Operation Damocles
Israel's Secret War Against Hitler's Scientists, 1951-1967
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Operation Damocles
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Narrado por:
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Ray Chase
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Roger Howard
The forgotten cloak-and-dagger history of the former Nazi scientists who were recruited by Egypt to develop long-range missiles capable of striking Israel.
From 1951 to 1967 Egypt pursued a secret program to build military rockets that could have conceivably posed a threat to neighboring Israel. Because such an ambitious project required Western expertise, the Egyptian leader President Nasser hired West German scientists, many of them veterans of the Nazi rocket program at Peenemünde and elsewhere. These covert plans soon came to the attention of Israel’s legendary secret service, Mossad, and caused deep alarm in Tel Aviv. Would Israel fall under the shadow of long-range missiles held by a ruler who was sworn to destroy the Jewish state? Could the missiles be fitted with warheads filled with radiological, chemical, or even nuclear materials? Israel responded by using threats, intimidation, and brutal assassination squads to deter the German scientists from working on Nasser’s behalf. Exactly half a century later, this book tells the gripping story of the mysterious arms dealers, Mossad assassins, scientific genii, and leading figures who all played their part in Operation Damocles.
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Journalist Roger Howard put together this account of the fascinating true story of Operation Damocles, Israel’s clandestine efforts to end Egypt’s missile program. Through arms dealers Gamel Abdel Nasser, Egypt hired West German scientists to develop its long-range missiles program in the late '50s, early '60s. Israel’s secret service, the Mossad, took out a policy of intimidation and assassination attempts against the scientists with former Nazi ties that cost Israel face but in all likelihood ended the program. Ray Chase, in a biting baritone, gives a hard-hitting performance of this material that tells a shocking and intriguing piece of historical espionage.
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