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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 125After several months in research, I was transferred to what was tome the most exciting department in the building, Kaisarut, orliaison. I was in the section called Dardasim, or "Smerfs," whichhandled the Far East and Africa. I worked under Amy Yaar.It was like a train station, sort <strong>of</strong> a mini foreign <strong>of</strong>fice to countriesIsrael has no formal ties with. Ex-generals and various formersecurity people would be sauntering in and out all the time,wearing visitors' tags and using their former Mossad contacts toarrange deals for their private companies — usually selling arms.Because these "consultants" couldn't go to certain countries asIsraelis, liaison would facilitate the sales by providing falsepassports and other items for them.It wasn't right, but nobody would ever say anything. Everyone feltthat one day he'd be a has-been, too, and likely doing the samething.Amy told me that if I received any unusual requests, I was not toask why, but simply to bring such things to his attention. One daya man came in and asked me to have a contract signed that hadto be approved by the prime minister. The contract was for thesale <strong>of</strong> between 20 and 30 U.S.-made Skyhawk fighters toIndonesia, something that contravened Israel's armamentagreement with the United States. They were not supposed toresell such armaments without U.S. approval."Okay," I said, "if you don't mind coming tomorrow, or leaving meyour phone number. I'll call you once it's taken care <strong>of</strong>.""No, I'll wait," he said.During my trip to IAI, I had seen about 30 <strong>of</strong> these Skyhawkfighter jets sitting on runway completely wrapped in bright yellowplastic, and ready for shipping. When we asked about it, they justsaid they were for shipment overseas, but they wouldn't tell uswhere they were going. I was quite sure there was no way theAmericans would approve <strong>of</strong> the sale

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