Nazi hunter 'helped Mossad'

Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal worked for Israel's Mossad spy agency, providing information on war criminals and Germans working in Arab countries, according to a new book.

Israeli historian Tom Segev reveals in Wiesenthal - The Life and Legends that the Holocaust survivor began working with Israeli intelligence even before the establishment of Mossad in 1949.

The book also says that, in 1948, Mr Wiesenthal participated in a failed attempt to capture senior Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was later kidnapped by Israeli agents in Argentina and executed in Israel. Mr Wiesenthal, who tracked down hundreds of Nazis, died in 2005.