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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 131"My God," I said "What is this? We've got Sinhalese, Tamils, andnow Indians. Who's next?"The SWAT team was supposed to train at the same base whereYosy had the Tamils, a tricky and potentially volatile situation.And I still had my regular <strong>of</strong>fice work to do, along with the dailyreports. In the evenings, I took the SWAT team to dinner, againmaking sure none <strong>of</strong> the groups ended up in the same place.Every day I had an envelope brought to me with about $300 inIsraeli currency to spend on them.At the same time, I was meeting with a Taiwanese air-force generalnamed Key, the representative <strong>of</strong> their intelligence community inIsrael. He worked out <strong>of</strong> the Japanese embassy, and he wanted tobuy weapons. I was told to show him around, but not to sell tohim, since the Taiwanese would replicate in two days anythingthey bought, and end up competing with Israel on the market. Itook him to the Sultan factory in the Galil, where mortars andmortar shells were made. He was impressed, but themanufacturer told me he couldn't sell him anything, anyway: first,because he was from Taiwan, and second, because everything hehad was pre-ordered. I told him I had no idea we were training sohard with mortars. He said, "We aren't, but the Iranians are sureusing a lot <strong>of</strong> them." That was keeping the company in business.At one point they made arrangements to bring in a whole group <strong>of</strong>Taiwanese for training. It was a compromise <strong>of</strong> sorts. They hadasked the Mossad to give them combatants in China, but theywouldn't; instead, they trained a unit similar to the neviot, capable<strong>of</strong> gathering information from inanimate objects.At this time, the department also had a series <strong>of</strong> Africans comingand going and being <strong>of</strong>fered various services. I stayed with thedepartment two months longer than I was supposed to, at Amy'sspecific request — both a compliment and a useful addition to mypersonnel record.They used to tell the story <strong>of</strong> the "kerplunk machine" to illustratesome <strong>of</strong> the weird and useless things the Africans would spendtheir money on. Someone asked an African

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