Episode 579
"Israeli Military Intelligence" – with IDF Brig. General (Res.) Yossi Kuperwasser
March 21, 20231h 5m
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Show Notes
Summary
Yossi Kuperwasser (Twitter; Website) joins Andrew (Twitter; LinkedIn) to discuss the Israeli intelligence community. Yossi is the former head of the Research Division of IDF Military Intelligence.
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What You’ll Learn
Intelligence
- The layout of Israeli intelligence
- The First and Second Intifadas
- Israel’s complicated position in the Middle East
- Relationship between Israeli and American ICs
Reflections
- Intelligence as a learning process
- The importance and difficulty of trust
And much, much more …
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Quote of the Week
“That's the problem of intelligence - It's an ongoing learning process. And if you don't learn all the time to enable you to adjust to the developing situation, you are going to fail.” – Yossi Kuperwasser.
Resources
*SpyCasts*
- The Counterterrorism and Counter WMD Strategist with Dexter Ingram (2022)
- Son of Hamas, Spy for Israel with Mosab Hassan Yousef and Gonen Ben Yitzhak (2010)
- Israeli Intelligence and the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case with Ron Olive (2007)
*Beginner Resources*
- History of Israel, Encyclopedia Britannica [encyclopedia entry]
- What you need to know about the 1987 Intifada, PBS (2019) [article]
- The Oslo Accords, 25 Years Later, Washington Post (2018) [video]
- 1967 War: Six Days that Changed the Middle East, J. Bowen, BBC (2017) [article]
- The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Brief, Simple History, Vox (2016) [video]
*Wildcard Resource(s)*
- The Little Drummer Girl – A fictional novel about a double agent working for the Israelis, written by famed spy author John le Carré in 1983.