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- Hello. Hi.
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- Hello. About your book,
- if you could call me back...
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- on my mobile. Thank you.
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- Please, hello, can you
- call me? It's about your book.
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- Thank you.
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- Hello, hi, good afternoon.
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- If you can call me,
- I'm the subject of your book.
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- Thank you.
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- At around
- one o'clock, Ashraf Marwan,
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- an Egyptian super spy...
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- fell off the balcony...
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- in Carlton Terrace,
- Central London.
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- The medics were directed
- to a small rose garden,
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- he uttered a few
- words and he died.
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- 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,680
- When I was told,
- my mind was racing.
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- 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,120
- I asked myself, "Was he pushed?"
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- "Did he jump?"
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- The rumor was, especially in Egypt,
- that it was not an accident.
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- It was a murder.
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- 1948, in Palestine, Jews
- declared the State of Israel.
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- Over the next day, Egypt and
- the Arab neighbors invaded.
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- So, for years, Israel and Egypt
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- hated each other.
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- And Ashraf Marwan was one
- of the greatest modern spies
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- at the center of the conflict.
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- Ironically Israel regarded Marwan as their best agent ever.
- He was the number one source of Israeli intelligence.
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- Few agents in history
- provided such...
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- splendid information.
- Out of this world.
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- His death is a mystery.
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- 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:32,400
- The rumor was it was a murder,
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- and just the day before he told
- me that he feared for his life,
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- 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,160
- but who did it?
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- The Egyptian intelligence
- killed Ashraf Marwan,
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- because he was a traitor.
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- The Israelis believe
- that he was their man,
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- but he tricked the Israelis
- into taking him seriously.
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- He served Egypt well.
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- Ashraf Marwan's wife, Mona,
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- she thought that he may have
- been murdered by the Israelis.
- 40
- 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,400
- And when I think about it now,
- 41
- 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:14,440
- I'm still asking myself,
- "Was I responsible?"
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- 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,520
- I was the one who
- unmasked him to the world.
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- 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,600
- In 2007,
- June 27th, I got a phone call
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- about the mysterious death that
- had happened just hours earlier.
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- Of course, I'm intrigued.
- Who wouldn't be?
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- 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,280
- And as a journalist I wanted
- to get to the bottom of it.
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- 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,160
- The most pressing, immediate
- issue was how did he die?
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- Was it murder? Suicide?
- Was it an accident?
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- 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,320
- So, this is the place
- from which he fell.
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- He fell five floors down.
- 51
- 00:05:22,320 --> 00:05:26,160
- The family insisted that he
- had a whole set of plans,
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- family functions to attend,
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- 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,839
- he had a business
- meeting on that very day
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- in that building there.
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- That's why the family believes
- that there was just no truth
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- to rumors that he could
- have killed himself.
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- 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:46,279
- I wanted to get to the truth,
- but that turned out to be
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- 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,040
- a lot trickier than
- I first imagined.
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- Well, the day he died,
- I was waiting for him to phone.
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- 00:06:01,840 --> 00:06:04,840
- I thought that something is
- wrong with the reception.
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- 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:10,760
- So, I went up the stairs to see
- whether or not he left me a message.
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- But nothing.
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- 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,920
- I have always been interested
- in Middle Eastern wars.
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- When I was in the
- military it was known
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- there was a super spy who worked
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- with Israel's secret
- intelligence service.
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- But the Israeli military
- censorship made sure
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- that nothing is written about it.
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- A great secret.
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- Six Arabs killed here
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- in the West Bank, seven in Gaza.
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- When the Palestinian
- uprising of 1987 started...
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- 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:58,840
- ...it was a turning point for me.
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- I saw Israeli soldiers
- beating a Palestinian.
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- I said, "This is madness.
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- You are inflicting on the
- Palestinians the same pain
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- that other nations have
- inflicted on the Jews,
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- and I'm not coming back until
- the violence has stopped."
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- "Big deal, Ahron Bregman
- is not coming back..."
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- And I'd emigrate to the UK.
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- After I finished my PhD
- on the Arab-Israeli conflict,
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- I joined the Department
- of War Studies
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- at King's College London.
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- Have we discussed the
- spy here in class or not?
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- Was it mentioned?
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- Yeah, no.
- Right.
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- And I've published six
- books you know nothing about...
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- It's a joke. Don't use it.
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- I'm using that.
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- In 1998, I was a consultant
- on a major documentary,
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- and I interviewed the director
- of Military Intelligence
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- in Israel, General Eli Zeira.
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- When we finished the interview,
- we were standing
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- in the corridor,
- and what he said to me there
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- changed everything for me.
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- He said that the Mossad's
- top spy was a double agent.
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- I was shocked to the core.
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- What were the implications
- of the spy being a double?
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- If he was a double agent
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- during one of the most important
- wars in Middle Eastern history,
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- then all the intelligence the
- Israeli's based their decisions on
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- would be cast into doubt.
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- Israel is dependent
- on her intelligence.
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- They have to get it right always,
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- and if their best
- spy misled them,
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- it will just ruin the reputation.
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- 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,400
- Therefore,
- the intelligence service...
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- Okay, Amos.
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- 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:19,800
- ...they have an interest...
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- What was at risk?
- What was at stake?
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- ...in keeping the story intact.
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- 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:26,880
- It's a sensitive subject.
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- 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:32,880
- The young Bregman
- was uber-motivated.
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- 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,440
- A scoop like this was something
- I'd always dreamt about,
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- 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:45,440
- but then I thought it might be
- a very dangerous game.
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- Ashraf Marwan was...
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- the son of an army general,
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- and people see in that
- a sign of social seniority.
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- 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:18,720
- He graduated in chemistry.
- 120
- 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:19,880
- At the same time...
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- 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:26,160
- he met Mona, daughter
- of Gamal Abdel Nasser...
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- President in Egypt.
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- They fell in love.
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- He knew how...
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- 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:45,480
- to jump to the good bed.
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- He married the daughter of
- Nasser. The almighty Nasser.
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- 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:55,800
- Nasser was like
- God for the Arabs.
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- 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,240
- Idol.
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- 00:10:57,720 --> 00:10:58,760
- Nasser.
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- 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:05,720
- 1967, this was a crisis
- moment for Nasser.
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- 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:11,560
- Israel crippled the Egyptian
- Air Force on the ground.
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- 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,920
- And then,
- Egypt lost the Sinai Peninsula.
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- 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:28,240
- Egypt felt disbelief that this
- could happen to us.
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- 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,040
- It was a dent in the dignity
- of the country,
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- 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,760
- and the process of rebuilding
- the army started
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- 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:40,240
- for one objective,
- launching a war,
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- 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:42,960
- regaining the Sinai,
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- 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:48,600
- and regaining the sense of pride
- which every Egyptian felt...
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- 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,080
- before 1967.
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- 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:55,359
- Marwan entered
- into the Nasser family
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- 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:56,600
- at this moment of crisis.
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- 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,640
- He wants to be important,
- but Nasser didn't entrust
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- 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:06,799
- into him the kind of missions
- that Ashraf Marwan believed,
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- 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,040
- "Now when I marry into the family
- I'll get them."
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- 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,520
- Nasser, he felt that this guy
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- 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:18,319
- did not want to marry the girl
- for her personality,
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- 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,120
- he wanted to marry the daughter
- of the President.
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- 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:28,760
- So, Nasser gave Ashraf Marwan a
- junior position in the presidency.
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- 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,520
- It was like when you have
- adversary politician,
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- 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:34,920
- you bring him close to keep him
- under your eye,
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- 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:38,120
- rather than leave him free
- to wreak havoc.
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- 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:44,200
- Ashraf felt in a way
- demeaned, punished,
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- 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:47,600
- and made him resent Nasser.
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- 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,720
- So, he came to London
- with his new wife.
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- 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:57,880
- But reports back home...
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- 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:04,120
- indicated that he was loving
- an expensive lifestyle,
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- 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:05,800
- nightclubs,
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- 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:08,120
- restaurants,
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- 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:12,400
- living beyond the means...
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- 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:16,360
- of the ordinary Egyptians.
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- 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:24,159
- Nasser
- lived a very frugal life
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- 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,200
- and he felt that it was
- highly embarrassing.
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- 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,760
- Nasser shunted
- them back to Cairo.
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- 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:36,240
- Ashraf felt that he was
- handcuffed with Nasser.
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- 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,520
- So, he wants to take
- revenge on his father-in-law.
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- 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:00,239
- Israel leaders
- call it a total destruction
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- 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:01,560
- of Egypt's Sinai forces.
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- 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:12,440
- Immediately
- after the Six-Day War of '67...
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- 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,360
- the issue of a possible war
- down the road with Egypt...
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- 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,720
- was the number one
- priority of the Mossad.
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- 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,160
- Every country,
- every government
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- 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,200
- has to deal with the intentions
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- 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:39,680
- of our enemies,
- and the more you know about it,
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- 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:44,440
- the better you can prevent a war.
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- 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:51,480
- So, military intelligence for the
- Mossad was very, very important.
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- 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:58,440
- The Mossad
- is responsible for...
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- 00:15:00,200 --> 00:15:03,440
- collection and
- special operations.
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- 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:22,000
- This is not the CIA.
- CIA deals with all the world.
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- 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:26,320
- He has agent in South America,
- in Africa,
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- 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:30,120
- maybe in the Northern Pole,
- I don't know.
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- 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,600
- Ev... All around the world.
- Here, in Israel, it is focused.
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- 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:40,600
- The arch enemies.
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- 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,360
- Can you describe
- for me your job, your role,
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- 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:48,840
- when you were
- working in the field?
- 185
- 00:15:48,880 --> 00:15:50,280
- No, I prefer not.
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- 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:06,200
- So, '67, at that moment, we
- started to look for intelligence
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- 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,280
- that would either support, or...
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- 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,480
- or the opposite, the issue of war
- down the road with Egypt.
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- 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,119
- Did you have any concerns
- about the possible implications
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- 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,000
- of unmasking a spy?
- 191
- 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,880
- Look, Tom, the Mossad
- could be very dangerous
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- 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:48,080
- and unmasking one of the spies
- could have endangered me,
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- 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:50,600
- but I had to know.
