
Decades after World War II, Israel’s Mossad made a shocking decision: to reach out not to kill, but to recruit one of Hitler’s most infamous commandos, Otto Skorzeny. What drove this extraordinary move, and what does it reveal about espionage, morality, and survival in the shadow of history?In this episode of East to West, host Sarah Martinez Amir speaks with Oded Ailam, a former senior Mossad officer and JCFA researcher, who shares the inside story of how this operation unfolded, and what it tells us about the complex world of intelligence and postwar justice.