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scape studios. Exodus.

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Part two. Passports, and

1:05

prison cells. Sudan

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nineteen seventy Mossad

1:15

Danny Lemour, has been in the country

1:17

undercover for two months. His

1:19

mission to find and rescue

1:21

Ethiopian Jews fleeing from

1:23

persecution and a bloody civil war

1:26

has so far come to nothing.

1:29

And now, for the first time since

1:31

his arrival, He's managed to connect

1:33

with headquarters

1:35

who tell Danny precisely what he

1:37

doesn't want to hear. Dad

1:40

wants to seal urgently. That

1:43

meaning my boss

1:45

wants to see me urgently, that means

1:47

I have to live. With little progress

1:49

to report, Danny knows that returning

1:52

to Israel would likely see headquarters abandon

1:55

the mission, leaving the Ethiopian

1:57

Jews to an uncertain fate.

2:00

But having found the man who sparked

2:02

Mossad search two months ago,

2:05

Faraday a Plum. Danny

2:07

can't bring himself to abandon the one

2:09

Ethiopian zoo he has found.

2:12

So Danny uses some deception.

2:15

On his own

2:16

team.

2:17

I said, look, I cannot go

2:18

now. You tell dad that

2:21

I am very busy? I cannot

2:23

leave now. I am in the middle of things that are

2:25

happening. Actually,

2:27

nothing happened. But headquarters

2:30

are adamant. You've

2:32

got no choice as the reply.

2:35

Dani knew what that meant. It

2:37

was code for a direct order

2:39

from the top. Ignoring

2:41

it would mean an automatic dishonorable

2:43

discharge.

2:45

Danny says he will come back, knowing

2:48

that he won't. After that conversation,

2:51

I told Thierry that I need to go

2:53

to Europe to discuss some

2:54

matters. And I'm I'll

2:57

be absent for a week. And what

2:59

if you don't come back? Faraday

3:01

asks. I said, oh, come

3:03

back. But if you don't

3:05

come back,

3:07

I will come back. I'll

3:10

come back. I'm not going to

3:12

abandon you. Jews

3:14

don't leave Jews. Dani

3:16

adds. All my

3:17

life, since the moment I came to Israel

3:20

as a young man, sixteen

3:22

years old, I

3:24

always felt that whatever I first

3:26

of all, I'm I'm willing to pay the price.

3:28

Reluctantly, leaves Sudan.

3:31

But not for Israel. Instead,

3:34

he stops in

3:35

Paris, offering headquarters a

3:37

compromise. On an

3:39

encrypted line, Danny speaks

3:41

to the head of the mossad himself. Yet,

3:44

Zach Hoffi. You

3:46

have no results. Huffy says.

3:49

Come back now. Give

3:52

me one more month. Dani pleads.

3:54

The line goes quite it, then

3:57

you have one week. But

4:00

Danny is not done. Can

4:02

we say two weeks? Fine.

4:06

I don't want you to stay a day longer

4:08

unless you find Jews. And

4:12

so I went back, Back in

4:14

Sudan, Danny goes to a prearranged

4:16

spot outside one of the camps

4:18

to rendezvous with

4:19

Faraday. In the distance,

4:22

Danny spots him. With

4:24

two men. And

4:25

those two guys, they looked like

4:27

whoa. They they hadn't

4:29

eaten for weeks. Really

4:32

looked bad. Upon meeting

4:34

them, Danny can hardly believe

4:36

it. There were two Jews that

4:38

he found And more than that,

4:41

they knew others in the camp. Danny

4:44

had two weeks to find Jews

4:46

or the mission was over. Now

4:48

on his first night, there

4:50

they were. The mission

4:53

was back on. Danny

4:57

and Faraday load the Jews into

4:59

their land rover defender and

5:01

under the cover of darkness to

5:03

transport them full hundred kilometers to

5:06

a hostel in Khartoum. They

5:08

tell them to stay in their room and

5:10

not make a sound. Faraday

5:12

would come and provide for them each

5:14

day. At around the

5:16

same time, back in Faraday's village

5:18

in Ethiopia, A stranger appears

5:21

that his mother's heart. Upon

5:23

greeting

5:24

her, the stranger says he has news

5:26

from Sudan. It was an Ethiopian

5:29

smuggler that spoke Arabic

5:31

perfectly. So he

5:33

could, you know, he could go anywhere.

5:35

He pulls out a photograph of Faraday,

5:38

the sun she had not heard from

5:40

in five months. Have

5:42

you seen him? She asks,

5:45

Yes. The stranger replies.

5:48

He is safe in Sudan and

5:50

in contact with Israel. Faraday's

5:54

mother learns that the smuggler has come to

5:56

bring her other sons to Sudan.

5:58

On Faraday's orders,

6:03

They thought that before we

6:05

called everyone to come, we wanted

6:07

to test to see how his younger

6:09

brothers will do it walking

6:12

this huge distance.

6:13

Immediately, Faraday's younger brothers

6:16

agreed to make the journey that

6:18

day. Disguised in

6:20

traditional Muslim clothes, the

6:22

smuggler takes the boys across the border.

