But the contents of the safes tell a different story, a completely different and undeniable account: for years, Iran has been engaged in a covert nuclear project aimed at producing five nuclear bombs, with a yield of 10 kilotons each. The bottom line is clear: it was a mega-scam, a state-level deception, in which senior Iranian officials and hundreds of others have taken part for years.įor two decades, Iran denied having a military nuclear program. The Iranians documented everything: the equipment, the construction of secret plants and sites, the experiments, detailed presentations on the project's progress, goals and stages, and even themselves, during nuclear experiments. A Mossad case officer told me he would have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for one CD like this.
The written material comprises of 114 folders, containing more than 55,000 pages, of which 8,500 were handwritten documents, many of them authored by senior government officials, and some by nuclear personnel who died in operations attributed to the Mossad.īut the biggest surprise was the massive amount of information stored in the 182 disks. It was then that it became clear how important was the decision to risk everything and take the CDs.ĬDs seized by Mossad from Iran's nuclear archive They didn't know for sure what really happened to "the filthy secrets of the Iranian regime," as dubbed by Mossad director Yossi Cohen.Ī few weeks later, when the material arrived in Israel, dozens of translators, experts and analysts-assisted by Persian speakers from Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate's (MID) Unit 8200-started digging through the piles of material. The Iranians could only guess who was behind the heist, but until Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's famous press conference on April 30, In the end, despite the unexpected piles of CDs, all of the material was extracted from Iran,Īnd no one got caught. When the break-in was discovered, about 12,000 Iranian security personnel went on the pursuit in an attempt to figure out who stole the nuclear archive from under their noses. So what the hell were they going to do now? Should they ignore the potential secrets these CDs may hold? Or take a calculated risk with a new variable that might complicate the operation? The agents received an explicit order from the command room: take everything, including the CDs.Īt one minute to five in the morning, the agents left the warehouse. But then, inside the safes' room, agents found something else, besides folders: CDs, piles of them-a massive amount of DVDs and computer discs, most of them unmarked.
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