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206 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONarranged with volunteers to get themselves recruited by theMossad through two different embassies. Their job was to feed theIsraelis a series <strong>of</strong> dates and locations that would map hismovements. Not his real movements, <strong>of</strong> course, but the ones hewanted them to believe. This eventually led the Mossad to a littletown in Norway called Lillehammer, about 95 miles north <strong>of</strong> Oslo,where a waiter in a restaurant bore an uncanny — and for him,fatal resemblance to the Red Prince.Metsada head Mike Harari was in charge <strong>of</strong> the operation to getSalameh. Salameh made sure that, when the unsuspecting waiterwas being watched by the Mossad, some <strong>of</strong> his men walked overand talked to him, which would confirm he was who the Mossadthought he was. Though he wasn't, on July 21, 1973, the Mossadkilled the innocent waiter. Three people went to jail. One <strong>of</strong> them,David Arbel,* talked a lot, and the "Lillehammer affair" becameperhaps the biggest scandal and embarrassment in Mossadhistory.Back in Paris, Carlos was taking over. The European intelligencecommunity knew nothing about him. He didn't speak Arabic; infact, he didn't even like Arabs. (Carlos said <strong>of</strong> the Palestinians, "Ifthese guys are half as good as they say, how come the Israelis arestill sitting in Palestine?") But Moukharbel, recently recruited as aMossad agent by Oren Riff, remained as liaison man for Carlos.In the process <strong>of</strong> consolidating the Paris operation, Carlos gainedcontrol <strong>of</strong> the stockpile <strong>of</strong> Black September weaponry throughoutEurope. Among other things, he inherited the two "missing" Strellamissiles that had been part <strong>of</strong> the aborted assassination attempton Golda MeinMoukharbel, in addition to acting as liaison with Black September,was doing the same job for two other Palestinian groups, thePopular Front (PFLP) and the Palestinian Youth Organization. Thevolume <strong>of</strong> information coming from him to the Mossad wasastonishing, and the Mossad, after chewing it up and keepingwhat it wanted for itself, began feeding Eu-* See Chapter 7: HAIRPIECE; Chapter 15: OPERATION MOSES

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