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We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.

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I smuggled the camera, it was no problem to smuggle the camera there. And I took 60 photos, two films, during the time when there was no one in the control room, in the building.

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But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

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I said the kidnapping is a crime. I have the right to speak about the crime done against me. They didn't like me to speak about this crime. So I decided to reveal it to the public.

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But I decided then to take them to the far east because I knew with speaking these secrets there would be danger to my life and could end my freedom.

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That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.

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I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

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That was my revelation that was proved, with photos, to all of the world. That was the very important news that I brought to the world.

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All these, this cartel of spies who kidnapped me was the same group also involved in the nuclear proliferation during the Cold War.

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The main points were one, the amount of Israel's nuclear weapons, how many Israel had, that no one could predict or know, including the CIA. They were thinking about a number like 10 or 15. But I came out with a number between 150 to 200.

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During the 11 and half years I was in total isolation alone in a cell, only for two hours everyday to go to walk in a courtyard also alone.

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Next they decided to put me in total isolation. The first two years, they keep me in a small room, filled with light 24 hours and camera inside.

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After that I didn't develop the films. I keep them closed because I knew that if I develop them, someone can report me to the Shin Bet.

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And I also take photos of hydrogen bomb, from another part of the building. It was not part of my job, but I succeeded to go and take photos of the hydrogen bomb.

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But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

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From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

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I also was producing, working on other materials for the hydrogen bomb. They call it lithium-6 and tritium. I was working on these and the only use for lithium-6 is the hydrogen bomb.

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I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.

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I worked every day there, so I knew all the details. But I needed only some proof. So the proof was photos.

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My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.

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Second point is no one here could predict or know that Israel was involved or started producing the hydrogen bomb - the most advanced and powerful atomic bomb that can kill millions of people.

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So from the beginning they put me in total isolation for seven weeks after my kidnapping they even didn't admit I am in an Israeli prison.

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So I decided the only place I can speak to the world is from outside Israel.

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So, what they decide to do is to kidnap me. The way is to send someone to bring me to Rome, because they did not want to kidnap me in England.

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When I arrived to Israel, they told me you are not allowed to speak about the kidnapping, just secret. I was very angry. I don't accept such rule.

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