6:25

Evading both rebel and government

6:27

soldiers for over a week, the

6:30

group eventually arrives in

6:32

Gudarraf. Three

6:34

days later, word gets to Faraday

6:36

in Cartume four hundred kilometers

6:39

away. That night, the

6:41

three brothers are reunited. But

6:45

for Danny, there was still a problem.

6:47

While he knew it was now possible to

6:49

get Ethiopian Jews into

6:51

Sudan.

6:52

He had no way of getting them

6:55

out. But then

6:57

This solution for this method

6:59

of evacuation as many

7:01

other things that happened in this operation

7:04

came because life is

7:06

life. Danny

7:10

often took a room at one of the only

7:12

western style hotels in Cartomb,

7:15

both to try and meet potentially useful

7:17

contacts. And also to catch

7:19

some

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respite. One day

7:21

outside the hotel, he notices

7:24

a motorbike. Now I

7:26

was always a bike man. That in

7:28

Sudan, I noticed that there were no

7:30

bikes, no bikes at

7:31

all, not big, not

7:33

small, not medium, nothing.

7:35

Danny stares endlessly at

7:37

the motorbike.

7:39

With my mouth open, probably.

7:42

And here comes the owner.

7:43

In a thick French accent, sent.

7:46

The man asks if he likes it.

7:48

I say yes. I like

7:50

it very much, and then

7:52

I throw them in friendship. How?

7:54

How did you bring

7:55

it? So he says I'm working for

7:57

the UN HCR. The

7:59

United Nations high commissioner for

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refugees.

8:03

This man, a Belgium, was

8:05

the organization's number two

8:08

in Sudan. He was in charge

8:10

of relocation of refugees.

8:12

His job was to obtain

8:14

from countries around the world

8:16

that essentially was the Europe

8:18

entry visas as many as possible.

8:21

Danny knew this was a

8:23

golden opportunity.

8:25

And slowly but surely

8:27

we became friendly. After

8:29

a few days, Danny starts to

8:31

visit the Belgian in his office. Through

8:33

his cover as an anthropologist, Danny

8:36

asked how the refugee relocation scheme

8:38

works. He even considers

8:40

telling the Belgian outright what

8:42

he was really doing in

8:44

Sudan. But then he

8:46

learns his boss was from Egypt,

8:48

a Muslim country that

8:51

Israel had an improving but

8:53

still testy relationship

8:54

with. I couldn't

8:56

know if this guy would be hostile

8:58

or friendly or so, you know, you

9:00

have to be careful. You have to

9:02

be

9:02

prudent. So Danny devises

9:05

another plan. I will learn how he

9:07

does it, and I will try to do it clandestinely.

9:09

The Belgium would contact

9:11

embassies asking how many refugees

9:13

they would take. Once

9:15

a number was agreed on, he would

9:18

provide them a list of names and

9:20

purchase airline tickets In turn,

9:23

the embassies would issue a

9:25

request for passports and exit

9:27

visas for these names. From the

9:29

Sudanese interior ministry.

9:31

The Belgian even took

9:34

Danny to the ministry itself

9:36

three times to see how the

9:38

final documents were stamped

9:40

and

9:40

collected. But more importantly,

9:44

who stamped them? But

9:46

my idea was that this is my

9:48

face with the Belgian. He knows that

9:50

the Belgian guy is a senior

9:52

thing of the unit So

9:54

if I am with

9:54

him, I probably working with

9:57

him. But it was

9:59

hugely risky. Saddam

10:01

was officially an enemy of Israel.

10:03

Bent on the destruction of the

10:05

Zionist state. Dani

10:07

knew that if the Sudanese caught him

10:09

in literal Zionist activity,

10:12

Trafficking Jews who would

10:14

likely be killed.

10:16

But by this point, he

10:18

was all in. And

10:21

so I did what I needed to do

10:23

and without any sort

10:25

of

10:27

Second thoughts. He

10:31

rings headquarters asking his

10:33

boss to contact all embassies Mossad

10:36

had good relations with in Cartune.

10:38

They should accept all

10:40

refugee relocation requests That

10:43

is all requests from a man

10:45

named

10:45

Antoine. The

10:47

rest, I'll take care of. Dany

10:50

says.

10:51

A few days later, Danny's

10:53

boss contacts him. Several

10:56

embassies, including the Swiss,

10:58

the French, the Germans and the

11:00

Greeks are on board or at

11:02

least their intelligence agencies

11:04

are. In turn, they

11:06

would instruct their diplomats to do

11:08

as asked. The latter not

11:10

knowing they would be issuing false

11:12

passport requests to Sudanese

11:14

officials. Faraday

11:16

gives Danny the names of sixteen

11:18

Ethiopian Jews he has found in

11:20

the camps. Stating

11:22

his name as Antoine. Danny

11:25

goes to each embassy and

11:27

collects the passport requests. Then,

11:30

he heads to the Sudanese interior

11:32

ministry

11:33

itself. And it

11:34

was like a pilot, you know, see how

11:36

they react.

11:37

There, he meets the same official he had

11:40

encountered several times with

11:42

the Belgium. I was

11:44

lucky because this guy did not

11:46

engage in any conversations

11:48

and not because he didn't know English in

11:50

your English. It was just this

11:52

type of, you know, arrogant, he

11:54

didn't talk to this infidels.

