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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 5would be pulling out, allowing him to take that parking spot. Thenhe was simply told to go <strong>of</strong>f to his meeting, leaving the personnelfile in the trunk.Because employees in sensitive industries are subjected torandom security checks, Marcel was tailed by the Mossad, withouthis knowledge, on the way to his rendezvous. After again makingsure there was no surveillance, a two-man Mossad squad took thefile from the trunk and walked into the café. While one manordered, the other walked into the washroom. There he produceda camera with an attached set <strong>of</strong> four small, aluminum fold-backlegs, called a "clamper." This device saves setup time, since it isalready in focus and uses special snap-on cartridgesmanufactured by the Mossad photography department that takeup to 500 exposures on a single roll <strong>of</strong> film. Once the legs areshoved down, the photographer can slide the documents quicklyin and out underneath it, using a rubber attachment held betweenhis teeth to click the shutter each time. After photographing thethree pages in this way, the men put the file back in Marcel'strunk and left.The names were immediately sent by computer to the Paris deskin Tel Aviv, using the standard Mossad double coding system.Each phonetic sound has a number. If the name is Abdul, forexample, then "Ab" might be assigned number seven and "dul" 21.To further complicate matters, each number has a regular code —a letter or another number — and this "sleeve" coding is changedonce a week. Even then, each message tells only half the story, sothat one would contain the code <strong>of</strong> the code for "Ab," while anotherthe code <strong>of</strong> the code for "dul." Even if this transmission wasintercepted, it would mean nothing to the person trying to decodeit. In this way, the entire personnel list was sent to headquartersin two separate computer transmissions.As soon as the names and positions were decoded in Tel Aviv, theywere sent to the Mossad research department and to AMAN, butagain, because the Iraqi personnel at Sarcelles were scientists, notpreviously regarded as threatening, the Mossad had little on fileabout them.Word came back from the Tsomet chief to "hit it at conve-

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