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2007.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Anticipating an armed conflict in Palestine after World War II, the Haganah embarked upon a large-scale effort to buy armaments to be sent to Palestine. Through front companies, and with the cooperation of certain Latin American governments, arms purchased primarily through the War Assets Administration, which sold surplus U.S. military equipment in the wake of World War II, were transferred illegally to Palestine, often via Czechoslovakia. This article places a group of prominent, wealthy, and politically connected Jewish Americans-referred to here as the Sonneborn group, a reference to the involvement of Rudolf Sonneborn-at the center of a network of Haganah operatives involved in this effort.
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