June 14, 2025
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Operation Rising Lion is the untold story of one of history's most audacious intelligence campaigns, narrated by the man who lived it.Marcus Cole spent twenty years coordinating Mossad's most sensitive operations. Now, at 52, he's ready to tell the story that's haunted him for seven years—how a midnight heist in Tehran sparked a shadow war that prevented nuclear catastrophe and cost him everything he had left to lose.
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My name is Marcus Cole. I'm not supposed to be
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telling you this story. For twenty years, I coordinated operations
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you'll never read about, missions that changed history while the
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world slept. I was good at it because I could
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see people as numbers in an equation, variables to be calculated,
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not lives to be mourned. My brother Daniel was supposed
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to be the hero. He died in Jennin in two
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thousand and two, and I've been carrying his dog tags
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ever since. Three months after his funeral, I walked into
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MASAD headquarters and volunteered to become someone I never wanted
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to be. January twenty eighteen, we had six hours to
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steal a RAN's nuclear secrets from a warehouse in Tehran.
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That heist was just the beginning of seven years. I
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can't forget seven years of impossible decisions, seven years of
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trading lives like chess pieces. June thirteenth, twenty twenty five,
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Operation Rising Lion, ulmination of everything we built, everyone we'd sacrificed,
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every line we'd crossed to prevent nuclear war. I keep
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a private file of everyone who died because of operations.
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I coordinated their names, their families, their dreams I help destroy.
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This is their story and mine and maybe yours if
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you can stomach the math of saving the world. Operation
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Rising Lion available wherever you get your podcasts.
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