Mossad’s Nazi Commando

The Shocking True Story of Otto Skorzeny and Israel’s Secret War Against Egypt’s Rocket Program

By: Gary Covella

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

MOSSAD’S NAZI COMMANDO

The Shocking True Story of Otto Skorzeny and Israel’s Secret War Against Egypt’s Rocket Program

By Gary Covella, Ph.D.

A Scar-Faced Nazi. A Nation on the Brink of Annihilation. A Deal with the Devil.

What if Israel’s most dangerous Cold War operation did not involve hunting a Nazi—but recruiting one?

This is the astonishing, deeply unsettling true story of Otto Skorzeny, Adolf Hitler’s most notorious commando, and the secret alliance that forced Israel to confront the unthinkable in order to survive.

A New Existential Threat

In the early 1960s, barely fifteen years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the State of Israel faced a nightmare that defied belief. Across the desert in Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser unveiled a new weapons program capable of delivering destruction deep into Israeli territory. The threat was not merely Soviet tanks or MiG fighters. It was something far darker.

Former Nazi rocket scientists—men who once built weapons for the Third Reich—were now working for Egypt, designing missiles with the range to strike Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. Their expertise came straight from the shadow of Hitler’s V-2 program. Their goal was explicit. Their message was unmistakable. Israel’s destruction was no longer rhetorical—it was technical.

The world hesitated. Diplomatic protests stalled. Intelligence warnings piled up unanswered. For Israel, delay was not an option.

The Devil’s Bargain

Faced with annihilation, Mossad abandoned conventional playbooks. Instead of assassinations or airstrikes, Israel made a decision so controversial it remained buried for decades.

They approached Otto Skorzeny.

Skorzeny was a living legend of Nazi terror. He rescued Mussolini from a mountaintop prison. He ran deception operations during the Battle of the Bulge. He organized postwar escape networks for SS officers. Scarred, charismatic, and ruthless, he was feared even among his former allies.

Mossad did not come to arrest him. They came to hire him.

Inside the Secret War

What followed was a clandestine campaign fought in hotel rooms, safehouses, and shadowy European streets. Psychological warfare. Sabotage. Intimidation. Scientists vanished. Shipments disappeared. Entire missile projects quietly collapsed.

At the center of it all stood a former Nazi commando now feeding Israel intelligence on the very networks he once protected. The alliance stunned even Mossad’s own officers—many of them Holocaust survivors or the children of victims.

Every success bought time. Every operation deepened the moral crisis. Could a nation founded by survivors justify cooperation with a man tied to the machinery of genocide?

Unsealed Files. Buried Truths.

Drawing on investigative research, historical records, and long-suppressed accounts, Mossad’s Nazi Commando reveals the hidden mechanics of Operation Damocles, including the disappearance of key figures, the systematic dismantling of Egypt’s missile program, and the internal Israeli debate that threatened to tear the intelligence service apart.

This is not mythology. It is the documented history of how survival sometimes demands alliances no nation wants to admit.

Not Just History. A Warning.

In an era of cyber mercenaries, proxy wars, and intelligence contractors for hire, this story feels disturbingly modern.

When survival is at stake, where does morality end?

Is it ever justified to turn a monster into an ally?

Gary Covella, Ph.D., delivers a relentless, cinematic narrative of espionage, desperation, and ethical collapse. This is not historical fiction. It is the story the files were never meant to reveal.

Turn the page. The operation is already underway.

Teletubbies meet A/I - Frustratingly Repetitive

What happens when you mate Teletubbies and A/I??? A story told like this.

While the story is compelling and super interesting, I had to brave through the non stop repetition of the salient point of it. It’s as if each chapter (or paragraph) for that matter was an individual Atlantic online clickbait article. It tells a story, but you have to wade through the interminable b/s.

Reading by AI was ok though it still yas some kinks to work out.

The only benefit you have is that if you get distracted while driving or lathering in shampoo, you don’t need to rewind… because it will be repeated over and over again.

In short, unless it’s free, find another book about Otto Scorzeny.

Good history book

Interesting facts but each chapters is written like its own book so there is a lot of repetition of the same facts which makes most of the book boring.

Not much information

The book repeatedly goes back to questioning the mossads ethical delima of working with a former Nazi, hundreds of times. There are maybe 15 minutes of actual information about any of the actual operations. I got so repetitive that I had to stop listening. I suspect it was written with an AI without much knowledge of the events.