- 194
- 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,720
- It was a risk, it was a gamble.
- I am a bit reckless.
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- 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:01,440
- What did your wife
- have to say about all this?
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- 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,960
- I knew that she
- would be unhappy...
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- 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:09,599
- to see me involved
- in such a thing.
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- 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,720
- She was much more responsible
- and less reckless than me,
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- 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:18,080
- so I told her nothing
- of my spy games.
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- 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:30,800
- I poured over hundreds
- of articles and books
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- 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,480
- looking for clues
- to see who he was.
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- 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,120
- And I read anything that
- I could put my hands on.
- 203
- 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,959
- And then a key book
- came into my hand,
- 204
- 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,560
- which is the biography
- of Eli Zeira,
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- 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,280
- the man who said to me that
- there was a double agent
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- 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:54,520
- who misled the Mossad.
- 207
- 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,280
- Zeira writes about
- an unnamed spy,
- 208
- 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,999
- and then he mentioned
- three people
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- 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,639
- who were sitting in
- a meeting in Riyadh.
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- 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:05,440
- King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
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- 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:08,160
- Sadat and a third man.
- 212
- 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,039
- I was very suspicious
- when Zeira did not mention
- 213
- 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,159
- the name of the third man
- in a chapter
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- 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,559
- where it's all about the spy.
- And you ask yourself
- 215
- 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:23,160
- "Why is it missing?"
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- 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,759
- So, the fact
- that it was missing...
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- 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,439
- Yeah, exactly.
- The fact that there was
- 218
- 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:28,159
- a missing piece of information...
- It was...
- 219
- 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,400
- It was an editing thing, you see?
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- 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:32,160
- "Why is it missing?"
- Mm.
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- 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:34,519
- So, maybe the
- name is not mentioned
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- 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:36,640
- because someone is
- trying to hide the name.
- 223
- 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,840
- But there is a reference,
- Robinson, page 136.
- 224
- 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:52,400
- 136. And here is the third man,
- Dr Ashraf Marwan.
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- 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:58,400
- When I saw it all my red lights
- started flashing.
- 226
- 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:03,560
- My gut was telling me
- 227
- 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:06,960
- that his name was significant,
- Ashraf Marwan.
- 228
- 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:10,520
- It was an educated guess.
- 229
- 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:19,120
- And I sent a fax to Zeira,
- 230
- 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,120
- hoping that he would react
- and confirm the name.
- 231
- 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:29,240
- I took a punt, but his reply was,
- 232
- 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:31,880
- "I will not reveal."
- 233
- 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:36,640
- And this was a setback.
- 234
- 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:43,719
- But I wonder if
- there was something
- 235
- 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,480
- in the fact Zeira did not deny,
- 236
- 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,480
- so I thought that maybe
- I am on the right track.
- 237
- 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,839
- ...and refused to negotiate
- 238
- 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,359
- until they were removed.
- 239
- 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,959
- This was the position when
- the Arab world was dealt a blow
- 240
- 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:07,440
- from which it's still reeling.
- 241
- 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,639
- Now the explosive
- situation in the Middle East
- 242
- 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:10,920
- has been further complicated
- 243
- 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:14,080
- by the unexpected death of
- Egypt's President Nasser.
- 244
- 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,280
- This man, Anwar Sadat,
- took over as president-elect.
- 245
- 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:23,240
- I swear
- by Almighty God to uphold...
- 246
- 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:30,360
- The big bosses
- under the Nasser regime...
- 247
- 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,280
- they were...
- 248
- 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,920
- unsatisfied with Sadat.
- 249
- 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:39,560
- There was a kind of rebellion...
- 250
- 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:43,760
- ...and...
- 251
- 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,640
- Ashraf was very cunning, smart.
- 252
- 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:53,000
- Somehow Marwan got his hands
- on an archive...
- 253
- 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,799
- and turned it over to Sadat,
- 254
- 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:59,440
- and Sadat used some of
- the information in that archive
- 255
- 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,400
- to put his enemies on trial.
- 256
- 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,360
- Something
- personal? Or of a public nature?
- 257
- 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:12,360
- The truth
- is in the court's hands.
- 258
- 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:13,920
- It was
- very consequential
- 259
- 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,479
- in Marwan's future
- career to prove to Sadat
- 260
- 00:21:16,480 --> 00:21:19,439
- that his loyalty to
- him can come at a price
- 261
- 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,280
- of stabbing in the back
- Nasser's closest aids.
- 262
- 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:25,920
- We must
- make it clear to the public.
- 263
- 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,440
- And Sadat rewarded him. He appointed Ashraf to
- be... the secretary of the Presidential Office.
- 264
- 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:49,160
- He was part
- of Sadat's inner circle.
- 265
- 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,640
- At the time, he was not 30 yet,
- 266
- 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:59,680
- and that is the youngest man
- in the job ever.
- 267
- 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,480
- But knowing Ashraf Marwan,
- every step is calculated
- 268
- 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,040
- to build for what comes after.
- 269
- 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,240
- I was pretty sure
- Ashraf Marwan was the spy,
- 270
- 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,480
- but I needed a conformation.
- 271
- 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:33,920
- So, I thought that perhaps
- the editor of Zeira's book,
- 272
- 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,200
- Rami Tali, could help
- with the name of this spy.
- 273
- 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,160
- Obviously, the editor discussed
- the matter with Zeira,
- 274
- 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,240
- so I devised a plan.
- 275
- 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:51,520
- I then took a flight to Tel Aviv.
- 276
- 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,640
- Ronnie Bregman,
- he wanted to make sure
- 277
- 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,400
- that he has the right name.
- 278
- 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:05,680
- I knew the name,
- 279
- 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:08,360
- but I told him, "Ronnie,
- 280
- 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:13,800
- I don't know the name, but if I
- knew it I would not tell you."
- 281
- 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,040
- "I don't know the name,"
- "Don't make me..."
- 282
- 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:19,000
- This was how it was done.
- 283
- 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:24,080
- Ten minutes into the conversation
- when he was warmed up,
- 284
- 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:29,960
- but not yet tired of me,
- I looked him straight in the eye.
- 285
- 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,600
- And Ronnie said...
- 286
- 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:34,520
- "I know the name
- of the super spy."
- 287
- 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,200
- And I said, "Good for you,"
- and he said...
- 288
- 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,360
- Ashraf Marwan was the super spy.
- 289
- 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:46,560
- I was taken aback.
- 290
- 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:50,960
- His response was unmistakable.
- 291
- 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,440
- As far as I remember,
- I did not acknowledge it.
- 292
- 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,560
- He looked away and smiled.
- 293
- 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,040
- Bingo.
- 294
- 00:24:00,160 --> 00:24:01,800
- How do you say the
- English saying?
- 295
- 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,480
- That butter would
- not melt in my mouth.
- 296
- 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,520
- Butter very much
- melts in my mouth.
- 297
- 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,680
- So, uh, when he approached me
- with the name...
- 298
- 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,280
- Yeah,
- 299
- 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,800
- it was some kind of
- an acknowledgment.
- 300
- 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,400
- I returned
- to London a happy man.
- 301
- 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,520
- I had the name.
- 302
- 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,760
- I was delighted, really.
- 303
- 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:30,840
- Celebrating.
- 304
- 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:35,720
- But I had to confirm
- that he was a double agent.
- 305
- 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:44,240
- Okay, so how did the Mossad
- get involved with Ashraf Marwan?
- 306
- 00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,880
- He was a walk-in.
- 307
- 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,000
- One day in London,
- 308
- 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,560
- he decided to call
- the Israeli embassy.
- 309
- 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,760
- This is how moments
- in history are made.
- 310
- 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:16,560
- They are made out of pure luck,
- because when he called the embassy,
- 311
- 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,960
- luckily enough, the head of
- Mossad stations in Europe,
- 312
- 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,880
- Shmuel Goren,
- was visiting the station.
- 313
- 00:25:28,120 --> 00:25:30,640
- I was the
- head of Mossad in Europe.
- 314
- 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,480
- Somebody called.
- 315
- 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,600
- As soon as I heard the name,
- it immediately rang a bell,
- 316
- 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:39,840
- but I said, "No, it cannot be
- 317
- 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,600
- that someone like him
- would come to us.â€
- 318
- 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,400
- When recruiting
- a new agent,
- 319
- 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,640
- what are the risks to
- you, to the Mossad?
- 320
- 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,519
- To the Mossad, first that
- he might be a double agent.
- 321
- 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,720
- Number two, he's a liar.
- 322
- 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,200
- And number three is that
- he can surrender you,
- 323
- 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,040
- which is very dangerous.
- 324
- 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,080
- But being an intelligence
- officer, if you are not...
- 325
- 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:10,000
- suspicious as part of your
- culture and character,
- 326
- 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:14,280
- you stand a fair chance not to be a
- successful intelligence officer.
- 327
- 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:17,640
- And in the case of walk-ins,
- 328
- 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,560
- it is even more important
- to be suspicious.
- 329
- 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,160
- But he said, "The son-in-law of the
- Egyptian president is a walk-in?
- 330
- 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,000
- We cannot miss that opportunity."
- 331
- 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:38,760
- It was a gamble,
- 332
- 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,480
- because the difference
- in cases like these...
- 333
- 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,720
- is between receiving the Medal
- of Honor or facing disgrace.
- 334
- 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,080
- So, we improvised...
- 335
- 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,720
- against the official protocol.
- 336
- 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,120
- And we scheduled the meeting
- at the hotel that same day.
- 337
- 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,400
- The conversation was short.
- 338
- 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:11,000
- He gave us authentic minutes
- from meetings in Moscow...
- 339
- 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,960
- with the most high-ranking
- Russian officials
- 340
- 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,640
- and the most high-ranking
- Egyptian officials.
- 341
- 00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:24,680
- To be a fly on the wall in these kinds of
- meetings is the dream of any intelligence agent.
- 342
- 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:41,520
- My task was to go over
- the material he provided,
- 343
- 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,480
- and we couldn't find anything
- 344
- 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,520
- which gave us any doubt
- about his credibility.
- 345
- 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,000
- Okay, so what exactly
- did you do to be certain?
- 346
- 00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,640
- Listen, there's no point to...
