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 INTERVIEWEESMeir 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 JOURNALSDaily Express, London
Daily Mail, London
Daily Telegraph, London
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
Jerusalem Post
Sunday Times, London
ORGANIZATIONSPalmach 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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