chieftain” or a guerrilla resistance leader, Salameh had the backing of the grand mufti of Jerusalem And when the Mufti fled Palestine in 1939, Salameh followed him into exile to Baghdad. There he received military training in Iraq from 1939 to 1940. But soon afterwards, Salameh followed the grand mufti to Nazi Germany...

This would prove to be an egregious miscalculation, not only because the Germans lost the war, but also because of what the Germans did to the Jews. The enormity of the Holocaust would mean that Haj Amin Husseini's alliance—however ineffectual—would become a black stain on the reputation of the Palestinian cause. And Hassan Salameh was personally involved. He became a virtual covet operative of the Germans.
In December 1941 Haj Amin met with December 1941 Haj Amin met with Hitler and suggested that German and Palestinian commandos should parachute into Palestine and incite the local population to rise up against the British the British. 
this idea languished until late in the war, when the Germans activated a covert plan—Operation Atlas—to do exactly what the grand mufti had suggested. By one account, Haj Amin Husseini persuaded the Germans to provide the commando team with poison to release into the city of Tel Aviv's water supply.
On the evening of October 6, 1944, a five- member unit parachuted from a small plane over the Jericho Valley. Hassan Salameh was one of the five. A German SS officer, Colonel Kurt Wieland, led the team.

'Palestine in the Second World War: Strategic Plans and Political Dilemmas, the Emergence of a New Middle East,' Dafnah Sharfman, Apollo Books, 2014 [ISBN1845195264, 9781845195267 ] p.86
Another event organizsed by the Mufti in cooperation with German Intelligence, was a thankfully unsuccessful attempt to poison Tel Aviv's water supply. During “Operation Atlas”, a unit of five paratroopers (three Germans and two Arabs) parachuted over Wadi Kelt near Jericho on 6 October 1944, but were soon captured by the British. The Mufti met with Hitler on 28 November 1941 — an encounter that came to symbolise his pro-Nazi policies.




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