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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty six, Mordecai Venunu, an Israeli nuclear technician,

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Speaker 1: made two key mistakes. The first is that he flew

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Speaker 1: to London and began sharing secrets about Israel's nuclear weapons

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Speaker 1: program with reporters. The second is that he went on

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Speaker 1: a date. Here's Venunu describing what happened in his own

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Speaker 1: words to sixty minutes Australia.

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Speaker 2: I bought a cigarette that I saw an American woman

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Speaker 2: standing there buying as a cigarette. I look at her,

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Speaker 2: she look at me.

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Speaker 1: He approached her to start a conversation, and because he

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Speaker 1: thought this was his idea, he suspected nothing. She was

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Speaker 1: dragging you into her trap.

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Speaker 2: No, I was already in her trap.

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Speaker 1: After a few dates, she convinced Venunu to join her

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Speaker 1: for a weekend in Italy. Despite being a whistleblower who

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Speaker 1: was wanted for treason by the Israeli government. Venunu flew

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Speaker 1: to Rome with her.

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Speaker 2: When I entered the house, the door opened and immediately

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Speaker 2: jump on me. Two people and another woman come and

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Speaker 2: injected me, and then I lost my conscience.

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Speaker 1: The new new spent the next eighteen years in an

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Speaker 1: Israeli prison. The woman who seduced and entrapped him. Was

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Speaker 1: engaged in one of those sinister and secretive aspects of

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Speaker 1: intelligence work, sex bionage.

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Speaker 3: What is sex spondage? Actually, these sex becomes like a

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Speaker 3: drug and your target becomes like drug addicted, so he

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Speaker 3: physically cannot be with someone else.

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Speaker 1: I'm Niel Strauss and join me on March twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: when we begin a dangerous game with a deadly seducer

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