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Veteran Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan this week revealed that he worked for decades as a spy for Israel, confirming rumors that had been swirling for years. A book published in 2011 claimed that Milchan worked in espionage and arms dealing for his native Israel, though the producer had never publicly addressed such reports until this week, when he described his secret work in an interview with Uvda, an Israeli investigative TV show. Milchan told the program that he was recruited into Israels Bureau of Scientific Relations in the 1960s at the urging of his friend Shimon Peres, the current Israeli president. He owned a fertilizer company at the time, and helped the bureau — which was founded to bolster Israels nuclear program — to obtain scientific information.