I am Aviva Guttmann and I can assure you that this conversation never happened. Instead of talking to Mossad officers, I have, in fact, written a book (based on archival material) about Operation Wrath of God, Mossad’s secret assassination campaign following the 1972 Munich massacre. The book, published in August 2025 with Cambridge University Press, has been widely reviewed and well-received by the media (the Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal and the Spectator, among others). It reveals for the first time how Western intelligence agencies helped hunt and kill Palestinians suspected of terrorist attacks on European soil. Reviews suggested that “it reads like a John le Carré thriller. Packed with new revelations and details”.

What happened next was, to say the least, unsettling. Days after the publication of Operation Wrath of God, another book was on sale on Amazon called: The Woman Who Knew Too Much: Aviva Guttmann’s Mission for Truth: How One Historian Uncovered the Secrets Behind Mossad, Munich and the Cold War. This other book claimed to be a “meticulously researched” biography of myself with “pulse-pounding revelations”. However, it is, in fact, an AI-generated, complete invention of my life. Such AI-generated copycat books are a growing phenomenon and something that Amazon, as far as I can see thus far, is refusing to properly engage with.

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