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Now a new tale of international intrigue is coming to light.

This one about film producer Arnon Milchan.

His double life was a not-so-closely-held secret

for decades.

In a recent interview for an Israeli documentary,

Milchan confirmed what had been rumored for years.

He was working for Israel's top spy agency all along.

Mayor Daron spent months interviewing Arnon Milchan

for a book he co-wrote two years ago

about the producer's secret life.

He basically told us about secretive operations

that he did for the state of Israel,

especially in order to get material, information,

equipments for the Israeli nuclear program.

In 2000, Milchan told 60 Minutes

how he used dozens of his companies around the world

to facilitate sales of hundreds of millions of dollars

of missiles and other weapons to Israel,

and he flat-out denied working for the Israeli government.

Was I a spy? No, I was not a spy.

Milchan now says he was integral

to developing Israel's nuclear program.

One thing I regret is not paying enough attention

to the image of me I created.

Do you know to what extent I've risked my life

for the country time and time again?

And in Hollywood, they keep on saying arms dealer

after more than 150 films.

F**k them.

I did it for my country and I'm proud of it.

You know that the years that you were doing King of Comedy

and Once Upon a Time in America

were perhaps the most traumatic years for him?

Yes.

In that respect?

Yes.

I did ask him once, we spoke about something

and he told me that he was an Israeli

and that he of course would do these things for his country.

There's something with the little,

the little, the things that trigger a nuclear thing.

I remember at some point I had asked Arnon about that,

being friends, I was curious,

but not in an accusatory way, I just wanted to know.

And he said, yeah, I'm Israeli, that's my country,

yeah, that's right, you know.

Israel basically built all their centrifuges

to enrich uranium based on information

that Milchand collected for them.

So this information that the Israeli government used

to build these nuclear centrifuges

was obtained from his spine?

Yes, absolutely, directly.