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By Way of Deception

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158 BY WAY OF DECEPTION* * *The first order <strong>of</strong> business the next day, when the final three-weekexercise began in mid-October 1985, was for the three teams <strong>of</strong>five each to settle into our apartments. One team was in Haifa,another in Jerusalem, and mine was on the third floor <strong>of</strong> abuilding near the Mugraby movie theater near Allenby and BenYehuda streets, in the south- center <strong>of</strong> Tel Aviv — a slightly grottysection where the hookers hang out.Besides Jerry, my team consisted <strong>of</strong> Arik, Oded L., and Michel.After we had built our slick in a cupboard and prepared all theother necessary security work for our safe house/station, we weregiven passports, taken to the airport, and told to go throughcustoms and security as if we were just arriving in Israel. I had aCanadian passport.After that, I took a cab from the airport to the apartment, scoutedthe area, learned where the public telephones were, and so on,arriving in plenty <strong>of</strong> time for the 1 p.m. briefing. (From time totime, we were allowed to go home from this assignment, but it wason a rotation system because someone always had to be at theapartment at night.) When I got back to the apartment, it was as ifnothing had happened between Jerry and me, except now I knewthat I could neither "touch" him nor protect myself from him. Hishorse was too powerful.The first field exercise was to go to the Grand Beach Hotel, at thecorner <strong>of</strong> Dizeng<strong>of</strong>f Street and Ben-Gurion Avenue, across thestreet from what used to be the Sheraton. The old Sheraton washanded over to the Americans who were building airfields in theNegev as part <strong>of</strong> the Camp David peace deal when Israel gave upairfields in the Sinai. I rented a room at the Grand Beach byphone, while Jerry was supposed to meet a contact in the lobby <strong>of</strong>that hotel. The contact had documents in an attaché case in hiscar trunk, and the idea was to get the case, take pictures <strong>of</strong> thedocuments, and return it to the trunk with no one noticing.We already had the car key, and the vehicle was supposed to havebeen parked six stalls down from the former Shera-

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