Exodus, Part 1/3: The Telegram | Mossad

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the late 1970s, the Mossad launched one of history's most audacious missions: Operation Brothers. Their goal? To rescue thousands of Ethiopian Jews facing violence, and bring them safely to Israel. In this deep three-part retelling of the very first True Spies story, Sophia Di Martino meets Mossad operatives Daniel Limor, Rubi Viterbo and Gad Shimron, who worked undercover to lead the covert evacuations. We also hear from Takele Mekonen, one of the thousands of Jews saved during the operation. In Part One, Dani Limor recounts the frantic early days of the mission, and his partnership with the heroic Ethiopian that helped to make it possible - Ferede Aklum. From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Max Bower. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:02.0	Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome.
0:06.0	This is True Spies.
0:09.0	The podcast that takes you deep inside the greatest secret missions of all time.
0:15.0	Week by week you'll hear the true stories behind the operations that have shaped the world we live in.
0:22.0	True Spies.
0:23.0	You'll meet the people who live life undercover.
0:27.0	What do they know? What are their skills? And what would you do in their position?
0:35.0	This is True Spies.
0:38.0	It was an area where there was a lot of fighting.
0:41.0	If you get into crossfire, it doesn't matter if you're Jewish or you're not Jewish, it doesn't matter.
0:46.0	Bullet is a bullet.
0:48.0	I'm Sophia DiMartino and this is True Spies from Spicecape Studios.
0:54.0	Exodus.
1:06.0	Ethiopia 1976.
1:08.0	The country is convulsed by civil war.
1:12.0	Since taking power in a bloody coup, the ruling Marxist military junta known as the Doug has waged a campaign of red terror against a swath of opposition groups ranging from anti-communists to erotrain separatists.
1:29.0	No one is safe.
1:31.0	And there's one group in particular danger from their Christian and Muslim neighbours.
1:36.0	An ethnic minority unknown to most of the world. Up until the civil war, they had lived in an uneasy coexistence with their fellow citizens.
1:46.0	But now their very existence was a target.
1:50.0	Their name?
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