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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 233sion. He, too, had taken part in the last seminar on terrorism heldin Israel.(In fact, the Mossad holds a series <strong>of</strong> such seminars, inviting oneintelligence service at a time, and consequently generatingvaluable contacts while perpetuating the notion that noorganization deals with terrorism better than they do.)Another document on Ami's computer screen showed the fullname <strong>of</strong> Denmark's overall intelligence service: PolitietsEfterretingsjtneste Politistatonen (PEP). It listed a series <strong>of</strong>departments.Telephone tapping comes under Department S: in an August 25,1982, document, the Danes had told Hombre they were planninga new computer system and could afford to give the Mossad 60"listenings" (60 locations where they actually installed listeningdevices for the Mossad). They had also installed a number <strong>of</strong>listening devices in public telephones "at our (Mossad) suggestionin areas known to be sensitive to subversive activities."The head <strong>of</strong> service had to hold the rank <strong>of</strong> what was calleddetective inspector a district-attorney level in Israel. The Mossadreport went on to complain that their following unit was <strong>of</strong> poorquality: "Their people are easy to detect. They do not blend in well,probably due to high rotation <strong>of</strong> personnel in that unit . . . abouttwo years and they go to different jobs."The police were responsible for recruiting people for the service,but that was difficult to do since there was little room forpromotion. On July 25, 1982, Hombre asked about a NorthKorean secret operation in Denmark, but was told it was beingdone for the Americans, so "don't ask again."Still searching his computer for more information, Ami pulled up asheet called "Purple B," which detailed the Danish DefenseIntelligence Service (DDIS), the intelligence arm <strong>of</strong> the Danishmilitary under direct orders from the head <strong>of</strong> the army and thedefense minister. The service is structured into four units:management, listening, research, and gathering.For NATO, its job is covering Poland and East Germany and themovement <strong>of</strong> Soviet ships in the Baltic, with the help

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