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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 261rut address to ship the arms to. The idea was just a shot in thedark; at that stage the Mossad did not expect the sting to reachthe stage <strong>of</strong> an actual shipment. But Stoler told Salem theshipment would need a cover <strong>of</strong> some sort because it had to gothrough Lebanese customs. In these affairs, such arrangementsare wise, simply to make a deal look "legitimate." As for Salem, hesaid he had a relative in Beirut in the raisin business who mightgive them a shipping address."Raisins from Germany?" said Stoler. "Isn't that like bringingstrudel from Senegal?"Not exactly. It seems there is some exporting <strong>of</strong> packaged raisinsand other dried fruits that come into Germany in large quantitiesand are then shipped out again at a better price than Greece andTurkey can <strong>of</strong>fer.So Stoler asked Salem to get him a "legitimate" raisin order. "Thatway, I can get things rolling," he added.The idea <strong>of</strong> this exchange was to get Salem to do as much <strong>of</strong> theplanning as possible so he would not realize he was being led.Next, Stoler said he had no ship available, but Salem told him thatwould be no problem because it would be a container shipment,meaning simply one extra container joining a shipment toLebanon.In the meantime, a Mossad liaison man passed on informationfrom Tsomet to another katsa planning to make contact with thesecond-in-command from the Black Bloc. He met the man, tellinghim his jailed colleague got a message delivered to him throughmutual contacts in jail. He said the plans had changed. Instead <strong>of</strong>selling the hashish, it would be exchanged for arms.The deadline was approaching. The Mossad had already orderedthe weapons and they knew Salem would have to get his moneythrough Abu Taan, since now he couldn't get it from the hashish.The Mossad was gaining control <strong>of</strong> that. Salem wouldn't have beenworried. He knew he could get the interim loan, and thought hecould pay it back once the hash was sold. In addition, the Mossadpromised the Black Bloc some missiles, and planned to deliversome dummies — the plastic, display-style that look exactly likereal missiles but won't fire because there's nothing inside them.

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