Israel's extraction of stolen nuclear data was a two-year operation that culminated with Mossad agents smuggling hundreds of kilograms of paper and files out of Iran with authorities "on their tails," The Times of Israel reports.
The data proves that Iran "lied" and is still growing and maintaining a clandestine nuclear weapons program, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu detailed earlier this week.
Locating and sneaking out the data, however, reads like something out of a spy novel.
Mossad agents located the dilapidated warehouse that housed the date in February of 2016 and kept the location under surveillance since then, The New York Times reported earlier this week.
The warehouse was maintained by the Revolutionary Guard, The Times of Israel reported.
"Now, from the outside, this was an innocent looking compound," Netanyahu said this week, adding "but from the inside, it contained Iran’s secret atomic archives locked in massive files."
Then in January, Mossad agents infiltrated the warehouse, stole the files and moved them to a secondary location, and then worked up a plan to extract them and the files out of Iran, the Times reported.
Iranians became aware that the files were missing and were "on their tails" as Mossad agents fled the country.
Iran launched a wave of arrests in the wake of Netanyahu's speech this week, which could result in executions for those under whose watch the files were stolen, the Times reports.
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