I mean it’s totally plausible that some powerful state actors (or terrorists) would want an Israeli or (to a lesser degree) Italian intelligence agents dead
It’s much less plausible those actors would have either the desire or ability to kill them in a way that looks convincingly like a boating accident. I mean what would be the point? t’s not like, say, Iran would be made strategically safer by killing some old dudes on a boat. The only reason would do so was retaliation for the actions of Israeli intelligence against Iran. How does keeping it secret help that aim?
And in terms of ability as other posters have pointed out, it’s pretty hard to kill someone by means of a storm.
A German spy is sent to South Wales. His command of the English language is impeccable and he is given a contact called Jones in Swansea and the phrase; “The tide is out in Swansea Bay” to identify himself.
Unfortunately, he doesn’t know the house number, but nothing daunted, he knocks on the first house in the street. “Mrs Jones?” he says, and when she says she is, he repeats his phrase. She frowns at his posh English accent and then says; “Ah! You must want Jones the spy in No 14.”
But this boat was suddenly hit by a fierce storm with gusts of over 70km (43m) per hour.
“In a matter of 30 seconds, an apocalypse descended upon us,” was how Mr Carminati described the incident, according to the newspaper Corriere della Sera. “The boat immediately capsized, and we fell into the water.”
In the mid-'90s dad, neighbours, and I went out to ride JetSkis on Lake Havasu. We went out to dinner, and were gone for an hour or so. We got back to our campsite to find total disarray. Powerful winds had descended on the lake, and several boats were sunk.
