An Israeli nuclear technician flees the country to share military secrets. He meets a beautiful woman, goes on a date to Rome, and wakes up in an Israeli prison. Enter the world of Sexpionage in this teaser for the latest podcast from the team behind To Live & Die in LA, named by The Associated Press as the best podcast of the year.
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Episode Transcript
In nineteen eighty six, Mordecai Venunu, an Israeli nuclear technician,
made two key mistakes. The first is that he flew
to London and began sharing secrets about Israel's nuclear weapons
program with reporters. The second is that he went on
a date. Here's Venunu describing what happened in his own
(00:24):
words to sixty minutes Australia.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I bought a cigarette that I saw an American woman
standing there buying as a cigarette. I look at her,
she look at me.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
He approached her to start a conversation, and because he
thought this was his idea, he suspected nothing. She was
dragging you into her trap.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
No, I was already in her trap.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
After a few dates, she convinced Venunu to join her
for a weekend in Italy. Despite being a whistleblower who
was wanted for treason by the Israeli government. Venunu flew
to Rome with her.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
When I entered the house, the door opened and immediately
jump on me. Two people and another woman come and
injected me, and then I lost my conscience.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
The new new spent the next eighteen years in an
Israeli prison. The woman who seduced and entrapped him. Was
engaged in one of those sinister and secretive aspects of
intelligence work, sex bionage.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
What is sex spondage? Actually, these sex becomes like a
drug and your target becomes like drug addicted, so he
physically cannot be with someone else.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I'm Niel Strauss and join me on March twenty sixth
when we begin a dangerous game with a deadly seducer
from Tenderfoot TV. Don't miss to Die For. Listen for
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