Mossad Snipers Shot an Arms Dealer From the Top of a Moving Ferris Wheel

Nice, France, July 22, 1978. On the Promenade des Anglais at the peak of the Riviera summer, a Lebanese-Armenian arms broker who had booked the same top-floor balcony for six consecutive Julys poured his evening Ricard at 7 p.m. and never came inside. A quarter mile east, a 32-metre traveling Ferris wheel with 20 gondoles turned at 180 seconds per rotation over the Jardin Albert Ier gardens. Its apex — the top of its arc — sat 15 metres above the intervening rooftops, and from the sixth car it looked straight into the balcony for 11 seconds every rotation. This is the story of Operation Apex, the shot Israel's Caesarea department took from a public fairground ride at Nice's closing night of the 1978 Jazz Festival. Subscribe to the channel: @projectdeclassified In this video, we talk about how a two-man Mossad team measured a fairground wheel's rotation across a Riviera season, including how the target's six-year pattern on the Promenade des Anglais built his own file, the Belgian-journalist cover legend that put a watcher three streets back from the sea, the discovery of the wheel's line of sight over Nice's Belle Époque rooflines, the recce rides that fixed the 11-second apex dwell, the Steyr SSG 69 in the false floor of a Renault 12 out of Ventimiglia, the closing-night crowd of the Nice Jazz Festival with Ray Charles at the Arènes de Cimiez, the eleven seconds at the top of the sixth car, and the DST file that quietly moved to Paris in August. 🔔 Subscribe so you never miss an operation the record was told to lose. 💬 Comment where you're watching from and what you make of Operation Apex — should a fairground ride ever be a firing point, even at the arithmetic that no bystander was hurt? 📢 Share this one on Facebook, Reddit, or with the friend who reads Le Carré for the tradecraft — the audience is why files like this get told. ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: Our videos may contain fictionalized or deliberately dramatized elements created to enhance the storytelling. Narratives may be informed by real events, historical patterns, unofficial reports, rumors, or widely shared accounts whose accuracy cannot be independently verified. We make no claim that events occurred exactly as portrayed, and we do not assume responsibility for interpretations or conclusions drawn by viewers. This content is produced for educational and entertainment purposes — to provide historical context, examine recurring themes in real-world events, and encourage thoughtful assessment of sources and narratives. #ProjectDeclassified #Mossad #OperationApex #SpyOperation #ColdWar #Nice1978 #Riviera #ArmsBroker #Caesarea #Kidon #FerrisWheelSniper #PromenadeDesAnglais #EspionageHistory #DeclassifiedFiles #Tradecraft #SniperOperation #CovertOperations #MiddleEast1970s #ForeignIntelligence #IsraeliIntelligence #SpyThriller