11:58

And so that was my luck. I

12:00

didn't need to do any small talk with

12:02

him. So I said, good morning in

12:05

Arabic. And I put my list on

12:07

his table. He looked at

12:09

me for just

12:11

fraction of a

12:11

second. Then he counted

12:13

the names and he went to the couple and he

12:15

brought me twenty five passports.

12:18

That was it. Once stamped,

12:21

Danny took the passports to show Faraday.

12:23

He could hardly believe

12:25

it. We have

12:27

a system Danny shouted.

12:29

That month, May

12:32

nineteen seventy nine, they took the

12:34

first sixteen Ethiopian

12:36

Jews to Cartume Airport.

12:38

None of them had been on an airplane before.

12:41

But with Danny and Faraday's instructions,

12:43

they approached the desk, checked

12:45

in and slipped out of view. After

12:48

landing in Greece, they took a

12:50

connecting flight to

12:51

Israel. Ferahe's brothers

12:54

were among them. Two months

12:56

later, another sixteen Ethiopian

12:59

Jews arrived in the promised

13:00

land Most broke down

13:03

in tears upon landing. Others

13:05

kissed the ground, while one even

13:07

ate the soil under his

13:09

feet. And fulfillment of a

13:11

lifelong dream. The

13:12

process was complete and

13:15

was perfect. Now

13:16

knowing they could get Jews out,

13:19

Feraheme made a bold decision.

13:21

He sent his emissary to

13:23

his family and he took some time

13:25

and he didn't get any answer. We

13:27

were worried that maybe the the message

13:30

was intercepted, maybe something happened,

13:32

and he says, look, I think I'm

13:34

going to walk into if you

13:36

appear to the closest Jewish

13:37

village. Danny was under

13:39

orders, but no point

13:41

he did cross the border out of

13:44

Sudan, but headquarters

13:46

didn't need to know. And I said,

13:48

okay. If you go on going also, But both

13:50

of them knew a white man would

13:52

attract too much attention 23 seen.

13:55

So Danny came up with an idea.

13:57

Paint me. I'll dress

13:59

local. And we

14:01

walk by night at night, nobody can see

14:03

that this is fake.

14:05

Faraday covered Danny. With

14:07

charcoal and they set off.

14:10

He thought I would slow him down, you

14:13

know, because they walk very quickly.

14:15

I was a former patrupper,

14:17

so I can walk quickly and

14:19

long walks too.

14:21

It was like a challenge.

14:23

After three nights, they arrived in a

14:25

Jewish village far in the

14:27

northwest of Ethiopia. Faraday

14:29

tells the village elders of the route

14:32

to Israel. Imploring them to

14:34

bring their people across the

14:35

border. And suddenly, for

14:37

the seas that they're looking at me, so lets

14:40

his figure and it does cross

14:42

my cheek and, oh,

14:44

the white appears. And

14:47

it tells

14:47

them, okay, this is a white brother.

14:49

The villagers had never even heard

14:52

of white Jews, let

14:54

alone see one. So

14:57

these was the beginning of

14:59

the coming of people from another

15:01

direction. With Jews now

15:03

coming into Sudan from several

15:05

different areas of Ethiopia, The

15:07

system needed improving. Dani

15:10

leased two compounds on cartoons

15:13

outskirts, housing up to seventy

15:15

people in each. But

15:17

while the route out of Sudan via

15:19

the airport was

15:20

working, it could only take

15:23

so many. For

15:25

every twenty person, thirty

15:27

persons, we get thirty persons. But

15:29

actually, we have fifty or sixty or

15:31

seventy people or more. So

15:33

Faraday offered a solution. It

15:35

was a creative guy. Why

15:37

don't we try family passports? Faraday

15:40

says That way,

15:42

several Jews could get out on just

15:44

one. It was a risk to

15:46

Danny, but an acceptable

15:48

one. The

15:49

first one we talked to adults

15:51

and three children was not

15:53

the parents with the children. We created

15:55

a family photos everything

15:57

names and so

15:58

on. Danny goes

16:02

with the family to the check-in desk

16:04

and presents the document. Immediately,

16:08

the official looks

16:08

amused. What is

16:11

this? He asked downey. So I

16:13

told him, look, you know, we are the United

16:15

Nations. We are very sensitive

16:17

to the environment and, you

16:19

know, order to manufacture paper,

16:21

you need to cut trees.

16:24

So it's a lot of

16:24

paper, so it's a lot of trees. We

16:27

are trying to spare the trees, so

16:29

we are using now a family

16:31

passport. Still looking a

16:33

little

16:33

bemused, the official pauses. I

16:36

don't know what would have happened. He

16:38

had called this superior.

16:41

Probably there would be a

16:41

problem, but

16:44

he

16:44

didn't. The official stamps

16:46

the passport and the family

16:48

heads through security. Dani

16:51

tells the Belgium from the

16:53

UN

16:53

HCR, the same story.

16:55

I told him, look, the

16:57

question of the environment, the question

16:59

is real. I mean, you know, if

17:01

we can spare some

17:02

trees, it's good for the planet.

17:05

And on the other hand, maybe

17:07

take even more people than some.