- 347
- 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:59,320
- to... get into all the
- details, but...
- 348
- 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:01,360
- there was no one,
- 349
- 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,360
- or no one case,
- where anybody said, explicitly,
- 350
- 00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,880
- in a very determined way,
- that he was not authentic.
- 351
- 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,120
- Why would Marwan,
- now that Nasser was gone,
- 352
- 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,359
- and his ambition was being fulfilled,
- he was the right-hand man
- 353
- 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:18,360
- of the president...
- Yeah.
- 354
- 00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:20,160
- Why would he want to sell secrets
- to Israel?
- 355
- 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,960
- Why did he do it?
- 356
- 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:28,759
- To feel important,
- maybe to take revenge
- 357
- 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:33,440
- on his father-in-law,
- and thirdly, financial reward.
- 358
- 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:41,319
- All in all, the Mossad paid him $1
- million in the '70s, early '70s.
- 359
- 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,480
- It's a huge amount of money.
- 360
- 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:45,880
- Everything
- the Israelis say
- 361
- 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,280
- suggests it was resentment
- towards Nasser,
- 362
- 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:50,720
- hubris, money...
- And that doesn't add up to me.
- 363
- 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:56,560
- You have to look at
- the Ashraf Marwan angle.
- 364
- 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,000
- "I am a big shot."
- 365
- 00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,560
- How did Marwan
- spying for you work exactly?
- 366
- 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:12,800
- He accompanied Sadat...
- 367
- 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,640
- to meetings with leaders.
- 368
- 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:28,240
- He listened and was able to
- give us the inside information.
- 369
- 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,240
- When the
- Mossad met with Marwan,
- 370
- 00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,320
- the meeting,
- it take place in London.
- 371
- 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,880
- Marwan would provide
- his documents.
- 372
- 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:49,520
- He would get his money,
- then he would leave first...
- 373
- 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,200
- and the Israeli will leave after him. What was
- so valuable about the information he gave you?
- 374
- 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:05,960
- The most important pieces of information
- which Ashraf Marwan gave Israel...
- 375
- 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,160
- He brought the order of battle
- of the Egyptian Army.
- 376
- 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:16,520
- It means that Israel would know
- how Egypt were going to strike.
- 377
- 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:20,319
- And they would attack us only if
- 378
- 00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:24,320
- they have enough air cover
- provided by the Russians.
- 379
- 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,840
- It is very rare material.
- 380
- 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,800
- It was, in my opinion,
- an earthquake.
- 381
- 00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,320
- It was...
- 382
- 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:37,280
- beautiful.
- 383
- 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,920
- Beautiful. Really.
- 384
- 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,760
- I tried to piece together
- what happened to Ashraf Marwan.
- 385
- 00:30:58,120 --> 00:30:59,160
- Was it murder?
- 386
- 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:03,160
- Was it suicide?
- 387
- 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,240
- It is very interesting
- to be here.
- 388
- 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,320
- He was on this balcony here
- and he landed in these bushes.
- 389
- 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,720
- The family had always said
- that the trajectory of his fall
- 390
- 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:40,800
- was such that he fell away from the building to
- such an extent that he must have been thrown.
- 391
- 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,800
- You can only really see it
- when you're in the garden.
- 392
- 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,559
- You can start to see why
- the family were arguing
- 393
- 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,600
- it was bizarre
- 394
- 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:57,920
- that he landed several feet out
- into these bushes.
- 395
- 00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:03,199
- And when I spoke to
- Ashraf Marwan's wife,
- 396
- 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:07,840
- Mona, she thought that he may have
- been murdered by the Israelis.
- 397
- 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,759
- Based on this information,
- it was difficult to believe
- 398
- 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,440
- that he had just fallen
- out as part of an accident.
- 399
- 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,400
- I gathered a huge amount
- of data during my research.
- 400
- 00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,840
- This is Eli Zeira
- when he was young.
- 401
- 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,720
- He was a good-looking man
- and very clever.
- 402
- 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:38,840
- Very clever.
- 403
- 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,240
- I had the head of Israeli
- Military Intelligence telling me
- 404
- 00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,760
- this spy was a double agent.
- 405
- 00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,120
- This could only make Israel
- intelligence look bad,
- 406
- 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,240
- so I had to take notice of it.
- 407
- 00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:01,200
- And then I uncovered something big
- behind the meetings in London.
- 408
- 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:02,920
- Marwan was reckless,
- 409
- 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,440
- he would just do stupid things,
- take chances.
- 410
- 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,760
- He would phone the Israelis,
- the embassy, directly.
- 411
- 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:17,279
- Ignoring the careful system whereby
- you should phone them indirectly
- 412
- 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,560
- using a third party,
- a lady in London.
- 413
- 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:22,679
- Of course, all of the lines
- 414
- 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:27,160
- could have been taped
- by other agencies, by the MI6.
- 415
- 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,000
- And he would arrive in meetings
- 416
- 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,880
- driving the car of the
- Egyptian Embassy in London.
- 417
- 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:42,000
- The fact that Marwan was so
- confident to do such things
- 418
- 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,439
- in the open perhaps points
- to the fact that he knew
- 419
- 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,799
- that it's okay,
- he was a double agent
- 420
- 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,360
- and the Egyptians will accept it.
- 421
- 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:58,880
- So, my conclusion is that
- General Eli Zeira was correct.
- 422
- 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,280
- The spy was a double agent.
- 423
- 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:06,920
- Ronnie,
- I've spoken to the Mossad
- 424
- 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,920
- and what they are telling me
- is pretty compelling.
- 425
- 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,919
- I think that Ashraf Marwan
- 426
- 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:19,280
- was not the person
- the Israelis thought he was.
- 427
- 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:53,600
- Okay for sound?
- 428
- 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:55,320
- Ready?
- 429
- 00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:56,600
- Yeah.
- 430
- 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,639
- Abdallah, Israel believe
- Ashraf gave them everything.
- 431
- 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:02,640
- Good for them.
- 432
- 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,520
- Ashraf Marwan, I believe that
- he served Egypt well.
- 433
- 00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:12,640
- He did it under
- instructions from Sadat,
- 434
- 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,480
- he did not do it out
- of his own free will.
- 435
- 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:22,680
- Albeit, he was prepared to play
- the dangerous game.
- 436
- 00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:33,920
- When Sadat became president
- of Egypt, his first priority
- 437
- 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:39,840
- was to get back the lands
- Egypt lost in 1967.
- 438
- 00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:47,840
- It was a holistic
- movement within the country,
- 439
- 00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:53,120
- everyone coming together
- for one objective,
- 440
- 00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:59,160
- launching a war, regaining the Sinai,
- revitalizing the Arab world,
- 441
- 00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:04,080
- and creating a new spirit
- for the future.
- 442
- 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,800
- But knowing that the Israelis had
- 443
- 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:14,680
- weapons from the United States
- and western countries,
- 444
- 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,440
- it had to have some
- cunning in the plan.
- 445
- 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,680
- And Sadat has played this
- in the most perfect way.
- 446
- 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,040
- Sadat wanted a very
- convincing agent
- 447
- 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,880
- to feed information
- to the Israelis.
- 448
- 00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,080
- And...
- 449
- 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,880
- Ashraf Marwan was the best actor
- to play the part.
- 450
- 00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:53,400
- Everything was, like, stage-managed
- to the highest possible standard.
- 451
- 00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:00,520
- They studied very well
- the Israeli mentality
- 452
- 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,360
- to create the image
- to fool the Israelis.
- 453
- 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:09,000
- And he did not go to
- them on his knees.
- 454
- 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,600
- He went to them full of himself.
- 455
- 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:16,080
- The Ashraf Marwan angle...
- 456
- 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,920
- a playboy, fun-loving
- with a sense of pride.
- 457
- 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,360
- "I am a big shot."
- 458
- 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:26,600
- And he was very successful
- in convincing them
- 459
- 00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:29,840
- that he is serious
- about working for them.
- 460
- 00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:37,360
- Ashraf Marwan supplied the Israelis with
- the Egyptian preparations for the war,
- 461
- 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,800
- but not complete,
- 462
- 00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:45,040
- but the Israelis were very
- happy with what he gave them.
- 463
- 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,040
- So, he was accepted.
- The information we got
- 464
- 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:52,200
- comes along once
- in a hundred years.
- 465
- 00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:59,040
- And they call him the...
- "the agent of the century."
- 466
- 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,880
- All under instructions
- from Sadat.
- 467
- 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,919
- There's this
- double agent theory
- 468
- 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:14,280
- and I would like your opinion.
- 469
- 00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:16,480
- No other country in the world
- 470
- 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:20,720
- would allow this kind of material to
- fall into the hands of their enemies.
- 471
- 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:21,920
- He's a traitor.
- 472
- 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,920
- He's just a simple traitor.
- 473
- 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,120
- That's it.
- 474
- 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:29,440
- How did the
- information Marwan gave you
- 475
- 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:30,720
- influence your thinking?
- 476
- 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:36,520
- Marwan, he reported one of the
- conditions for going to war...
- 477
- 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,000
- was long-range bombers.
- 478
- 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,320
- And the Russians,
- they hesitated to provide
- 479
- 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,160
- the Egyptians deep
- bombing capabilities.
- 480
- 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,720
- So, the Israeli evaluators
- of the intelligence
- 481
- 00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,880
- were in the notion that
- they are not going to fight us.
- 482
- 00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:02,360
- The underlying message
- of all the information
- 483
- 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:08,480
- given by Marwan
- was that Egypt will not attack
- 484
- 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,800
- before she got certain weapons.
- 485
- 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:18,440
- But what the Israelis
- didn't know...
- 486
- 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:24,200
- was that Sadat decided
- to go to war against them...
- 487
- 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,680
- even without the weapons.
- 488
- 00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,639
- What Sadat needed
- was to surprise the Israelis,
- 489
- 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,120
- to catch them unprepared.
- 490
- 00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:41,720
- The key issue was how
- to surprise the Israelis.
- 491
- 00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,600
- And Egypt felt the right time
- 492
- 00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,720
- is to attack them on Yom Kippur,
- 493
- 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,640
- which is a holy day in Israel,
- 494
- 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,399
- when the Israelis
- don't listen to the radio,
- 495
- 00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,000
- television is off.
