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Juval Aviv

Juval Aviv is an Israeli-American security consultant who founded Interfor International, a corporate investigations firm in New York City.

born 1947Founding Interfor InternationalPan Am Flight 103 investigationThe account behind Vengeance

Born: 24 February 1947, Kfar Menahem
Occupation: historian

Juval Aviv was born in 1947 in Kfar Menahem

Juval Aviv was born Yuval Aviof in Kfar Menachem on February 24, 1947. He earned a master's degree from Tel Aviv University.

From 1968 to 1979 he served as a major in the IDF and in the Mossad. The Herald Sun reported that he took part in Mossad operations in many countries.

Aviv became president and CEO of Interfor, an investigative and intelligence firm. In 1989 Pan Am hired him to find who bombed Pan Am Flight 103. His report claimed a link to a heroin route watched by US agents, but a presidential commission found no basis for claims that US officials took part in such an operation.

Officials later called him a fabricator, while court documents found by American RadioWorks referred to a past tie to Israeli intelligence. He has served as a source for the New York Times, Fox News Channel and ABC News.

His account of Mossad actions after the Munich massacre was the basis of George Jonas's 1984 book Vengeance, though his link to its character Avner is disputed. The book was adapted as Sword of Gideon in 1986 and as Steven Spielberg's Munich in 2005. He also writes under the pseudonym Sam Green.