17:09

Even he buys

17:11

it. He went to the authorities and he said this

17:13

and that, but actually, he became official.

17:15

Faraday had just multiplied

17:17

the number of Jews they could rescue.

17:20

By at least several times. The

17:23

more they used the family

17:24

passport, the bolder

17:27

Danny became. The most hotbedic

17:29

one was one

17:31

passport with fifteen persons.

17:33

The parents and thirteen

17:36

children now the family photo

17:38

was

17:38

small, so you you actually could

17:40

not see anything. It was like little dots

17:42

on the photograph. And it

17:45

passed The passport was so bold that

17:47

to this day, the mossad have

17:49

it displayed in their private

17:51

museum. The momento

17:53

to the often crazy lengths

17:55

Danny went to to complete

17:57

his

17:57

mission. Back in nineteen

18:00

ninety nine, young woman from South

18:02

Carolina vanished. Seven

18:04

years passed, she was presumed

18:07

dead. Then a tip

18:09

came in. Said, I think I girl

18:11

and she's alive and she's in New York.

18:13

And I said, really,

18:15

the detective on the case, he

18:17

didn't buy 23. He came to

18:19

believe that he was dealing with an impostor. Who

18:22

was this

18:23

woman? Really? Listen to

18:25

deep cover wherever you get your

18:28

podcasts.

18:29

By this time,

18:31

Dani felt it was only right

18:33

that Faraday was made an official

18:36

mossad agent. With a salary.

18:38

He's doing the same job as me, maybe

18:40

even riskier. Headquarter

18:43

agrees on one condition. Feraheme

18:45

must come to Israel to complete

18:47

basic training. Danny

18:50

argued it wasn't necessary.

18:53

Come on. What cause? They are

18:55

not serious. He can give you

18:57

a cause. Because of the

19:00

conditions of their

19:00

lives, many things that he

19:03

did as a young Jewish

19:06

leader were things that

19:08

were clandestine in some way.

19:10

But headquarters insisted. And

19:12

with that, Faraday Aklum went to

19:15

Israel. Fulfilling a

19:17

boyhood dream. Overcome

19:20

with excitement, and with money

19:22

now in his account, Faraday does something

19:24

he's never done

19:25

before. First

19:26

thing he

19:27

did, he bought a car. But

19:29

there was

19:30

a problem. He never

19:32

learned how to drive before

19:35

leaving Sudan Feverde was

19:37

now mossed, however, and given

19:39

a driving license along with his

19:41

first

19:41

paycheck. So he

19:42

went to the car dealer

19:45

pay for the car, brand

19:47

new car, and

19:48

about, I don't know, five

19:51

kilometers later.

19:54

He went into

19:57

a tree. Total loss.

20:00

Despite the incident, headquarters soon

20:02

understood Danny's point.

20:04

There was no need to train Faraday.

20:06

He was capable enough.

20:08

Within a

20:09

week, he was back in

20:11

Sudan. was totally

20:14

superfluous, but he

20:16

had stepped on

20:18

Israeli soil and that gave him

20:20

a super motivation and

20:22

he came back full of

20:23

energy. And he wasn't the

20:26

only one. Other

20:29

Ethiopian Jews were now coming to Sudan

20:31

also. Lots of them.

20:34

But with the evacuation program

20:36

ramping up, there's a problem.

20:38

One day, Danny and

20:41

Faraday go as usual to the

20:43

ministry to collect passports. But

20:45

this

20:45

time. The trip was anything but

20:48

usual. I wanted this. I want this

20:51

thing. Go up to the first

20:53

floor, knock at the door, open the door,

20:55

nobody there. I go to the

20:57

neighboring office and I said, what is this

20:59

one? It says, I went

21:00

out. I don't know when it comes

21:01

back. So,

21:02

okay, so there is nothing for me

21:05

to do. I go back to the car,

21:06

and as I exit the

21:09

building, in front of

21:11

my eyes, I see further

21:13

being dragged by the color of his

21:16

shirt by a

21:18

civilian policeman.

21:20

Faraday into the back of his

21:23

unmarked car. The plain clothed

21:25

policeman drives

21:25

off. Danny runs to his

21:28

jeep in pursuit. And

21:30

immediately, I saw that he was going to the

21:32

police headquarters. He reached the police headquarters.

21:35

The guy raises the

21:36

arrears. And before he has time to lower

21:39

it up, I go inside the

21:41

courtyard. Pulled into a

21:43

windowless room. Faraday's

21:45

worst fear has come true.

21:47

The Sudanese have

21:49

caught him, but

21:51

then the door opened.

21:54

In walks, not a policeman, but

21:56

Danny, he had pushed past the guard

21:59

straight into the building,

22:00

If I

22:01

let him out of my side, anything

22:04

can happen. Anything.

22:06

Faraday tells Danny he tried to bribe

22:08

the policeman on route to the

22:10

station. Which backfired. And the guy

22:13

so you're attempting to

22:15

bribe a Sudanese police

22:17

officer. He accused him of

22:20

driving. Shortly after,

22:22

however,

22:22

another man walks into the

22:25

room. This officer

22:27

was huge. The

22:29

officer

22:29

shouts at Faraday in Arabic,

22:32

a

22:32

refugee without a passport in

22:35

Sudan, trying to bribe a policeman.