- 496
- 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,800
- They are just insulated in the
- synagogues and in the houses.
- 497
- 00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:15,120
- On the 6th of October, 1973,
- 498
- 00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:21,880
- the Egyptian units on the ground
- were told, "Now!"
- 499
- 00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,079
- 100,000
- Egyptian troops
- 500
- 00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,320
- start crossing the Suez Canal.
- 501
- 00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:34,600
- Shoot!
- 502
- 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:40,160
- Igniting their spirit
- and mind and a will to win.
- 503
- 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:44,560
- On the other side,
- 504
- 00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,800
- there are only 452 Israeli
- soldiers.
- 505
- 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:05,640
- The Israelis are caught
- unprepared, off-balanced.
- 506
- 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,440
- It did succeed in
- crushing the myth
- 507
- 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,400
- of Israel's invincibility,
- and the first Israeli surrenders
- 508
- 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,160
- were moments of rare triumph
- for the Egyptian commanders.
- 509
- 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,840
- The Egyptian surprise
- was very successful.
- 510
- 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:27,120
- Just like that...
- 511
- 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,840
- The synagogue was full of people
- all around here.
- 512
- 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:54,960
- We started seeing
- traffic on the streets.
- 513
- 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:56,800
- The army came.
- 514
- 00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:01,440
- People were simply taken
- onto the army vehicles.
- 515
- 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,520
- I can tell you, it was all chaos.
- 516
- 00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,000
- I was mobilized, recruited...
- 517
- 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,240
- then I headed to Sinai.
- 518
- 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,600
- We believed that the
- Israeli army is invincible
- 519
- 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,399
- and the Arabs are inferior,
- 520
- 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,080
- and that it would be
- a stroll in the park,
- 521
- 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,600
- but we realized that,
- actually, it's not a joke.
- 522
- 00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:59,840
- We were bombarded from the air,
- 523
- 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,520
- we were bombarded from the land.
- 524
- 00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,560
- We fought almost face-to-face
- with Egyptian soldiers.
- 525
- 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:18,120
- They were good fighters.
- 526
- 00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:24,440
- I saw people dying around me.
- I was frightened all the time.
- 527
- 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,000
- You think that this is the end.
- 528
- 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,680
- They took
- five kilometers of Sinai,
- 529
- 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:43,120
- and they dug in,
- 530
- 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,040
- and they rebuffed everything.
- 531
- 00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,960
- And actually,
- our defense minister, Dayan,
- 532
- 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,520
- came out on television
- and talked to the nation,
- 533
- 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:09,120
- and explained to us that
- the situation is bad indeed.
- 534
- 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:11,680
- The war is difficult.
- 535
- 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:17,560
- Very harsh collisions,
- on the ground and in the sky.
- 536
- 00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,240
- He looked down and said...
- 537
- 00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,560
- And we
- are fighting for our lives.
- 538
- 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:30,840
- Us, fighting for our life?
- We were the heroes in 1967.
- 539
- 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,559
- What happened now?
- 540
- 00:44:32,560 --> 00:44:37,200
- So, him on television
- was a difficult moment in Israel.
- 541
- 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,080
- When the war was over...
- 542
- 00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,680
- ...the Egyptian people
- were extremely happy.
- 543
- 00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:01,240
- Can I tell you something
- which not many people know?
- 544
- 00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,720
- During the 1973 war days,
- 545
- 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,000
- the rate of crime
- dwindled to zero.
- 546
- 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:10,960
- There was no crime.
- 547
- 00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:15,400
- No of fence at all, everyone...
- united with everyone.
- 548
- 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:17,320
- The one goal they had was
- 549
- 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,720
- to regain their sense of pride
- and dignity.
- 550
- 00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:31,800
- Ashraf Marwan...
- 551
- 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:38,160
- ...he enabled Egypt to gain
- the surprise advantage.
- 552
- 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:46,919
- The Egyptians are adamant
- they got the jump on you in '73,
- 553
- 00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,239
- because Ashraf Marwan misled you.
- 554
- 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:53,320
- But it's just the opposite, he
- didn't... they didn't surprise us.
- 555
- 00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,880
- They gave us an early alert.
- 556
- 00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:09,800
- Before the war...
- Ashraf Marwan,
- 557
- 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:14,600
- he asked for a meeting,
- 558
- 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,920
- gave the code word: "chemicals."
- 559
- 00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,120
- And he told him,
- "Tomorrow, I'll be in London.
- 560
- 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:25,480
- I want Zvika Zamir,
- 561
- 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,680
- the director of the
- Mossad, to come."
- 562
- 00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:33,759
- The meeting took place at about
- 563
- 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:36,000
- ten o'clock p.m.
- 564
- 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,520
- Zvika sat scribbling the essence
- of the story.
- 565
- 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,160
- Ashraf Marwan, he said,
- 566
- 00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:55,680
- "Tomorrow the war
- would be at sunset."
- 567
- 00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,440
- Zvika,
- 568
- 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:02,560
- he sent the early warning
- to his personal assistant.
- 569
- 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,600
- It was disseminated to the...
- 570
- 00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,200
- ...director of
- Military Intelligence.
- 571
- 00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:12,680
- We could
- prepare ourselves...
- 572
- 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:15,240
- for the attack.
- 573
- 00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,560
- Ashraf, he gave the plan!
- 574
- 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:26,320
- Wait a second...
- 575
- 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:32,560
- Ashraf said the war would start at sunset,
- and yet the surprise attack was at two...
- 576
- 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:34,000
- Wasn't that misleading?
- 577
- 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,160
- I'll answer it!
- 578
- 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,920
- See, I saw the full report.
- 579
- 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:45,520
- The Syrians,
- 580
- 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:49,720
- they wanted the attack to be
- in the morning.
- 581
- 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:55,280
- On October the 2nd,
- the Egyptian minister of war
- 582
- 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:56,960
- reached a compromise.
- 583
- 00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:58,320
- "Okay...
- 584
- 00:47:58,480 --> 00:47:59,920
- not sunset,
- 585
- 00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:04,960
- ten minutes to two
- o'clock, afternoon."
- 586
- 00:48:06,160 --> 00:48:10,640
- Marwan,
- he didn't know about the change.
- 587
- 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:14,680
- Because he was not in Egypt.
- He went on a mission.
- 588
- 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:21,999
- There are those
- who say that Marwan did not know
- 589
- 00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:25,440
- that war starts
- four hours earlier.
- 590
- 00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:29,640
- I don't buy it, I think
- that he was just too close...
- 591
- 00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,000
- ...to the leadership not
- to know such facts.
- 592
- 00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:40,680
- The fact that he said that
- it will start at sunset
- 593
- 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:46,680
- was the climax of him misleading
- the Mossad and Israel.
- 594
- 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,679
- But Mossad agents have
- a very clear motivation
- 595
- 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,600
- to tell the world
- that he was genuine.
- 596
- 00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:00,880
- So, I was convinced Ashraf
- Marwan misled the Israelis.
- 597
- 00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:04,480
- Now I wanted to write
- a book about him...
- 598
- 00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:10,119
- but without the confirmation
- I couldn't just blame someone
- 599
- 00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,880
- of being a spy or a double agent.
- 600
- 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,160
- And they wanted to
- hear it from Ashraf.
- 601
- 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:20,360
- I wanted to hear
- the story from him.
- 602
- 00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,080
- So, I published A
- History of Israel.
- 603
- 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:32,320
- I wanted to tease Ashraf
- out so I wrote in the book,
- 604
- 00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,200
- without mentioning his name,
- that he was
- 605
- 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,800
- a close family member
- of President Nasser
- 606
- 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:45,520
- and that the Israelis used to
- refer to him as "the Son-in-Law."
- 607
- 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:50,280
- By the way, the Israelis never
- called him "the Son-in-Law,"
- 608
- 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:55,880
- this was my invention in
- order for him to react.
- 609
- 00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:02,240
- I sent him the book with a
- dedication to Ashraf Marwan,
- 610
- 00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,320
- a hero of Egypt,
- 611
- 00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:08,840
- but no response.
- 612
- 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,720
- This is, by the way, Tommy,
- a very boring book...
- 613
- 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,280
- except for this story.
- 614
- 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:17,800
- Yeah.
- 615
- 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:19,960
- Then, a breakthrough.
- 616
- 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:27,040
- An Egyptian journalist contacted
- Ashraf Marwan asking him,
- 617
- 00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:31,040
- "Are you the person at the heart
- of Bregman's story?"
- 618
- 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:33,760
- To which he responded,
- 619
- 00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,640
- "Bregman's book is
- a stupid detective story."
- 620
- 00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:41,280
- In a...
- 621
- 00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:46,880
- childish sort of
- way, I was upset.
- 622
- 00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:52,520
- So, when another Egyptian
- journalist contacted me...
- 623
- 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,600
- I confirmed, Ashraf Marwan,
- he was the Son-in-Law.
- 624
- 00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:03,280
- A perfect spy,
- an Egyptian national hero...
- 625
- 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:07,600
- for misleading Israel,
- and they should name
- 626
- 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,160
- a street after him in Cairo.
- 627
- 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:19,120
- I was obsessed with it.
- 628
- 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,720
- And if you have
- something so important...
- 629
- 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,000
- ...and you don't
- tell your wife...
- 630
- 00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:35,399
- ...I'm sure it does have an
- impact on the relationship.
- 631
- 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:36,480
- ...two, one!
- 632
- 00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:45,720
- A few weeks later I picked up
- a copy of El a Ram il a Rabi.
- 633
- 00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,360
- Oh, that's the interview.
- 634
- 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,240
- "A perfect spy and
- a national hero...
- 635
- 00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:54,680
- Ashraf Marwan"
- 636
- 00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,880
- And it caused a huge
- stir in the Middle East.
- 637
- 00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,760
- "The agent is exposed."
- 638
- 00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:09,440
- I saw my picture in the
- book and my heart sank.
- 639
- 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:11,440
- It was quite shocking for me.
- 640
- 00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:17,079
- I wondered what would be
- the reaction of Marwan,
- 641
- 00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:18,720
- of the Egyptians, of the Mossad.
