Gideon's Spies

They invited me to their homes; I met their families and came to know something of their private lives; it was a reminder that spies do not live in one dimension. I still remember completing a long interview with a former katsa who provided an account of how he had killed. Suddenly he looked around at the comfortable living room with its views of a biblical landscape and sighed deeply and said, “This world is not this world.”

The words have stayed with me. I think that what he meant was that, compared to his former work, beneath ordinary rhythms and appearances of life, a darkness and menace had never left him. I found that with several of the others with whom I spoke.

It was a sobering reminder that the world of intelligence is, as Saint Paul glimpsed heaven, all too often indeed “seen through a glass, darkly.”

PRIMARY INTERVIEWEES

Meir Amit

Haim Cohen

Nadia Cohen

Yaakov Cohen

William Casey

William Colby

Rafael Eitan

Zvi Spielmann

Isser Harel

Emery Kabongo

Edward Kimbel

David Kimche

Otto Kormek

Henry McConnachie

Ariel Merari

Reuven Merhav

Danny Nagier

Yoel Ben Porat

Uri Saguy

Simon Wiesenthal

NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS

Daily Express, London

Daily Mail, London

Daily Telegraph, London

New York Times

Los Angeles Times

Jerusalem Post

Sunday Times, London

ORGANIZATIONS

Palmach Archive, Israel

Public Record Office, London

National Archive, Washington

The New York Public Library

The Press Association Library, London

The Library, Trinity College, Dublin

The Secret Archives, Vatican City State

The Archive, Glilot, Israel

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