22:37

So Friday tells him,

22:40

I'm sorry, I don't think of

22:42

it. Instantly, the officer

22:44

punches

22:44

Faraday. I

22:46

thought he was going to cut his

22:49

head off.

22:50

Danny knows he must do

22:53

something. Why are

22:56

you waiting in? What is it done to

22:58

you? The officer slams Danny

23:00

against the

23:01

war. You

23:02

don't speak. He says, you

23:05

go. I know I can go, but I don't want to go.

23:07

I'm going only if he's coming

23:09

with me. The officer

23:10

replies. So you want to remain

23:13

you want to stay. Take them to the

23:15

cell, both. And

23:18

with

23:18

that, Danny and Faraday were in

23:21

prison.

23:21

It was almost dark.

23:24

No windows nothing. Question

23:26

of survival because

23:29

as soon as I saw who was

23:31

in the cell? It was not like refugees

23:34

or something. It

23:36

was criminals, blue colors in the

23:38

criminal. And I thought,

23:40

well, they're going to get

23:42

fresh meat. Your pink guy,

23:44

white guy, fresh meat.

23:46

Danny's mass up training kicks

23:48

in. My first thought was

23:50

to put my hour dioxide

23:53

against the

23:53

wall. You don't want to be in the center

23:55

of that place. A

23:57

stench pervades the cell. To

23:59

take his mind off it, Danny goes

24:02

to light a

24:02

cigarette. As soon as

24:03

I took out the pack of cigarettes from

24:05

my pocket, it was taken

24:07

over by someone.

24:10

Calm. Danny spots and

24:12

opportunity.

24:12

And I saw that you could see that

24:15

he was in

24:16

charge. Danny sees he has

24:19

his cigarettes. Then it

24:19

came. Can I have one cigarette from my

24:22

pack he gave me? And then

24:23

I said, do you want to have a

24:26

constant supply cigarettes

24:29

and bread and drinking

24:31

water. Danny Hanson, ten

24:34

Sudanese pounds. A large

24:36

sum and tells him to call the

24:38

guard and ask for it. Then

24:40

Danny

24:40

offers him a

24:42

deal. He'll

24:43

keep giving him money for cigarettes,

24:45

bread, whatever he wanted.

24:48

There's just one thing he

24:50

wants

24:50

in return. Protection. don't want to

24:53

worry at night that something would

24:55

happen to my brother or to

24:56

myself. The prisoner agrees telling

24:59

his henchmen to look out for the

25:01

white man. And his Ethiopian friend.

25:03

To

25:04

Danny, the deal was simply this

25:06

sort of thing he had learned to value

25:08

over years of being a true

25:10

spy. You know, you

25:13

put as many assets on your side

25:16

as you can.

25:17

With the immediate danger of the sound

25:19

negotiated, Danny

25:21

turns his attention to getting Faraday

25:23

out of it altogether.

25:26

But it seems almost

25:28

impossible. I was not very optimistic

25:30

about the result of

25:31

this. And further, I was sure that

25:34

it was the end. Just

25:36

leave me. Faraday says,

25:38

you can still get out.

25:39

Is it what? You're hurting?

25:42

You're vexing me. What do you

25:44

mean?

25:44

Leave? If

25:46

it was a different situation, would you leave

25:48

me alone in in this cell? Several

25:51

days go by. Each night,

25:53

they take it in turns to sleep.

25:55

They witness

25:56

rapes, attacks, death.

26:00

But

26:00

Danny's deal with the cell's alpha

26:03

male is holding They're left

26:06

untouched. Eventually, they're let

26:08

out into the prison courtyard. Surveiling

26:12

the perimeter, Danny spots the

26:14

policeman who arrested Faraday,

26:17

but he's not

26:17

alone. He's talking to

26:20

someone. Someone Danny

26:22

knows. I recognized the

26:25

driver of the head of the

26:27

UNHCR office. He

26:29

knew that I was a friend of the

26:31

deputy, the pension guy, I

26:33

seen

26:33

him, you know, several times.

26:35

The driver rushes over to

26:37

Danny asking what he's doing

26:40

inside. Look,

26:42

you know, it's a misunderstanding.

26:45

And he works for me as

26:47

an interpreter. And

26:49

they arrested

26:50

him. The driver says he'll see

26:53

what he can do. But

26:55

after several days, there's

26:57

bad news. The

26:59

Sudanese will not release Faraday.

27:01

He is Ethiopian and worse

27:03

than

27:03

that, not a Muslim.

27:06

He will stay here for the rest of

27:08

his life.

27:10

Even the head of the UNHCR

27:13

in Sudan himself went to

27:15

the prison, but still

27:17

no luck. Not

27:18

one to give up however. Dani speaks to

27:20

the driver again. Who is

27:22

this guy you're

27:23

talking to? This is the policeman that

27:26

arrested Meredith.

27:27

Here's my cousin, the driver says.

27:30

Danny tells

27:32

him to get all charges against

27:35

Faraday dropped. Whatever

27:37

the price. Two days

27:39

later, Danny is pulled out of the

27:42

cell and marched in to see the

27:44

commanding officer. The

27:46

bribery charge against Faraday

27:48

has been

27:48

withdrawn. But Yeah.