- 642
- 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:20,880
- It was very worrying.
- 643
- 00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:37,280
- The next day, I'm in the garden.
- 644
- 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,040
- Through the window,
- I can see my wife banging.
- 645
- 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:45,520
- "You have a telephone call..."
- 646
- 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,200
- I pick up the phone,
- 647
- 00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:51,320
- and someone says, "How are you?"
- 648
- 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:54,200
- It's an Arabic accent.
- 649
- 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:56,440
- "And who are you?" I ask.
- 650
- 00:52:57,120 --> 00:53:01,080
- "I am the person
- you've written about."
- 651
- 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:06,120
- I'm taken aback.
- 652
- 00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:11,760
- He says, "We should meet up."
- 653
- 00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:38,039
- I was about to meet up with
- one of the greatest spies
- 654
- 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:39,600
- in modern history.
- 655
- 00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:42,920
- Quite a dangerous exercise.
- 656
- 00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,400
- So, I was concerned.
- 657
- 00:53:48,400 --> 00:53:54,080
- I took some precautions, I left
- a message to my wife saying,
- 658
- 00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,280
- "I am meeting Ashraf Marwan."
- 659
- 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,360
- And I walked
- to the Intercontinental Hotel,
- 660
- 00:54:05,360 --> 00:54:07,320
- looking back from time-to-time.
- 661
- 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,080
- He was already there.
- 662
- 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,319
- I've never seen him before,
- and I was quite surprised
- 663
- 00:54:23,320 --> 00:54:25,040
- to see how tall he was,
- 664
- 00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:29,640
- well-dressed with a scarf,
- 665
- 00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:34,040
- a red scarf, pacing up and down.
- 666
- 00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:37,880
- And although we never met before,
- 667
- 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,280
- we immediately
- recognized each other.
- 668
- 00:54:41,600 --> 00:54:43,480
- "How are you?" I ask.
- 669
- 00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:47,560
- "I'm ill," he says.
- "I just had a few operations."
- 670
- 00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,000
- We ordered coffees,
- 671
- 00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:54,440
- and when the coffee
- did not come to our table,
- 672
- 00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:58,760
- he got up and went
- and fetched it for us,
- 673
- 00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:00,280
- which was a big mistake.
- 674
- 00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,439
- He could have put
- something inside,
- 675
- 00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,440
- this was my only
- mistake in the meeting.
- 676
- 00:55:05,480 --> 00:55:10,200
- I said to him I had one big
- question I wanted to ask him.
- 677
- 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:17,640
- Why did you say sunset when
- the war started at 2:00 p.m.?
- 678
- 00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:23,440
- He smiled and said, "What
- are a few hours between us?"
- 679
- 00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:26,240
- Bingo!
- 680
- 00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:31,720
- This was a real admission
- that he was misleading Israel.
- 681
- 00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:37,800
- But then he added that he is
- concerned about his safety...
- 682
- 00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:43,040
- ...and it was left at that.
- 683
- 00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,720
- It was amazing,
- and I was very happy to be alive.
- 684
- 00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:02,080
- General Eli Zeira was correct,
- 685
- 00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:06,320
- the mysterious spy who worked
- for Israel was a double agent.
- 686
- 00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:08,319
- This is bullshit!
- 687
- 00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:09,919
- Well, he's wrong!
- Tell me what you really...
- 688
- 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,240
- Tell me what you really think!
- 689
- 00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,120
- I think Ronnie is wrong.
- 690
- 00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:19,000
- What Eli Zeira was doing
- was spreading fake news
- 691
- 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,679
- four decades before
- Trump came to power,
- 692
- 00:56:21,680 --> 00:56:23,200
- and invented that term.
- 693
- 00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:31,439
- This was the day
- when Israel mourned her dead,
- 694
- 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:35,120
- the latest casualty
- FIGURES: 1,854 killed.
- 695
- 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,800
- The impact of the surprise
- was, for me,
- 696
- 00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:44,200
- a thing that haunts
- me to this day.
- 697
- 00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:47,160
- Certainly, I have anger.
- 698
- 00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,239
- If we have someone like Marwan,
- 699
- 00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:56,040
- who told us and warned us
- a day before to prepare the army,
- 700
- 00:56:56,680 --> 00:57:00,320
- our intelligence
- really fucked up.
- 701
- 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,920
- Of course, I'm angry.
- Very much so.
- 702
- 00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:35,240
- After the war,
- 703
- 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,240
- there was an inquiry committee
- 704
- 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:42,200
- for the failure
- of the military intelligence.
- 705
- 00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,040
- It was the responsibility
- 706
- 00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:59,320
- of the head of
- the Military Intelligence,
- 707
- 00:58:00,320 --> 00:58:04,200
- General Zeira, to give the alert,
- and he did not.
- 708
- 00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,640
- Eli Zeira, when he was asked,
- 709
- 00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,599
- "Why you didn't do anything
- 710
- 00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:14,520
- with such tremendous
- early warning?"
- 711
- 00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:20,239
- he say, "I didn't want to bother
- the chief of staff, he was busy."
- 712
- 00:58:20,240 --> 00:58:21,240
- Really?
- 713
- 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:26,120
- Because Eli Zeira,
- he thought they would attack us
- 714
- 00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:30,480
- only if they have enough air
- cover provided by the Russians,
- 715
- 00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:34,759
- and the air cover is not yet
- ready.
- 716
- 00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:38,360
- Eli Zeira didn't believe
- Ashraf Marwan's warnings.
- 717
- 00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:55,320
- The inquiry committee,
- 718
- 00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,600
- they concluded Eli Zeira...
- 719
- 00:59:00,440 --> 00:59:05,200
- ...bore the main responsibility
- for the failure in the war.
- 720
- 00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:10,200
- Eli Zeira was ousted
- from active service.
- 721
- 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:18,800
- And he left the country. He
- went with his family to the US.
- 722
- 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:25,240
- About 13 years after the war,
- Eli published his book.
- 723
- 00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:30,160
- He came to the
- conclusion that Marwan
- 724
- 00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:36,880
- was a double agent and his real employers
- were the Egyptians and not the Israelis.
- 725
- 00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:38,720
- Eli Zeira,
- 726
- 00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,960
- he want to find a scapegoat.
- 727
- 00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:48,680
- All the stories about
- the double agent,
- 728
- 00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,120
- it stems from Eli Zeira.
- 729
- 00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:55,200
- He want to justify himself.
- 730
- 00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,520
- I am furious about him.
- 731
- 01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,680
- What can I do?
- 732
- 01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,480
- I actually spoke to Zeira yesterday.
- Zeira said, "All that is facts."
- 733
- 01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:30,280
- So?
- 734
- 01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:33,440
- What do you want to prove?
- 735
- 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:36,480
- I'll, uh... I'll, uh...
- I'll throw it away.
- 736
- 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,880
- He said, "On October 4th, at early
- afternoon, the Soviets started..."
- 737
- 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:42,000
- Listen...
- 738
- 01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:46,400
- Can you stop here?
- I'll tell you...
- 739
- 01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:47,720
- off...
- 740
- 01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:05,199
- When Zeira wanted
- to rehabilitate himself,
- 741
- 01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:09,160
- he started talking to
- journalists, writers,
- 742
- 01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:11,200
- and he gave them some hints.
- 743
- 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:14,600
- One day he asked
- me for a meeting.
- 744
- 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:20,439
- He tried to feed me also
- with this false bullshit,
- 745
- 01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,440
- uh, of double agent.
- 746
- 01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:27,279
- I listened to him and I told him,
- "Eli, you are wrong.
- 747
- 01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,319
- You are feeding
- false information
- 748
- 01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,679
- just for your pride,
- hubris, ego, whatever,"
- 749
- 01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:36,000
- and I didn't write the story
- because I have more integrity.
- 750
- 01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:38,520
- But why kill a good
- story with the facts?
- 751
- 01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:43,240
- And Ronnie Bregman
- believed Eli Zeira...
- 752
- 01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:49,800
- published the name in El a Ran
- and spread he was a double agent.
- 753
- 01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:05,000
- About a
- month after the murder...
- 754
- 01:02:06,960 --> 01:02:09,080
- there was a major development.
- 755
- 01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,480
- There were three witnesses,
- 756
- 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:19,560
- and they were sitting in a room
- which overlooked the balcony,
- 757
- 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:22,440
- just 20 yards from his home.
- 758
- 01:02:37,120 --> 01:02:43,159
- So, I presume witness Joseph Rapasi
- would have been sitting here,
- 759
- 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,280
- because he had the direct
- view of the balcony.
- 760
- 01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:54,040
- He saw from the corner
- of his eye something fall
- 761
- 01:02:55,440 --> 01:02:58,240
- but they then rushed
- over to the window,
- 762
- 01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:02,560
- looked down and could
- see Ashraf Marwan's body.
- 763
- 01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:08,840
- And it was then that he
- saw two shadowy figures,
- 764
- 01:03:10,320 --> 01:03:13,040
- Middle Eastern appearance
- looking over the balcony.
- 765
- 01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:18,880
- I flew to Hungary and
- met Rapasi in Budapest,
- 766
- 01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,839
- and he did confirm to me
- that that was his story,
- 767
- 01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,320
- which, of course,
- deepened the mystery.
- 768
- 01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,040
- At the time,
- it was a major development,
- 769
- 01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,639
- because it looked
- as if it could be,
- 770
- 01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,759
- if they were people of
- Middle Eastern appearance,
- 771
- 01:03:34,760 --> 01:03:38,480
- maybe they could be
- Egyptian secret services,
- 772
- 01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:43,920
- and it did fuel speculation about
- who had possibly killed him.
- 773
- 01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:55,760
- After the meeting in the
- Intercontinental Hotel in London,
- 774
- 01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:01,240
- Ashraf, he would phone
- from time to time.
- 775
- 01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,600
- I think he was... lonely.
- 776
- 01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:09,399
- He could not have discussed
- it with Mona, his wife,
- 777
- 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,040
- he could not have discussed
- his spy games
- 778
- 01:04:12,240 --> 01:04:17,080
- with his kids or friends,
- so, ironically, he had me,
- 779
- 01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,160
- the person who exposed
- him in the first place.
