Secret Agent Mann

**Mossad Agent Who Captured Eichmann Dies

Peter "Zvika" Malchin, the legendary Mossad agent who physically captured Adolf Eichmann, died in New York on Monday and is being brought to Israel for burial, THE JERUSALEM POST reported. Malchin, who was 77, will be buried at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv at 11 am on Friday. Former comrades are expected to eulogize him, including former Mossad head Meir Amit.
Raised in Poland, Malchin represented a different breed of secret agent from a time when spies would sneak into factories and secretly photograph blueprints of missiles, or catch enemy spies. He eventually became chief of operations of the Mossad during the 1960s. While many of his covert tales can never be told, he is best known for his 1960 role in the Mossad's most famous operation in which he personally nabbed Eichmann, the SS officer who symbolized the horror of Hitler's Final Solution.
"He was an ambassador of extraordinary and clandestine Israeli might," journalist and long-time friend Uri Dan said.
"Malchin convinced his commanders to let him trail Eichmann alone in order not to scare him off," Dan explained. "He told me later: 'I was determined to catch him because the eyes of six million are following me.'"
Malchin often went by his pen name of Peter Mann. He was an internationally acclaimed artist who used this trade as his cover. A recent article about him in The New York Times referred to him as "the artist who captured Eichmann." In recent years he made his home in both Israel and New York, where he enjoyed the art scene.