27:50

I have to pay fine

27:53

of such and such some and you have

27:55

to pay for the food and the water

27:57

for these days that we spend

27:59

there and then you will

28:01

be freed Danny

28:03

paid the son, three

28:05

hundred Sudanese pounds to the officer

28:07

and the same amount again to the

28:09

policeman who accused Faraday of trying

28:11

to bribe

28:12

him. The irony

28:14

of the exercise wasn't lost

28:16

on anyone. Now, this

28:17

is the best joke that you can ever hear.

28:20

Try to bribe a police officer.

28:23

Feraheme

28:23

was brought out of the cell and

28:25

after eleven days, both

28:27

he and Danny were

28:29

released. As a Mossad agent,

28:32

Dani knew it was mandatory to

28:34

report any sort of imprisonment in

28:36

an enemy country. He

28:38

also knew that once headquarters found out they would

28:41

terminate the mission. So

28:44

he never reported

28:45

it. I only told my head of the vision, long

28:48

years after both of us were not

28:50

ready in the service. And he

28:52

agreed with me that had

28:54

I told him at the time

28:56

that I was arrested and I even

28:58

I told him we came out and nothing happened

29:01

and we are not being followed or under

29:03

surveillance or whatever, you would have

29:05

said, doesn't matter out.

29:08

You and Freddie. So

29:10

he agreed that in

29:11

retrospective, the fact that I didn't

29:14

say was probably

29:16

23 would have

29:17

done the same. Life in the field. Dani

29:20

was prepared to do whatever it

29:22

took to get the job

29:23

done, including ignoring

29:27

agency rules.

29:28

And I always say the for people that ask me

29:30

up, you know, how can you do that? They

29:32

will fire you. They will do this. I

29:34

said, okay. So they fire me. What I

29:37

mean, After duith,

29:39

that's

29:39

it. Getting straight

29:42

back to work and with the numbers

29:44

of Ethiopian Jews swelling,

29:47

faraday brought in help. Forming

29:49

what became known as the committee,

29:52

Faraday recruited trusted male

29:54

Jews to be organizers in

29:56

the camps.

29:56

Feraheme would tell

29:57

them how many were to be evacuated and

29:59

they would arrange everything, leading

30:01

the groups to

30:02

Danny, to traffic to the airport.

30:06

Over the first six months of nineteen

30:09

eighty, some six hundred Ethiopian

30:11

Jews were smuggled out of Sudan

30:13

on refugee family

30:15

passports. Landing in European countries

30:18

before being taken to Israel.

30:21

While only

30:23

a fraction of the total number

30:26

of beat to Israel. Dani and Faraday's

30:28

improvised evacuation system

30:30

was working well. That is

30:33

until August nineteen

30:35

eighty. Hearing that

30:37

there might also be Jews in Port

30:39

Sudan some nine hundred kilometers

30:42

away, Danny and Faraday went

30:44

to look. Finding

30:46

nothing. They returned to Khartoum and

30:49

visited one of the two compounds

30:51

Danny had rented to house the

30:52

Jews. We

30:53

arrived and knocked knock?

30:57

Nothing happens? Dani

30:59

knocks again. Nothing

31:02

happened. Both he and Faraday

31:04

knew something was wrong.

31:06

Signaling for them to

31:07

retreat, Danny walks back to

31:10

the car. then up the

31:12

door opens and two guys each one

31:14

with a pistol jump out,

31:16

and one pushes me against the

31:18

wall and it puts the gun like

31:20

this. North of my nose and

31:22

starts shouting and how big?

31:25

Keeping his cool, Danny grabs the

31:27

end of the pistol. And they slowly pushed it

31:29

outside my face. We're

31:31

from the United Nations. Danny

31:33

says before turning his back to the

31:35

men and getting in the

31:37

car.

31:37

If he fires the

31:40

fires, what can I do?

31:41

With Faraday hiding unseen in

31:43

the passenger footwell, Danny flaws

31:46

it.

31:47

Knowing the

31:47

entire mission may now be

31:50

compromised, he heads to the second

31:52

compound. And without

31:53

knocking at the door, just

31:56

went on the three meters

31:57

wall. From

32:00

there, Danny sees a committee

32:03

member inside the

32:04

gate. Immediately, he tells Danny

32:06

that the secret police have found the

32:08

first compound. And more

32:10

than that, they have faraday's

32:13

picture Danny knew it was

32:15

over. Faraday was

32:17

burned. His photo would

32:19

now likely be at every border crossing

32:22

and check point in the

32:22

country. So I want him out. But

32:25

how? No. It's the middle of the

32:27

night. I could

32:29

further take a place to wait

32:31

for

32:31

23. It was up in a tree,

32:33

his decision. Danny

32:36

tries to think. He had good

32:38

relations with several of the

32:40

airlines at cartoon airport and one person

32:42

in particular, a ticket

32:44

agent that Swiss Air. At

32:46

the time, they used to write tickets.

