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Recording reference code : CS - 133/ 3
Description
Split of 1940. His appointment as head of Lehi intelligence service. Rapprochement attempt between David Raziel and Avraham Stern (Yair). Zeev Jabotinsky cable about the split. Causes for split - establishing nationalist cells in Poland; relations between Jabotinsky, Hatzach (New Zionist Organization) and Etzel; Yair's disappointment with arrangement of power relations between Revisionist Movement and Etzel; Jabotinsky command to conquer Jerusalem as act of protest; Hatzach effort against elements in Etzel; Yair's relations with Polish Foreign Minister, receiving military training and weapons at a nominal price. Initial organization of Lehi, imprisonment of interviewee in Mizra, betrayal of Israel Pritzker.
Raziel death in Iraq. Attempts to contact the Axis powers to fight the British. Resignation of Hanoch Kalai and Binyamin Zeroni from Lehi. Escape of interviewee from Mizra. Imprisonment of Yitzhak Shamir, Yehoshua Zetler and Yosef Broshi. Internal advocacy, sabotage training, operating radio station. Lehi headquarter meetings, planning operation on Yael Street 8 in Tel Aviv.

