This article is taken from the July 2022 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10 . On 23 February 1965, a team of six Israeli agents lured Herberts Cukurs, a Latvian exile living in Brazil, to an empty property in Montevideo, Uruguay. The team leader had spent six months posing as an Austrian businessman in São Paulo, Brazil. In this guise he had befriended Cukurs and persuaded him to make some property investments, including the house in Montevideo. Cukurs had been a key figure in a...