32:49

Having bought so many tickets

32:51

personally from the agent, Danny had

32:53

gotten to know

32:54

her. For her,

32:55

I was a very good

32:57

client. Once I took her home from the

32:59

office, so I knew where she

33:00

lived. Danny drives to her house

33:03

and knocks on the door. Her

33:05

father opens it. I asking

33:07

Danny what do you

33:07

want? I'd like to speak to your

33:10

daughter. What now

33:11

in the

33:12

middle of the night. Then I started

33:14

to explain, look, have a guy who is

33:16

very sick, he has tuberculosis and

33:19

have already vaccinated again and

33:21

so on and so

33:21

on, but

33:22

I need to

33:22

get him out Tomorrow I

33:25

found in a place in

33:27

Switzerland where I can be taken care

33:29

of. Hearing the

33:31

clamor downstairs, The ticket agent appears at the

33:33

door. I'm sure

33:35

she pauses saying

33:37

nothing. So the father says, no,

33:39

it's important. Okay. We've

33:41

got Five minutes later, I

33:43

have her, two brothers and

33:45

the father, all of them in the car, and

33:47

we go to the

33:49

office. She opens, you know, Doctor Doctor Doctor makes

33:51

a ticket. Taking the ticket,

33:53

Danny then mentions the VIP

33:56

lane at the airport. Those

33:58

VIPs, you know, ministers or whatever,

34:00

they don't go through customs

34:02

and through police control, not thing, they

34:04

come with a car up to the stairs and they

34:07

go up to the plane and that's it. Well, when I want

34:09

the same thing for him, because

34:11

I don't want him to go through the

34:13

airport cuffing and contaminating the whole

34:16

thing.

34:17

Absolutely not. The agent says. But again, her

34:20

father intervened agreeing to

34:22

do it. Dani hands

34:24

the agent fifty Sudanese pounds

34:27

to give to the VIP lane guard and

34:30

drives back to Faraday's hiding

34:32

place. From there, they

34:34

drive to the airport. The

34:36

guard opens the gate and they

34:38

approach the

34:39

plane. And I told further now you're

34:41

going to be coughing all

34:43

the time until you're out of

34:46

Sudanese airspace.

34:47

Standing at the top of the passenger's

34:50

step, Danny and

34:52

Faraday embrace. The stewardesses can't believe their

34:53

eyes. Someone hugging a man with

34:56

tuberculosis. We kiss three

34:57

times like

35:00

Louis Ethiopia. After

35:02

eighteen months together, Faraday

35:04

and Danny had rescued over six

35:07

hundred Ethiopian Jews. Survived

35:10

Sudanese prison and become

35:12

brothers.

35:13

Eventually, both also lost their

35:16

marriages

35:17

to the mission. After

35:20

saying negative buys, Faraday

35:22

flew off to the promised land while

35:24

he lived for the rest of his

35:26

life. Becoming a champion for thebeaten Israel cause.

35:28

Now that was the end of the

35:31

story of Feraheme. But

35:33

despite

35:33

all he had been through and now

35:36

having lost his partner,

35:38

Danny was determined to

35:39

continue. The challenges

35:42

was simply 23 job to

35:44

him. This type of

35:47

intelligence agencies, one thing

35:49

I can tell you, real

35:51

life is totally different. It can be

35:53

very frustrating. You're not drinking

35:56

martini with the olive

35:58

and taking out your gun and

36:00

shooting someone. Never

36:02

happens. If you have

36:04

to eliminate someone

36:06

who is endangering something, okay,

36:09

but most of the time you're doing

36:11

things using your mind

36:14

thinking and taking

36:15

risks, but you're prepared to

36:18

those risks. But still,

36:20

Danny couldn't continue alone.

36:22

Knowing he couldn't replace

36:24

Faraday, he recruited a team of people

36:26

to fill the role.

36:27

One of them

36:28

was to Kelly Maconan, also

36:31

an Ethiopian Jew. We

36:34

hear that

36:36

Jews from Tigri region arrived to Sudan and come

36:38

to Job Salim. That rumor

36:40

is spreading in the

36:44

village like fire.

36:46

The information gets all

36:49

over Ethiopia. And we said

36:51

that is our chance. just

36:54

sixteen, Tequila and two of his school friends

36:56

had decided to walk across the

36:58

border. We know it's a very

37:00

very dangerous journey, big because

37:03

of the third government, almost

37:06

half of our journey is

37:08

controlled by the

37:10

third

37:10

militaries. And half of the journey is

37:12

desert, very hot desert through

37:14

Sudan. And we thought

37:16

that it took two weeks

37:19

In fact, it took more than

37:22

four. We are talking about six

37:24

hundred kilometer. It's very

37:28

very exhausting physically also is

37:29

mentally. Eventually however, Tequila

37:32

and his friends arrived in one of the

37:34

refugee camps. We don't

37:36

have

37:37

anything. We don't have anything to eat. No vegetables,

37:40

no meat, nothing, nothing nothing.

37:42

And it is a really,

37:44

really hot or very

37:46

huge camp. And we start

37:48

to be sick. A lot

37:50

of us is very sick in

37:52

Desintering in Malaria.

37:54

Growing desperate, They decided to move

37:57

on to another camp. We

37:58

know that the two great Jews were in

38:00

Sudan, but we don't know

38:02

where. Eventually, Tequila arrived at Gudarraf camp.

