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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 6nience" — that is, find the easiest target. And quickly. Which ishow they chanced upon Butrus Eben Halim. It would prove to bea lucky strike, but at the time, he was chosen because he was theonly Iraqi scientist who had given a home address. That meant theothers were either more security- minded, or lived at militaryquarters near the plant. Halim was also married — only half <strong>of</strong>them were — but had no children. For a 42-year-old Iraqi to haveno children was unusual, not the mark <strong>of</strong> a normal, happymarriage.Now that they had their target, the next problem was how to"recruit" him, particularly since word from Tel Aviv was that thiswas considered an ain efes, or "no miss" a strong term in Hebrew.To complete this task, two teams were called in. The first, yarid, ateam in charge <strong>of</strong> European security, would figure out Halim'sschedule and that <strong>of</strong> his wife, Samira, see if he was under Iraqi orFrench surveillance, and arrange for a nearby apartment througha "real estate" sayan (one <strong>of</strong> the Paris sayanim in real estate andtrusted to find an apartment in the requested neighborhood, noquestions asked).The second, neviot, was the team that would do any necessarybreak-ins, casing the target's apartment and installing listeningdevices — a "wood" if it had to be fitted into a table or baseboard,for example; a "glass" if it involved a telephone.The yarid branch <strong>of</strong> the security department consists <strong>of</strong> threeteams <strong>of</strong> seven to nine people each, with two teams workingabroad and one backup in Israel. Calling in one <strong>of</strong> the teams foran operation usually involves considerable haggling, sinceeveryone regards their particular operation as vital.The neviot branch also consists <strong>of</strong> three teams <strong>of</strong> experts trainedin the art <strong>of</strong> obtaining information from still objects, which meansbreaking in, or photographing such things as documents, enteringand leaving rooms and buildings to install surveillance equipmentwithout leaving a trace or coming into contact with anyone.Among their collection <strong>of</strong> implements, these teams have masterkeys for most <strong>of</strong> the

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