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234 BY WAY OF DECEPTION<strong>of</strong> sophisticated electronic equipment supplied by the Americans.Internally, it is responsible for military and political research,"positive" gathering within Danish borders (information fromDanish citizens about what they have seen), as opposed to"negative," which would be getting information from outside theborders. It also handles international liaison and gives nationalassessments to the government. At that time, it was planning toset up a unit to handle Middle East concerns (beginning with oneman working on it one day each week).The service is renowned for its sharp photographs <strong>of</strong> Soviet air,ground, and sea activities. It was the first intelligence service tosupply Israel with pictures <strong>of</strong> the Soviet SSC-3 system (or surfaceto-surfacemissiles). Purple B had been headed by Mogens Tellingsince 1976. He had visited Israel in 1980. lb Bangsbore was head<strong>of</strong> the human section, slated to retire in 1986. The Mossad hadgood sources within the DDIS and also within the Danish DefenseResearch Establishment (DDRE). Danish intelligence also workedmore closely with Sweden (code-named "Burgundy") than it didwith its NATO partner, Norway. On occasion, Purple B met with"carousel," the code name for British intelligence, working withthem on a case-by-case basis and cooperating in severaloperations against Russian intelligence.Ami would retrieve all this information and read it before callingup a reference form, which entails feeding available informationinto the computer: a name, a number, whatever he had, for asearch <strong>of</strong> the computer's memory bank. If the person in questionwas Palestinian, and no information appeared on the screen, Amiwould transfer the form to the Mossad's Palestinian desk. Theymight want to check further or simply store the name in theMossad computer. All Mossad departments are connected to onegiant computer in Tel Aviv headquarters. Each night, a hard diskcopy <strong>of</strong> the entire day's information is taken out and put in a safeplace.Ami was just four names from the end <strong>of</strong> the file he was checkingwhen Magid's name popped up. The family name rang a bell. Amihad been chatting with a friend in the re-

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