About this episode
John Spencer interviews former Mossad director Yossi Cohen about the 2018 raid in Tehran that uncovered Iran's nuclear weapons program.
In January 2018, Mossad operatives infiltrated a secret warehouse in Tehran, Iran, broke into dozens of massive safes, and in just under seven hours extracted more than one hundred thousand documents and over half a ton of material detailing Iran’s covert nuclear weapons program. The raid, code-named Operation Stealing the Reality, was the result of two years of planning. In this episode, John Spencer speaks with Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad who led the organization through this extraordinary urban operation. Their conversation reveals the extraordinary detail, preparation, and risk behind a raid that changed history.
People in this episode
Host: John Spencer
Guest: Yossi Cohen
Topics covered
- Mossad
- Tehran
- Iran
- nuclear weapons
- urban operations
Keywords
- Operation Stealing the Reality
- intelligence
- covert operations
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Tehran, Iran
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