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🗓️ 29 May 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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0:00.0 | The Masad is the Israeli version of the CIA. |
0:03.2 | Think top secret spies, agents who deny they work there. |
0:07.2 | So I was surprised to learn that there has been a tradition where one day a year, |
0:11.1 | the Masad throws open its doors to the families of the employees. |
0:14.7 | And the keys used to come. |
0:15.9 | Wait, the Masad has take your son or daughter to work day? |
0:19.6 | Yeah, why not? |
0:23.4 | Avaner Abraham is a former Masad agent with a passion for history. |
0:27.3 | He would set up these elaborate exhibits for the kids, |
0:30.0 | with, say, a typewriter from the 50s that typed in Morse code, or old spy gear. |
0:35.4 | Like you have television, but inside you can find camera. |
0:38.9 | I think that old objects got energy. |
0:43.5 | One day a top guy told him he had something to show him in a refrigerated archive in the Masad basement. |
0:49.3 | It was in the column. |
0:50.7 | Ten boxes of stuff, all from one old operation. |
0:54.4 | It looks like someone said, okay, let's put everything in boxes and put it in the corner and don't touch it for 50 years. |
1:00.2 | Avaner finds an old-like camera, a kit to make fake license plates, a pocket diary in code. |
1:06.2 | I remember that I opened one of the, or enveloped, a brown envelope, |
1:10.6 | and I saw all these very passport from the fifth set. |
1:13.2 | Israeli passports from the 50s had blue cloth and gold letters. |
1:17.2 | The opens one of them. |
1:18.6 | The name is in Hebrew. |
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