- 780
- 01:04:24,400 --> 01:04:27,160
- Ashraf had strange habits.
- 781
- 01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,400
- He would phone me
- and keep quiet...
- 782
- 01:04:31,440 --> 01:04:35,120
- ...listening to my voice
- at the other end of the line,
- 783
- 01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:37,160
- putting down the phone,
- 784
- 01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:41,920
- ring again and start
- a conversation.
- 785
- 01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:50,200
- The more Ashraf asked personal
- questions about family and kids,
- 786
- 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:54,960
- the more concerned
- I became for him.
- 787
- 01:04:55,560 --> 01:05:00,960
- Because as long as he was
- the Son-in-Law with no face,
- 788
- 01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:05,880
- I did not care about
- him as a human being.
- 789
- 01:05:06,840 --> 01:05:09,120
- But now I had a
- relationship with him,
- 790
- 01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:13,000
- I knew about his operations,
- about the family, about the kids,
- 791
- 01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:19,320
- that I became very worried that
- something might happen to him,
- 792
- 01:05:19,720 --> 01:05:23,840
- that perhaps the Egyptians
- would not buy into my story
- 793
- 01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:26,280
- of him being their perfect spy,
- 794
- 01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:30,560
- the double agent,
- and they would try to hurt him,
- 795
- 01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:36,360
- or perhaps the Mossad
- might do a stupid thing.
- 796
- 01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:45,320
- I spent sleepless nights concerned
- about what could happen.
- 797
- 01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:51,680
- I thought that if anything happened
- to him it would be on my conscience,
- 798
- 01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:59,520
- and ironically, from trying
- to unmask this super spy,
- 799
- 01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:03,600
- I started looking for
- ways to protect him.
- 800
- 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:09,479
- Anything which was said
- about him, to report to him,
- 801
- 01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:12,240
- so he could take precautions.
- 802
- 01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:18,519
- All my work, my lectures, my writing,
- my family, all was put aside.
- 803
- 01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,480
- He became the first priority.
- 804
- 01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:26,519
- By that time, I was so worried
- 805
- 01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:32,160
- that something would happen to
- him that I would just look for
- 806
- 01:06:32,280 --> 01:06:36,640
- anything written about him, and he would get the articles
- and usually just phone back and ask a few questions,
- 807
- 01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,320
- because most of
- them were in Hebrew.
- 808
- 01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:47,360
- On one occasion something
- was published in Israel,
- 809
- 01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:52,920
- the article is about
- Ashraf Marwan shaking hands
- 810
- 01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,960
- with Egypt's President Mubarak.
- 811
- 01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,760
- And the title is,
- 812
- 01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:03,480
- "The man...
- There is Mossad's man in Cairo."
- 813
- 01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:08,159
- "And why did Mubarak
- hug the person
- 814
- 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:13,000
- who is regarded as
- the best Mossad agent in Egypt?"
- 815
- 01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,600
- I thought the Egyptians
- might want to have revenge.
- 816
- 01:07:18,640 --> 01:07:21,960
- I sent it to Ashraf,
- and when he got it,
- 817
- 01:07:22,080 --> 01:07:24,920
- he phoned me from a taxi...
- 818
- 01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:31,040
- and he just shouted
- and actually cried.
- 819
- 01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,160
- “Why are they doing it to me?
- 820
- 01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:37,959
- They, the Mossad,
- is trying to drive a wedge
- 821
- 01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:42,639
- between me and Mubarak,
- and this is their revenge
- 822
- 01:07:42,640 --> 01:07:44,840
- for me misleading them.â€
- 823
- 01:07:45,800 --> 01:07:51,040
- He was so upset
- that even I became very upset.
- 824
- 01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,799
- Do you think he was upset
- because Israel's story was a lie?
- 825
- 01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:57,080
- Yes. And then he said,
- 826
- 01:07:57,280 --> 01:07:59,360
- "There was no one spy,
- 827
- 01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:04,319
- we were a group of 40
- people whose task it was
- 828
- 01:08:04,320 --> 01:08:07,399
- to feed the Israelis."
- 829
- 01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:11,760
- "There was no single double
- agent. There was Egypt."
- 830
- 01:08:24,760 --> 01:08:28,200
- He told me about the medals
- he received from Sadat.
- 831
- 01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:42,640
- Wow. It was huge.
- I couldn't believe it.
- 832
- 01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:49,999
- But he was scared.
- 833
- 01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:54,559
- He told me he feared for his
- life, and I just realized
- 834
- 01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:59,200
- what a stupid thing it was
- to unmask a living spy.
- 835
- 01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:03,119
- But Ronnie, you told
- me that the higher value
- 836
- 01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:06,479
- of unmasking Marwan was about
- staying true to history,
- 837
- 01:09:06,480 --> 01:09:09,480
- and having an accurate
- record of what happened.
- 838
- 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,560
- The truth of the
- matter... when I unmasked Marwan,
- 839
- 01:09:16,440 --> 01:09:18,120
- I couldn't care
- less about history,
- 840
- 01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:23,280
- I just cared about
- a huge scoop that I had.
- 841
- 01:09:28,400 --> 01:09:33,000
- He wanted, as he put
- it, the story to die.
- 842
- 01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:42,920
- Let's open up another chapter
- of this conversation
- 843
- 01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:44,840
- that will be published.
- 844
- 01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:48,120
- Ashraf Marwan,
- Dr Ashraf Marwan...
- 845
- 01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:50,840
- You think he's a double agent.
- Yes.
- 846
- 01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:54,000
- But everyone who checked up on the
- issue says there is no chance in hell!
- 847
- 01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,880
- They say he was not a double
- agent, he was our agent.
- 848
- 01:09:57,200 --> 01:10:01,240
- Zeira published a new
- version of his book,
- 849
- 01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:04,999
- and to promote the book,
- he went to a television studio
- 850
- 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:06,200
- and he said...
- 851
- 01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:09,840
- Regarding Marwan,
- he gave us excellent information,
- 852
- 01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:15,280
- right up until the time of war,
- then he fucked us over.
- 853
- 01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:23,280
- An interview with Commander Eli Zeira here
- on this show about the Yom Kippur War
- 854
- 01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:26,519
- made an earthquake
- in the intelligence community.
- 855
- 01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:29,640
- Head of the Mossad, Zvi Zamir,
- answers back.
- 856
- 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,280
- Zamir called him a liar.
- "You lie."
- 857
- 01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:36,760
- He, Eli Zeira,
- is censoring information!
- 858
- 01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:39,759
- He releases information
- that reflects,
- 859
- 01:10:39,760 --> 01:10:42,040
- you know what,
- his sick state of mind!
- 860
- 01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:48,119
- So, Zeira
- took him to court for libel,
- 861
- 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:52,880
- so Zamir countered by taking
- Zeira to court for libel.
- 862
- 01:10:54,920 --> 01:10:57,040
- So, there were two libel cases.
- 863
- 01:10:57,440 --> 01:11:00,760
- The Mossad realized that
- it's getting out of hand.
- 864
- 01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:05,080
- These two elderly gentlemen
- which were compared
- 865
- 01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:06,919
- to those who are
- sitting on the balcony
- 866
- 01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:11,839
- in the market shops, quarreling
- and spilling secrets...
- 867
- 01:11:11,840 --> 01:11:15,280
- So, the Mossad said,
- "Let's go to arbitration."
- 868
- 01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:24,719
- I was invited to the
- arbitration by General Eli Zeira,
- 869
- 01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,640
- who paid for my flight
- ticket, by the way.
- 870
- 01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:32,280
- Zeira wanted me to tell the judge
- that he was not my source,
- 871
- 01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:34,560
- which was correct.
- 872
- 01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:40,479
- But the judge asked me about
- Zeira's book, to which I said,
- 873
- 01:11:40,480 --> 01:11:42,840
- "Yes,
- it was an important source."
- 874
- 01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:49,279
- The lawyer of the head of
- the Mossad took out this book
- 875
- 01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:50,880
- and waved it in the air.
- 876
- 01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:55,880
- I understood that was
- a big mistake to admit...
- 877
- 01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:00,519
- that the book was my source,
- because for the judge,
- 878
- 01:12:00,520 --> 01:12:04,200
- the book and Eli Zeira
- were basically the same.
- 879
- 01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,120
- So stupid to be brought
- there all the way from London
- 880
- 01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:13,920
- to give testimony to
- protect Zeira, and, in fact,
- 881
- 01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:18,440
- I was the one who put,
- indirectly, the blame on Zeira
- 882
- 01:12:18,560 --> 01:12:23,280
- by saying that his book was one
- of my most important sources.
- 883
- 01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:25,440
- It was very
- embarrassing, in fact.
- 884
- 01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:27,520
- After all that...
- 885
- 01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:29,319
- Yeah.
- 886
- 01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:30,400
- Terrible.
- 887
- 01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:33,319
- It's amazing.
- It's not amazing, Tommy.
- 888
- 01:12:33,320 --> 01:12:34,679
- It's terrible.
- 889
- 01:12:34,680 --> 01:12:36,480
- Everyone thinks that I'm clever.
- 890
- 01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:37,920
- I was so stupid.
- 891
- 01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:42,560
- And Zeira lost.
- 892
- 01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:50,320
- And then came a big mistake.
- 893
- 01:12:51,680 --> 01:12:56,680
- The judge wrote a report
- where openly he stated
- 894
- 01:12:56,960 --> 01:13:01,440
- that Ashraf Marwan
- was a Mossad agent.
- 895
- 01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:07,960
- This is the report of the judge,
- Zeira versus Zamir.
- 896
- 01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:14,680
- Here, look, Ashraf's name
- is mentioned many times,
- 897
- 01:13:14,840 --> 01:13:15,840
- which was terrible.
- 898
- 01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:21,680
- Here they say there
- was a top agent...
- 899
- 01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:25,880
- who was handled by the Mossad.
- 900
- 01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:29,440
- "The agent, or Marwan..."
- 901
- 01:13:30,240 --> 01:13:32,040
- And they expose
- him, his name, here.
- 902
- 01:13:33,480 --> 01:13:37,400
- So, he is mentioned in
- this report so many times.
