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Today is the 51s anniversary of the Egyptian Special Operation in 1970 to damage the Israeli oil rig in Abidjan, off the coast of Cote D'Ivoire . The rig was intended to be operated in Sinai! This goes to prove more and more about my theory that they were planning on keeping the Sinai for as long as they could, maybe even annex it should that opportunity arise. Good thing that was quickly erased out of their minds in October of 1973 and shortly thereafter.
Back to this oil rig.
At the time, Abidjan was full of not only Mossad agents protecting the oil rig, but also with CIA agents who were guarding the NASA astronauts during their visit to Côte D'Ivoire.
Also Israel was precariously protecting the rig by operating it through 4 countries.
The main operating companies were from US and the UK, while the rig itself was rented from Canada, and the pulling ship from the Netherlands .
Egyptian intelligence spotted the rig for first time in Port-Alfred, Canada! Then they kept tabs on it in Ponta Delgada -Portugal, then in Dakar, Senegal, and then eventually in Abidjan on the coast of Le Cote D'Ivoire where it was attacked by the Egyptian frogmen who planted sets of explosives, had them detonated and severely and effectively damaged the oil rig. All this surveillance and planning and attacking in the night and underwater went without a single hitch and especially without being discovered one bit.
Back in 1970, there wasn't a lot of reconnaissance options available to Egypt, especially for long distance to Canada all the way to Africa. So Egyptian Intelligence had used multiple agents on the ground and on water to trace and locate the rig through oceans transits, some of them were foreigners, one of them was a Canadian female journalist, and the others were two members of the Irish Republican Army and a restaurant owner in Portugal .
Some Egyptian agents transferred the explosives from Egypt through European airports by private planes all the way to cote D'Ivoire.
After blowing up the rig in several vital areas and damaging it quite extensively, they couldn't fix it without paying so much that it exceeded the cost of renting it, so the Canadian company cancelled the contract with Israel and the rig was sold as a scrap. Mission successfully accomplished.
MORE IMPORTANTLY is the Israelis were denied steeling Egyptian oil from Sinai in their illegal attempted theft of it! That, along with the great intelligence and quiet work behind the scenes while never being discovered and of course, the successful Special Ops mission that rendered the rig a complete waste of a heaping pile of steaming dung! lol. You see, you only hear of the failed stuff that makes the news etc. But you never really hear about these many successful special ops missions the Egyptian Armed Forced successfully pulled off, and better that way.
The route of the rig's travel until it met its demise at the hands of Egyptian Special Operations Frogmen.
Back to this oil rig.
At the time, Abidjan was full of not only Mossad agents protecting the oil rig, but also with CIA agents who were guarding the NASA astronauts during their visit to Côte D'Ivoire.
Also Israel was precariously protecting the rig by operating it through 4 countries.
The main operating companies were from US and the UK, while the rig itself was rented from Canada, and the pulling ship from the Netherlands .
Egyptian intelligence spotted the rig for first time in Port-Alfred, Canada! Then they kept tabs on it in Ponta Delgada -Portugal, then in Dakar, Senegal, and then eventually in Abidjan on the coast of Le Cote D'Ivoire where it was attacked by the Egyptian frogmen who planted sets of explosives, had them detonated and severely and effectively damaged the oil rig. All this surveillance and planning and attacking in the night and underwater went without a single hitch and especially without being discovered one bit.
Back in 1970, there wasn't a lot of reconnaissance options available to Egypt, especially for long distance to Canada all the way to Africa. So Egyptian Intelligence had used multiple agents on the ground and on water to trace and locate the rig through oceans transits, some of them were foreigners, one of them was a Canadian female journalist, and the others were two members of the Irish Republican Army and a restaurant owner in Portugal .
Some Egyptian agents transferred the explosives from Egypt through European airports by private planes all the way to cote D'Ivoire.
After blowing up the rig in several vital areas and damaging it quite extensively, they couldn't fix it without paying so much that it exceeded the cost of renting it, so the Canadian company cancelled the contract with Israel and the rig was sold as a scrap. Mission successfully accomplished.
MORE IMPORTANTLY is the Israelis were denied steeling Egyptian oil from Sinai in their illegal attempted theft of it! That, along with the great intelligence and quiet work behind the scenes while never being discovered and of course, the successful Special Ops mission that rendered the rig a complete waste of a heaping pile of steaming dung! lol. You see, you only hear of the failed stuff that makes the news etc. But you never really hear about these many successful special ops missions the Egyptian Armed Forced successfully pulled off, and better that way.
The route of the rig's travel until it met its demise at the hands of Egyptian Special Operations Frogmen.
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