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By Way of Deception

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252 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONPLO's representative in Belgium, asking him to use hisconnections there with the Israeli foreign <strong>of</strong>fice to get negotiationsunder way and avoid more bloodshed. The Mossad was veryanxious about this. The idea was that if they could get Israelinvolved in Lebanon to help the Christians, then they could wipeout the Palestinians there. But if the Mossacl started talking, theywouldn't get that chance. There was a real undercurrent betweenthem and the foreign <strong>of</strong>fice. The foreign <strong>of</strong>fice didn't know this, butthe Institute was trying to get the war started, at the same timethat they were busy trying to avoid it. The Palestinians were tryingto find a lead to the Israeli diplomats, and the Mossad was tryingto cut it <strong>of</strong>f.At the same time, the Mossad had learned that Arafat would try tomake use <strong>of</strong> Francois Ganud, then a 65-year-old Geneva bankerand financial supporter <strong>of</strong> Carlos's. Arafat's idea, passed along tothe Mossad by Kasim, was to get the money from Ganud to buyweapons in Germany with the help <strong>of</strong> a group called the BlackBloc, an <strong>of</strong>fshoot <strong>of</strong> the Red Army Faction (RAF), who in Februaryhad received training in Lebanon from the German advisers sentby Honecker.The Mossad was not happy with U.S. envoy Philip Habib'sapparent progress in his peace mission, so their idea was toinvolve the CIA, telling them the PLO was preparing for war whilethey were talking about peace, in the hopes that this would kill theinitiative, or at the very least stall it. At the time, Begin wasrunning for re-election and had no knowledge <strong>of</strong> the Mossadplans. The military operation already had a name, "Cedars <strong>of</strong>Lebanon," and they had begun feeding information to CIA liaison.But on March- SO, with John Hinckley's attempted assassination<strong>of</strong> President Reagan, the CIA became distracted, and that part <strong>of</strong>the operation was put on hold.On April 10, Arafat was again meeting Honecker in East Berlin.The next day he was in Damascus at the fifteenth session <strong>of</strong> thePalestinian Council.On May 15, the Mossad contacted the German anti-terrorist unit,GSG-9 (Grenzschutzgruppe), which they wanted to bring into theoperation for future use.

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