- 903
- 01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:42,759
- As long as a historian, Ahron Bregman,
- said what he said about Marwan,
- 904
- 01:13:42,760 --> 01:13:47,760
- this was bad but not
- the end of the world.
- 905
- 01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:52,440
- But the moment a judge says...
- 906
- 01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:56,520
- "the agent, Marwan,"
- 907
- 01:13:56,720 --> 01:13:57,800
- this was official.
- 908
- 01:13:57,920 --> 01:14:00,400
- When I saw it,
- the report, online,
- 909
- 01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,160
- I nearly fell off my chair.
- 910
- 01:14:04,920 --> 01:14:08,600
- His life was in real danger.
- 911
- 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:15,160
- I sent a fax message to
- Ashraf Marwan to phone me.
- 912
- 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:21,520
- I collected my son, put him
- in front of the television.
- 913
- 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:24,279
- The telephone answering
- machine was flashing.
- 914
- 01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:28,960
- Message
- received today at 1:52 p.m.
- 915
- 01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:34,680
- And I was taken aback when
- I heard Ashraf's own voice.
- 916
- 01:14:36,000 --> 01:14:36,880
- Hello, hi.
- 917
- 01:14:37,000 --> 01:14:39,200
- Hello. About your book,
- if you could call me back...
- 918
- 01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:40,880
- on my mobile. Thank you.
- 919
- 01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:45,840
- It was very unusual.
- 920
- 01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,599
- Ashraf was a real spy,
- spies don't leave messages...
- 921
- 01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,320
- ...and then a second message.
- 922
- 01:14:53,680 --> 01:14:55,640
- Please.
- Hello, can you call me?
- 923
- 01:14:55,760 --> 01:14:57,800
- It's about your book. Thank you.
- 924
- 01:14:59,720 --> 01:15:01,320
- To return the call using the...
- 925
- 01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,480
- DR. I could see that he was...
- 926
- 01:15:03,760 --> 01:15:05,720
- ...under pressure.
- 927
- 01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:09,200
- Please.
- 928
- 01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,519
- Hello, can you call me?
- It's about your book.
- 929
- 01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:12,520
- Thank you.
- 930
- 01:15:14,760 --> 01:15:16,760
- Almost one after the other.
- 931
- 01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,880
- Message
- received today at 3:11 p.m.
- 932
- 01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:23,400
- Hello,
- hi, good afternoon.
- 933
- 01:15:23,680 --> 01:15:25,519
- If you could call me,
- I'm the subject of your book.
- 934
- 01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:26,520
- Thank you.
- 935
- 01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:28,640
- To listen to the message again...
- 936
- 01:15:30,480 --> 01:15:33,160
- I've known him for five years.
- 937
- 01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:37,279
- This was the first time
- that he left messages
- 938
- 01:15:37,280 --> 01:15:38,720
- on my answering machine.
- 939
- 01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:46,959
- I took out my old tape recorder
- and I, for the first time,
- 940
- 01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,600
- decided to record
- the conversation.
- 941
- 01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:56,720
- I dialed the number,
- my finger was shaking.
- 942
- 01:15:58,120 --> 01:15:59,200
- He picked up the phone.
- 943
- 01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:02,760
- Hello, my friend.
- 944
- 01:16:03,880 --> 01:16:05,839
- I'm okay, and how are you?
- 945
- 01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:07,240
- Yes, sure. Absolutely.
- 946
- 01:16:07,440 --> 01:16:09,759
- Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.
- 947
- 01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:10,760
- Bye-bye.
- 948
- 01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:13,399
- He asked me to phone him again.
- 949
- 01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:14,400
- "Put it down."
- 950
- 01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:16,320
- And two minutes later...
- 951
- 01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:18,840
- I'm talking
- to myself two minutes later...
- 952
- 01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,520
- and he is not answering,
- which was strange.
- 953
- 01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:28,519
- I was very concerned that he
- said to me, "Phone me again,"
- 954
- 01:16:28,520 --> 01:16:30,839
- and then I tried again...
- So, something
- 955
- 01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,479
- is happening in the room
- when I am talking to him.
- 956
- 01:16:33,480 --> 01:16:35,000
- You see, I am waiting for him.
- 957
- 01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:38,040
- And two minutes later...
- 958
- 01:16:39,640 --> 01:16:40,640
- Third time.
- 959
- 01:16:44,200 --> 01:16:45,960
- What's happening in the room?
- 960
- 01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:47,960
- Are you there, you know?
- 961
- 01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:50,240
- I phoned him, he said,
- "Phone me again."
- 962
- 01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:53,480
- I'm trying and trying and trying.
- 963
- 01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:58,120
- Hi, hello.
- 964
- 01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:00,600
- No, no, no. Don't worry.
- 965
- 01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:05,240
- So, um, the report of the judge
- came out...
- 966
- 01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:09,080
- and there are details there.
- This is the bottom line.
- 967
- 01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,720
- Ashraf wanted the story to die,
- 968
- 01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:20,319
- what he gets here is a
- report from me that his story
- 969
- 01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:23,040
- is very much alive,
- 970
- 01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:26,199
- and I'm sure that
- he is very stressed.
- 971
- 01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:27,679
- I am sure that he
- is very worried.
- 972
- 01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:28,880
- It's awful for him.
- 973
- 01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:31,640
- Are you in England?
- 974
- 01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,560
- Tomorrow, I will be in town.
- I will be at King's College.
- 975
- 01:17:39,960 --> 01:17:42,680
- If you want to meet, we can meet,
- but it's up to you.
- 976
- 01:17:43,640 --> 01:17:45,359
- Okay, my friend. All the best.
- 977
- 01:17:45,360 --> 01:17:46,560
- Bye-bye. Bye-bye.
- 978
- 01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:49,640
- I am shaking.
- 979
- 01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:19,360
- This is one of the rare events
- where people pay with their lives.
- 980
- 01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:21,920
- He paid with his life,
- 981
- 01:18:23,240 --> 01:18:24,560
- and he didn't deserve it.
- 982
- 01:18:43,520 --> 01:18:46,440
- After the
- death of Ashraf Marwan,
- 983
- 01:18:47,480 --> 01:18:49,160
- Ronnie was in shock.
- 984
- 01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:54,320
- I felt big pain.
- It was very painful when he died.
- 985
- 01:18:59,760 --> 01:19:04,760
- I spent hours in the mountains
- thinking about it,
- 986
- 01:19:04,880 --> 01:19:06,560
- reflecting about it.
- 987
- 01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:10,720
- His death was my
- failure to protect him.
- 988
- 01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:14,040
- This is how I looked at it.
- 989
- 01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:20,240
- I flew to
- interview Ronnie Bregman.
- 990
- 01:19:20,640 --> 01:19:24,960
- We had a very lengthy conversation,
- he said, "Maybe it's my fault."
- 991
- 01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:30,599
- Then we talked a lot in details
- with all these arguments
- 992
- 01:19:30,600 --> 01:19:32,680
- which I raised before.
- 993
- 01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:38,080
- At the end of it, Ronnie told me,
- "You know, Yossi? You are right.
- 994
- 01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,240
- I don't believe anymore
- that he was a double agent,
- 995
- 01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:42,400
- you convinced me."
- 996
- 01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:52,040
- Eli had a clique
- of journalists surrounding him.
- 997
- 01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:54,640
- And among them, one historian.
- 998
- 01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:58,279
- If you ask me,
- and I'm not just saying this,
- 999
- 01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:00,080
- these people are disgusting.
- 1000
- 01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:01,679
- Why?
- 1001
- 01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,040
- Because these people
- distort the truth.
- 1002
- 01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:17,960
- Yeah, the funeral.
- 1003
- 01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:24,320
- They asked me, "Okay,
- he got such an Egypt funeral.
- 1004
- 01:20:24,640 --> 01:20:30,120
- With all the leadership
- coming with black suits.
- 1005
- 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:37,480
- His widow stand there. All the
- high echelon passed by her,
- 1006
- 01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:40,280
- kissing her or whispering..."
- 1007
- 01:20:40,480 --> 01:20:45,240
- They asked me, "How could it
- be that this is a traitor?"
- 1008
- 01:20:46,800 --> 01:20:49,560
- I watched many mafia movies.
- 1009
- 01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:53,919
- When the mafia killed
- one of their members,
- 1010
- 01:20:53,920 --> 01:20:58,200
- all the dons are passing
- by the widow, whispering,
- 1011
- 01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:02,320
- "We will give you money,"
- "We will give you money."
- 1012
- 01:21:03,120 --> 01:21:06,080
- The funeral of Ashraf Marwan...
- 1013
- 01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:09,560
- reminds me the same.
- 1014
- 01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:11,360
- This is Westminster Coroner Court
- 1015
- 01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:25,079
- where there was a three-day
- hearing to decide a verdict
- 1016
- 01:21:25,080 --> 01:21:27,040
- on the death of Ashraf Marwan.
- 1017
- 01:21:29,720 --> 01:21:33,920
- During the inquest, it was mentioned
- he had been writing his memoirs.
- 1018
- 01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,719
- I had seen where
- the memoirs were supposed
- 1019
- 01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:41,960
- to have been stored on the shelf
- and they'd disappeared,
- 1020
- 01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:44,479
- according to the family,
- on the day that he died.
- 1021
- 01:21:44,480 --> 01:21:49,640
- Now, in those memoirs he was
- expected to discuss his role
- 1022
- 01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:51,760
- in the October War.
- 1023
- 01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:53,599
- Of course, he was going to reject
- 1024
- 01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:56,240
- the allegation that
- he was a Mossad agent,
- 1025
- 01:21:56,640 --> 01:22:00,240
- but they'd disappeared,
- according to the family.
- 1026
- 01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,159
- The Marwan
- family, through their lawyer,
- 1027
- 01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:08,640
- asked me to appear
- before the coroner.
- 1028
- 01:22:09,960 --> 01:22:14,040
- I was sitting where the coroner
- listened to the testimonies
- 1029
- 01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:16,760
- and it was quite confusing,
- 1030
- 01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:22,439
- and my mind was telling me,
- "Wow, it was a murder."
- 1031
- 01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:25,039
- And then a minute later,
- "No, it was an accident."
