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Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel's Secret Wars

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Education, News, History

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

The history of Israel’s intelligence community—led by the feared and famous Mossad—includes stunning successes and embarrassing failures with important implications for war and peace today. CBS journalist Dan Raviv co-author with Israeli journalist Yossi Melman, of Spies Against Armageddon, traces this history from the country’s independence in 1948 right up to the crises of today.

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W s to stay ahead of the curve. You're going to be. Hello and welcome to an author debriefing from the International Spy Museum.

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I'm Mark Stout, the Museum's historian.

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Here at the museum we get the most interesting authors including journalists, scholars,

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former spies, and intelligence officers coming in to speak with our visitors

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and answer questions about their latest works dealing with espionage, intelligence, and other national

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security issues.

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Please join me in listening to another of our selected hour-long author debriefings.

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And we are very fortunate today to have with this Dan Reviv.

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To talk about the new book, he's co-authored with Yossi Melman called Spies against Armageddon

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inside Israel's Secret Wars. And how many days has the book been out now?

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Today's the second day. Today's the second day to launch. So you're in on a scoop. Dan Ravee is a national

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correspondent for CBS News and also a host of the CBS News weekend round up a radio magazine

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