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222 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONrica, and in several other African countries, including formerUgandan dictator Idi Amin's secret police. Israel also trained thesecret police <strong>of</strong> recently deposed Panamanian strongman ManuelNoriega.* In fact, Noriega, who trained personally in Israel, alwayswore the Israeli paratrooper wings on the right side <strong>of</strong> his militaryuniform (they are normally worn on the left). And just to show hownondiscriminatory the Mossad is, it trained both sides in thebloody ongoing civil unrest in Sri Lanka: the Tamils and theSinhalese, as well as the Indians who were sent in to restore order.Because <strong>of</strong> the bad international reputation <strong>of</strong> Chile's DINA,Pinochet was looking to revamp the service, and he assigned itschief, General Manuel Contreras, to look after the details.Because Contreras had already approached Israel with thisrequest, the then liaison chief, Nahum Admony, asked his MALATbranch in the liaison department to follow up on the navy request.MALAT, which covered Latin America, was a small branch, withjust three <strong>of</strong>ficers and their chief. Two <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>ficers spent timetraveling around South America, mainly trying to initiate businessties with Israel. One <strong>of</strong> them, a man named Amir, was in Bolivia atthe time, looking at a factory built by Israeli industrialist SaulEisenberg,** a man so powerful the Israeli government had passeda special law making him exempt from many high taxes so that hewould bring his headquarters to Israel. Eisenberg specialized inwhat are called turnkey operations — building factories, thenhanding the keys <strong>of</strong> a completely finished project to its owners.In 1976, Eisenberg was the central figure in a political scandaland police investigation in Canada after the federal auditorgeneral'sreport questioned the payment <strong>of</strong> at least $20 million tohim and his various companies for their role as agent for AtomicEnergy <strong>of</strong> Canada Limited (AECL) in trying to sell the CANDUnuclear reactor to Argentina andSee Chapter 5: ROOKIES** See Chapter 6: THE BELGIAN TABLE

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