- 1032
- 01:22:25,040 --> 01:22:27,080
- And then, "No, it was a suicide."
- 1033
- 01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:31,200
- And to sit there with the family,
- at the back of my mind,
- 1034
- 01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:35,999
- there was the question,
- "What was my responsibility?"
- 1035
- 01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,640
- It was a very
- unpleasant experience.
- 1036
- 01:22:39,760 --> 01:22:41,920
- There was a three-day
- hearing to decide,
- 1037
- 01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:44,920
- and at the end of it,
- 1038
- 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,920
- the coroner handed down
- an open verdict on his death.
- 1039
- 01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:56,959
- Which the family were
- very pleased about,
- 1040
- 01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,560
- because it allowed the family to rule out suicide.
- I did feel for Mona, she was devastated.
- 1041
- 01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:26,760
- Madame Mona, what was the
- hardest moment in your life?
- 1042
- 01:23:26,920 --> 01:23:28,080
- Two moments...
- 1043
- 01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:32,759
- ...the death of
- my father and my mother,
- 1044
- 01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:34,400
- and the loss of Ashraf.
- 1045
- 01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:40,360
- But at the end of the day,
- as his wife, I lost him,
- 1046
- 01:23:41,120 --> 01:23:43,600
- but at the same
- time, I feel grateful
- 1047
- 01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:47,560
- that I could be with him
- for 30 years.
- 1048
- 01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:38,120
- So if he
- was in touch with Israel,
- 1049
- 01:24:38,280 --> 01:24:40,960
- then it was out of orders
- from the Egyptian side?
- 1050
- 01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:47,160
- This is
- not even to be questioned;
- 1051
- 01:24:47,320 --> 01:24:52,000
- I am not going to defend
- something that I don't need to.
- 1052
- 01:24:52,280 --> 01:24:56,239
- This is something that I
- am sure of 100 percent,
- 1053
- 01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:59,080
- not even just 100 percent...
- 1054
- 01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:07,880
- Everyone fought
- in his or her way.
- 1055
- 01:25:09,440 --> 01:25:12,160
- Ashraf Marwan in
- Egypt is regarded as a patriot
- 1056
- 01:25:12,480 --> 01:25:16,080
- who worked for Sadat to
- deceive the Israelis.
- 1057
- 01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:20,960
- Basically, by giving Egypt a
- four-hour lead in the 1973 war,
- 1058
- 01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:25,160
- but Israel regard him
- as a national hero.
- 1059
- 01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:28,240
- Double is very hard to believe.
- 1060
- 01:25:29,040 --> 01:25:31,920
- In my opinion, he was ours.
- 1061
- 01:25:32,160 --> 01:25:36,880
- The Israeli side of
- things is supported by evidence,
- 1062
- 01:25:37,080 --> 01:25:41,960
- the Egyptian side has yet
- to present its own record,
- 1063
- 01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:46,520
- and only when both of them
- are available can we decide
- 1064
- 01:25:46,640 --> 01:25:49,200
- which is the more authentic
- version of the story.
- 1065
- 01:25:50,440 --> 01:25:54,840
- The question is: Why is the
- Egyptian Intelligence Services,
- 1066
- 01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:58,319
- 50 years down the line, not
- releasing any shred of evidence
- 1067
- 01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,160
- about Ashraf Marwan?
- 1068
- 01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:04,959
- The fact that we do
- not have any evidence
- 1069
- 01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:07,400
- is really not about
- Ashraf Marwan.
- 1070
- 01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:12,880
- It is about the fact that if the
- Egyptians release any documents,
- 1071
- 01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:18,759
- it will establish a precedent that
- the public can have a say on how
- 1072
- 01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,479
- the Egyptian State
- should be transparent,
- 1073
- 01:26:21,480 --> 01:26:24,760
- that it should be accountable,
- and the Egyptian State
- 1074
- 01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:27,160
- doesn't want to establish
- this precedent at all.
- 1075
- 01:26:28,400 --> 01:26:32,760
- Even though, by not revealing
- anything about Ashraf Marwan,
- 1076
- 01:26:33,000 --> 01:26:36,479
- it can be still raising
- suspicion that, in fact,
- 1077
- 01:26:36,480 --> 01:26:39,320
- he was an Israeli spy
- rather than a double agent.
- 1078
- 01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:43,520
- The Ashraf Marwan story,
- this is not the real story.
- 1079
- 01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:47,560
- This is a side story of
- something that is much bigger.
- 1080
- 01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:52,560
- The Egyptian people,
- they want to know the truth.
- 1081
- 01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:09,280
- We have the
- full report of the meeting
- 1082
- 01:27:09,440 --> 01:27:14,120
- between Zamir and Ashraf Marwan
- just released by the Israelis.
- 1083
- 01:27:15,320 --> 01:27:18,119
- There are five pages,
- enough information
- 1084
- 01:27:18,120 --> 01:27:22,480
- for the two schools of thought
- to find enough elements
- 1085
- 01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:24,840
- to support their own theory.
- 1086
- 01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,200
- I always believed Ashraf
- was a double agent,
- 1087
- 01:27:31,680 --> 01:27:32,920
- I never doubted that.
- 1088
- 01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:37,519
- I don't understand why
- he's still sticking
- 1089
- 01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:40,799
- to this bullshit theory
- of a double agent.
- 1090
- 01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:43,039
- I can understand that
- maybe at the beginning
- 1091
- 01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:46,840
- he was under this spell and
- the impression of Eli Zeira.
- 1092
- 01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:50,799
- Fine. But then,
- after he already admitted
- 1093
- 01:27:50,800 --> 01:27:53,960
- in our conversation,
- he was almost crying.
- 1094
- 01:27:54,280 --> 01:27:56,200
- I don't know.
- It's an enigma for me.
- 1095
- 01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,239
- Yossi told me
- that he convinced you
- 1096
- 01:28:00,240 --> 01:28:02,919
- Ashraf was not a double agent.
- 1097
- 01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:05,400
- I don't think that
- this was the case.
- 1098
- 01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:09,719
- Yossi believes in what he
- believes, along with the Mossad.
- 1099
- 01:28:09,720 --> 01:28:12,720
- The truth, it's in the
- eye of the beholder.
- 1100
- 01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:16,560
- The fact
- that he is not ready to...
- 1101
- 01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,200
- face the real story and to...
- 1102
- 01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:24,680
- to have the courage and the guts
- to say, "I was mistaken,"
- 1103
- 01:28:25,000 --> 01:28:28,680
- it's his problem
- with his conscience.
- 1104
- 01:28:31,720 --> 01:28:35,920
- Unmasking the name
- of a human source,
- 1105
- 01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:38,000
- it's a sin.
- 1106
- 01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:39,880
- What would
- you say to him?
- 1107
- 01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,240
- "Go to hell, bastard!"
- 1108
- 01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:44,720
- Really. "Go to hell, bastard!"
- 1109
- 01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:46,360
- "How dare you?"
- 1110
- 01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:51,680
- Because you don't
- put in danger a human being
- 1111
- 01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,800
- because you want to be famous.
- 1112
- 01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:58,040
- When it comes
- to the story of Ashraf Marwan
- 1113
- 01:28:58,160 --> 01:29:00,480
- there is no ego in me.
- 1114
- 01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:05,640
- The Mossad, they can't give up on
- their story of Ashraf.
- 1115
- 01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:10,720
- And when I'm in bed at night,
- as you put it,
- 1116
- 01:29:11,480 --> 01:29:15,800
- I don't really think about
- whether or not he was double.
- 1117
- 01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:19,520
- I lost interest in this
- question, Tommy.
- 1118
- 01:29:19,680 --> 01:29:24,360
- It's about the pain
- which I inflicted on him
- 1119
- 01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:26,480
- in unmasking him.
- 1120
- 01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:29,960
- I just want you
- to ponder a question, though,
- 1121
- 01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:32,960
- is still believing
- that he's a double agent,
- 1122
- 01:29:33,400 --> 01:29:36,319
- is it not easier to believe that,
- 1123
- 01:29:36,320 --> 01:29:38,039
- because then everything
- you went through
- 1124
- 01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:39,920
- would at least then
- not be for nothing?
- 1125
- 01:31:08,320 --> 01:31:10,480
- What impact did
- this have on your marriage?
- 1126
- 01:31:10,960 --> 01:31:12,200
- Of course, I divorced,
- 1127
- 01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:15,640
- but it was not because of
- the Marwan story.
- 1128
- 01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:21,720
- But I think, in hindsight, it does
- have impact, because it's a secret.
- 1129
- 01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,240
- My then wife, when she
- came to know about it,
- 1130
- 01:31:26,440 --> 01:31:31,280
- she had the common sense to tell
- me that it will end in tears.
- 1131
- 01:31:32,640 --> 01:31:34,920
- But it was,
- of course... it was too late.
- 1132
- 01:31:35,560 --> 01:31:40,880
- And by that time, the train
- already left the station.
- 1133
- 01:31:42,440 --> 01:31:45,560
- Maybe your fish,
- they want to have more food.
- 1134
- 01:31:45,800 --> 01:31:46,960
- They love food.
- 1135
- 01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:51,759
- My fish, if I open this
- one, they jump.
- 1136
- 01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:52,840
- Do they?
- Yeah.
- 1137
- 01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,000
- They are guppies.
- You know, guppies like to jump.
- 1138
- 01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:01,440
- But with them they jump
- and I can save them...
- 1139
- 01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:06,040
- ...because I just bring them
- from the floor and put them back.
- 1140
- 01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:07,880
- Look. Look how many of them.
- 1141
- 01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:18,640
- This afternoon
- historic documents
- 1142
- 01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:23,359
- concluding the Treaty of Peace
- between the Arab Republic of Egypt
- 1143
- 01:32:23,360 --> 01:32:25,920
- and the State of
- Israel will be signed.
- 1144
- 01:32:28,480 --> 01:32:30,280
- It's better to have
- the three of us together.
- 1145
- 01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:31,400
- Very good.
- 1146
- 01:32:36,000 --> 01:32:37,440
- I'm so proud of both of you.
- 1147
- 01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:38,799
- God bless you both.
- 1148
- 01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:40,320
- Thank you,
- Mr. President.
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