Rise and Kill First | Mossad

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🗓️ 31 August 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Ronen Bergman is comfortable in the company of spies. As one of Israel's foremost investigative journalists, he's been privy to the inner workings of the country's legendary intelligence community. But when he was tasked with writing a definitive history of the Mossad's targeted assassinations, he came up against serious resistance from inside the organisation. Vanessa Kirby gets the inside scoop on a unique and secretive institution. How far would YOU go for the truth? From SPYSCAPE, the home of secrets. A Cup And Nuzzle production. Series producers: Gemma Newby, Joe Foley. Produced by Joe Foley. Music by Nick Ryan.

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0:00.0	Incoming transmission.
0:05.2	Welcome. Welcome to True Spies.
0:09.6	Week by week, mission by mission.
0:12.4	You'll hear the true stories behind the world's greatest espionage operations.
0:19.2	You'll meet the people who navigate this secret world.
0:24.4	What do they know? What are their skills?
0:27.6	And what would you do in their position?
0:32.0	This is True Spies.
0:34.0	That he tells me that by 1982, early 1983,
0:38.0	the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Ariel Sharon, ordered the Air Force to take out a commercial airline
0:43.6	with hundreds of passengers on board above the ocean in order to kill Yasarrafa,
0:48.8	the Chief of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, that was on board.
0:52.4	This is True Spies.
0:54.4	Episode 71.
0:57.6	Rise and Kill First.
1:04.8	This story begins in an ordinary commercial building, early in 2010.
1:10.4	And it is ordinary. There's no facade, no hidden depths.
1:15.6	Welcome to the tasteful, well-appointed offices of Penguin Random House,
1:20.8	the world's largest book publisher.
1:23.6	Today, the company's editor-in-chief has a meeting penciled in with a best-selling author
1:29.2	in their non-fiction stable.
1:31.2	He's also one of Israel's best-known investigative journalists.
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