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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 151beautiful agent to a yacht in the Mediterranean <strong>of</strong>f Rome. TheLondon Sunday Times had been preparing to publish his storyand the photos, but Vanunu was drugged, smuggled aboard anIsraeli ship, swiftly tried, and jailed.In fact, the kidnapping was a sloppy job. Vanunu wasn't exactly apro or a danger, yet because <strong>of</strong> the way the job was handled, thepublic knew about it. The operation got Vanunu back to Israel,but the Mossad couldn't have been very proud <strong>of</strong> it.From my personal observation <strong>of</strong> the Dimona plant, Vanunu'sdescription was very accurate. Not only that, his interpretationwas also accurate. He said they were building those bombs andthey'd use them if needed. That's true. It was no secret, either,within the Institute that we helped South Africa with its nuclearprogram. We supplied them with most <strong>of</strong> their military equipment.We trained their special units. We worked hand in hand with themfor years. These are two countries that regarded themselves asneeding the doomsday machine and were prepared to use it.While security at Dimona was extremely tight, it was also ringedwith Hawk and Chapparal surface-to-air missiles. The joke whenwe visited the Hawk sites was that the missiles were just rottingaway. They wouldn't have protected anything. Yet they were soldto Iran later. We laughed about that a lot.The junior katsas also learned about an internationalcommunications system, particularly the Mediterranean cablethat emerged at Palermo, Sicily, where it tied into satellitestransmitting most <strong>of</strong> the Arab communications. Israel was linkedinto that through Unit 8200 and got access to almost everythingthe Arabs sent.The other regular feature <strong>of</strong> our course was a "sociometric" paperwritten every couple <strong>of</strong> weeks, whereby each <strong>of</strong> us would listeveryone else in the course in order <strong>of</strong> preference in variouscategories: operations, trustworthiness, reliability, friendliness,cordiality, and so on. I didn't do badly in that, but it wasn't honest.You weren't supposed to know the results, but we did. If youdidn't like somebody, you naturally

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