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-{{Short description|Field intelligence officer of the Mossad}}
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-A '''Katsa''' is a field [[intelligence (information gathering)|intelligence]] officer of the [[Mossad]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Mossad's licence to kill |date=17 February 2010 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7254807/Mossads-licence-to-kill.html }}</ref> the national [[intelligence agency]] of [[Israel]]. The word ''katsa'' is a Hebrew acronym for {{lang-he|קצין איסוף|ktsin issuf}},  "intelligence officer", literally "gathering officer".  A katsa is a [[case officer]] who runs agents to clandestinely collect intelligence.
-==Use of ''sayanim''==
-''Katsas'' may utilise ''sayanim'', singular: ''sayan'', ({{lang-he|סייענים}}, lit. ''Helpers, Assistants'') for their operations. The concept of Sayanim was started by [[Meir Amit]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Gordon |year=2015 |title=Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-0330375375}}</ref> Sayanim are recruited to provide support for Mossad operations, and may or may not receive payment. A sayan running a car rental agency, for instance, could help Mossad officers rent a car without the usual documentation.<ref>{{cite news |last=Thomas |first=Gordon |date=17 February 2010  |title=Mossad's licence to kill |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7254807/Mossads-licence-to-kill.html |work=Daily Telegraph |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Kahana |first=Ephraim |author-link= |year=2006 |title=Historical Dictionary of Israeli Intelligence (Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence) |url= |location= |publisher=Scarecrow Press; Illustrated edition |page=244 |isbn=978-0810855816}}</ref> Sayanim are often not citizens of Israel or may be dual nationals.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Richelson  |first1=Jeffrey T. |date=15 February 2007 |title=The Mossad Imagined: The Israeli Secret Service in Film and Fiction |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08850600600889431?mobileUi=0&journalCode=ujic20 |journal=International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=138 |doi= 10.1080/08850600600889431|s2cid=154278415 |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The article about Mossad *in film and fiction* doesn't seem to be an appropriate source|date=January 2021}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Dajani |first=Jamal |date=6 December 2017 |title=Mossad's Little Helpers |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mossads-little-helpers_b_487173 |work=Huffington Post |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=Huffpost contributors are unreliable per Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#HuffPost_contributors|date=January 2021}} The use of sayanim enables the Mossad to operate with a smaller budget to conduct operations worldwide.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hallel |first=Amir |date=1 October 2004 |title=At home with the Mossad men |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/at-home-with-the-mossad-men/DUYRY353K67IPSLKMGKSNBJVTI/ |work=New Zealand Herald |access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref>
-==Notable ''katsas''==
-* [[David Barnea]], Mossad director appointed in 2021
-* [[Victor Ostrovsky]], author
-* [[Baruch Cohen]], assassinated by [[Black September Organization]] in 1973
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-[[Category:Spies by role]]
-[[Category:Mossad]]
-[[de:Führungsoffizier]]