Talk:Operation Plumbat

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question

Just wondering, how did Germany react?--85.144.133.46 (talk) 11:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

React to what? It seems nothing like this ever happened. If a entire ship crew disappears, would noone ask questions? The Spiegel magazine had a story on in in 1978 (http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-40606718.html), with very little to say about the crew's fate. No names, no research, no real questions, just rumors. Now, what could be the point of spreading rumors about Israel's secret service? --88.74.202.158 (talk) 19:25, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Question: What about quoting the book: Enrico Jacchia L'affaire "Plumbat" - 2000 tonnes d'uranium ont disparu, Seuil 1978 - L’affare Plumbat – Allarme nucleare – La scomparsa del carico di morte che inquieta il mondo, Mondadori 1978. A. B.81.246.207.146 (talk) 13:48, 4 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

The first paragraph and the sources (note the identical formatting; unique, not MLA, nor APA) of this stub were lifted from http://intellit.muskingum.edu/israel_folder/israelplumbat.html Since then changes have been made, such as naming the ship and the Turkish port, but otherwise it is a verbatim plagiarism. The original author went to great lengths to document the sources, thus is is highly unlikely that Wikipedia was the one that was plagiarized. In the search for a better article, we might heed the advice of the original author and set aside

Eisenberg, Dennis, Eli Landau, and Menahem Portugali. Operation Uranium Ship. New York: Signet, 1978.

as a source. The original author cites

Constantinides, George C. Intelligence and Espionage: An Analytical Bibliography. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.

as concluding that Eisenburg et al's report that "the disappearance in 1968 of a cargo of uranium 'is either unreliable or unsubstantiated'." Rather, we should review the book "The Plumbat Affair" by Davenport, Eddy, and Gilman, ISBN 978-0397012480. Since this book, as well as the others are nearly 30 years old, I suspect it may be awhile before this article becomes more than a stub. Until then, the plagiarized material is better removed, for if it is left in, it will only be corrected through paraphrasing, which is still a copyright violation. Sorry for making a stub stubier. 216.199.224.138 (talk) 21:41, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]