Ex-Mossad Agent Cashes in on Career by Setting Up Speaking, Consulting Firm
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The company, set up earlier this year, has reportedly already amassed hundreds of speakers and a large number of major corporate and institutional clients, ranging from Israeli and US universities and museums to Lockheed Martin and the ‘Friends of the IDF’ non-profit organisation.
Avner Avraham, a former Mossad agent who spent 28 years working for the Israeli intelligence agency, has set up a new speaking and consulting firm specialising in espionage, security and undercover intelligence operations.
The company, established four months ago, is called Spy Legends, and has already accumulated a range of experts for speaking gigs, including historians, activists, artists, as well as some high-ranking retired intelligence officials, such as former heads of Shin Bet, Mossad and the I
By SHIRA RUBIN | The Washington Post | Published: December 19, 2020 TEL AVIV (Tribune News Service) After decades in the shadows, Israel s foreign intelligence agency, the Mossad, has been getting a lot of airtime, both on the news and in popular TV thrillers. In real life, details of operations attributed to Israel are in the open like never before, including the theft two years ago of a trove of nuclear secrets from inside Iran, last summer s drive-by killing of al-Qaida s No. 2 in Tehran and the assassination last month of Iran s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. And on television, streaming hits like Apple TV Plus s Tehran, Netflix s The Spy and Hulu s False Flag have starred the Mossad as a cold, ruthless and efficient machine.
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Israeli spy dramas fuel interest in joining secretive Mossad agency
Former Mossad agents say allure of exciting lifestyle as depicted in Tehran is encouraging more Israelis to sign up
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Screenshot of Apple TV s Tehran, which in some ways mirrors real-life events in the Middle East
Credit: Apple TV
It is often considered the most secretive and ruthless of all spy networks, emerging briefly from the shadows to confront Israel s enemies before vanishing once more.
But a wave of nail-biting spy thrillers on streaming websites, as well as last month’s high profile assassination of an Iranian scientist, have placed Mossad firmly in the public eye.
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