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By Way of Deception

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160 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONNo matter, Itsik listened, then wrote in his book: "A point welltaken."I turned to Kauly. "Shai —""Look," Kauly replied, "don't involve me in this."* * *The next day, I asked to start my second assignment right away. Itwould give me the opportunity to be outside the safe house forseveral days. I was already sick <strong>of</strong> being in the same place asJerry.What I had to do was make contact with a British diplomat whowas in charge <strong>of</strong> maintaining all our military graveyards (mainlyfrom World War I) in Israel. He had an <strong>of</strong>fice in Ramlah, just east<strong>of</strong> Tel Aviv, site <strong>of</strong> a large cemetery, and an <strong>of</strong>fice in the Britishembassy in Tel Aviv. The man had been spotted several times bythe Shaback stopping his car on the highway, taking pictures <strong>of</strong>military installations, then driving <strong>of</strong>f. We suspected he was eitherin intelligence himself or working for someone else. As a result, theShaback had sent in a request to have him checked out.My first order <strong>of</strong> business was to concoct a reason to meet thisman. Why not a movie again? After booking a room at theCarleton Hotel, just across from the Marina in Tel Aviv's HayarkonStreet, I went to a monument near the spot where British generalAllenby's troops had crossed the Yarkon River during World War I,ending four centuries <strong>of</strong> Ottoman rule over the Holy Land. Withthe dates <strong>of</strong> the battles in mind, and the names <strong>of</strong> the brigadesthat had fought, I then headed for another large British cemeteryoutside Haifa, searching tombstones until I found one with thename <strong>of</strong> a soldier (McPhee) who had fought and died at that time.Posing as a Canadian from Toronto, complete with business cards,I said that I would be doing a movie about a family that hadmoved to Canada from London, but had one member who'd diedin the battle to free the Holy Land. First I called the <strong>of</strong>fice inRamlah and told the story to a Christian Arab woman there. Shegave me the target's phone number at the embassy, so I calledhim, told him the story, gave him McPhee's name (saying I didn'tknow where he was buried),

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