Meir Dagan, Mossad, and the Art of Intelligence | Samuel M. Katz

Podcast: Secrets and Spies Podcast: Espionage | Global Issues | Current Affairs · Secrets & Spies

Opublikowano: 2026-08-08

Samuel M. Katz is a New York Times bestselling author and one of the foremost chroniclers of Middle Eastern conflict, special operations, and intelligence. His latest book, The Architect of Espionage, is the biography of Meir Dagan — the Holocaust survivor turned soldier turned spymaster who reshaped Mossad from a cautious intelligence collector into a direct-action force of global reach. Chris speaks with Katz about the experiences that forged Dagan: rejection from Israel's elite commando ranks, the undercover war he built in Gaza under Ariel Sharon, and the Lebanon fighting that made him a man of war who hated war. Th...