The Allon Dossier

Full Name:

Gabriel Allon

Height:

Medium

Weight:

Medium

Eyes:

Green

Hair:

Black with gray temples

Place of Birth:

Jezreel Valley, Israel

Date of Birth:

Unknown

Higher Education:

Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem

Known Residences:

Cornwall, Venice, Jerusalem

Current Residence:

Thought to be living in Italy under Vatican protection

Employer:

Office of Intelligence and Special Tasks, Israel

Status:

Semi-retired

Area of Expertise:

Intelligence collection, special investigations, kidnap and capture, interrogation, assassination

First Known Op:

Wrath of God, 1972-1975; personally liquidated six terrorists responsible for Munich Olympics massacre

Weapon of Choice:

Beretta

Known Aliases:

Mario Delvecchio, Alessio Vianelli, Heinrich Kiever, Johannes Klemp, Natan Golani, Ehud Landau, Gideon Argov

Cover:

Art Restorer

Area of Expertise:

Italian Old Master

Favorite Painters:

Titian, Bellini, Caravaggio

Favorite Opera:

La Bohème

Languages:

English, Hebrew, German, Italian, French

Last Known Op:

The Kharkov Affair, Moscow

Known Associates:

Ari Shamron, former chief of Israeli intelligence
Uzi Navot, chief of Israeli Special Ops
Eli Lavon, Office surveillance specialist
Chiara Zolli, Office field operative
Mikhail Abramov, Office assassin and field operative
Yossi Gavish, Office analyst and field operative
Dina Sarid, Office terrorism analyst and field operative
Yaakov Rossman, Shin Bet officer on loan to the Office
Rimona Stern, AMAN analyst on loan to the Office
Julian Isherwood, London art dealer
Francesco Tiepolo, prominent Venetian restorer
Adrian Carter, deputy director for operations, CIA
Sarah Bancroft, Counterterrorism Center operative, CIA
Graham Seymour, deputy director, MI5
Monsignor Luigi Donati, papal private secretary
Pietro Lucchesi, His Holiness Pope Paul VII

Family:

Parents deceased; first wife seriously wounded in 1991 bombing in Vienna; only son killed in same attack; rumored to have recently wed Office field operative Chiara Zolli