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By Way of Deception

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100 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONwimp. And so we began chatting about what to do when the policecame, how to prepare for the pain, all designed to make Ami moreuncomfortable than he already was. Bastards that we were, weenjoyed that.When a knock came at the door, Ami shot straight up, unable tohide his tension. The caller was Kauly, who was carrying a largemanila envelope for each <strong>of</strong> us. Ami shrieked at him, "I don't wantany more <strong>of</strong> this!" Kauly told him to go back and see Araleh Sherf,head <strong>of</strong> the Academy.Ami was later sent to join the Dizeng<strong>of</strong>f Street group, but when thepolice arrived there one night and kicked in the door, he stood up,said, "I've had enough <strong>of</strong> this," and just walked out, never toreturn.We were down to a dozen.Kauly's envelopes contained our assignments. My task was tomake contact with a man named Mike Harari, a name that meantnothing to me at the time; I was also to gather information on aman known to his friends as "Mikey," an ex- volunteer pilot duringthe War <strong>of</strong> Independence in the late 1940s.Kauly told us we'd have to help each other complete theassignments. That entailed devising a plan <strong>of</strong> operations and aroutine for our apartment security. He gave each <strong>of</strong> us somedocumentation — I was "Simon" again — and some report forms.First we had to devise a slick for hiding our papers, then develop acover story to explain why we were all in the apartment, shouldthe police raid it. The best way to do that was to invent a "chainreason." I might say I was from Holon and had come to Tel Avivwhere I met Jack, the apartment owner, at a café. "Jack said Icould use it because he was going abroad for two months," I'd say."Then I met Arik in a restaurant. I'd known him from the army inHaifa, so he's staying here." Avigdor would be Arik's friend, andthey would have a story, and so on, so that it would at least soundplausible. As for Kauly, we told him he'd have to invent his owncover story.We made a slick out <strong>of</strong> our living-room table, one <strong>of</strong> those frametables with a glass top over a wooden panel, by care-

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