38:04

There he found other Jews

38:06

who took him to meet with the

38:10

mossad agent. Danny comes

38:15

with

38:17

a chip. We're

38:20

being shocked. It's a miracle, Danny with

38:22

his

38:22

grip in

38:22

the middle of the desert, like

38:26

an angel. Danny makes

38:28

Tekele one of the junior committee

38:30

men organizing Jews in the

38:32

camps while arranging their

38:34

escapes

38:35

out of them. And he said, I I will come back next

38:37

week. You have to bring to this

38:40

point and he

38:41

choose. That's the order

38:43

that we get. And we start in

38:45

that point working with Danny. The word is

38:48

out. Scores of Ethiopian

38:50

Jews flock to Sudan every day

38:53

hope of being spirited to Israel

38:56

by Danny and the

38:58

committee. But the mission is

39:00

becoming a victim of its

39:02

own six

39:02

us. So many people began to arrive

39:05

from Ethiopia that we could not cope

39:07

with that number on this

39:10

trail

39:11

to curtail.

39:12

Danny knew he needed another larger evacuation

39:16

route. He had thought of using the

39:18

sea before

39:20

but the logistics were difficult. From the

39:22

main refugee camp, Gdara, to

39:25

Cartune, was four hundred

39:28

kilometers. From Gudara to the

39:30

coast, however, was nine

39:32

hundred

39:33

kilometers. That's

39:33

a huge distance, and you cannot do it in

39:36

one night. And there are also

39:38

roadblocks. And roadblocks were

39:39

often the biggest issue. When the

39:42

law is

39:44

stopped, We are jumping out from the lorry and speak to the robotics.

39:46

They beat us. Always they beat

39:48

us. They beat me a lot

39:51

with no other options

39:54

however, Dani concluded that the

39:56

sea may be the only

39:57

way. This is

39:59

what prompted my recording since ripped

40:01

along the coast.

40:02

Having now recruited

40:05

two new Mossad agents to the

40:08

mission, Danny that off for the

40:10

coast. We started going

40:12

northwards from Bosudan along the

40:14

coast of

40:16

Third Track, It was a very hot day that we didn't have

40:18

any air condition in the car. It

40:20

was really,

40:20

really, really very hot. On

40:23

the horizon, Danny something.

40:26

It seems like mirage.

40:28

Getting closer, he makes

40:30

out several white bungalows

40:32

with red tiled roofs.

40:35

All built a Mediterranean style. Pulling

40:38

up, dally spots are

40:39

bedouin, guarding the area. You

40:41

took me on

40:44

a tour. And he showed me everything. The the

40:46

on street

40:47

showers, and toilets, and

40:50

diving gear.

40:51

It was in London diving resort. And he told

40:53

me that if I was

40:54

thinking of renting the place, he is

40:57

well with the director general of

40:59

the Ministry of Tourism

41:01

in Cartón.

41:02

Dani goes straight to meet with

41:04

the director general, one colonel

41:06

Madube. He didn't know

41:08

how

41:09

much to ask. So he's

41:12

telling me, okay, how much you want to

41:14

pay per year? I said it's your

41:16

property. You have to tell me, and

41:18

then I will tell you. Half

41:20

a million

41:20

dollars. The colonel says

41:23

per year. Okay. That's

41:25

a sum. I have to get him down.

41:27

That's it too

41:28

hungry. No

41:28

way. The colonel replies. Three

41:30

hundred. I look at the waiting

41:32

room and I say, but

41:36

sir, I don't see anybody else

41:38

waiting, queuing for the leasing of this place.

41:41

The canal pauses.

41:43

Fine. Two

41:46

hundred and fifty thousand dollars

41:49

a year. Daniel

41:51

please. And I even had him sign

41:53

a paper with his name and

41:55

his title because I I wanted

41:57

back

41:57

home, the people to believe me. This

41:59

is true.

42:00

This is not something

42:02

that, you know, I dreamed.

42:07

Danny now has the perfect cover to

42:09

bring more agents into Sudan

42:12

and potentially get more

42:15

Jews out. Next time on TrueSpies,

42:18

one of the most daring cover

42:20

operations in the history of

42:22

espionage begins.

42:25

We,

42:25

of course, did also some

42:28

promoting travel agencies

42:30

in Europe that to specialize in diving

42:32

in exotic places and so

42:34

on. And when we opened officially, we started having

42:36

clients. We, of course, were thrilled.

42:38

You know, it was really

42:41

something totally strange

42:44

for us. But

42:47

then disaster strikes. Except

42:50

for one bolt, the beach was

42:52

empty, and that boat was stuck

42:54

in the sun. It was the

42:57

last boat it was full of people that were trying

42:59

to push it back and it

43:01

didn't.

43:01

And one

43:02

of the soldiers in front of

43:05

me he started running towards the boat with his

43:07

calatrical ready to shoot. So

43:10

before I could do anything,

43:12

he should I'm Sofia

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Join us next week

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for the third installment of true

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spies, exodus.

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The date was

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set for another evacuation.

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Danny orders Gag to take up an observation post in

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the corner of the cove. Gag radios

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Danny. We've got company. And then

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tells me they are soldiers.