ABSTRACT
Operation Atlas was the landing of five German and Arab paratroopers near Jericho in October 1944. It was the only known German–Arab parachuted espionage mission to Palestine. Founded by German intelligence cooperation with the exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini. Three of the five, two German Templers from Palestine and one Arab from Jerusalem, were captured ten days after their landing in a cave near Jericho. They told their intriguing stories to their British interrogators. The details of their preparations for the mission, capture, and several interrogations is detailed here as presented in the British Intelligence files.
