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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 271ping center part way up a hill on International Drive. There is littleelse around there except the Jordanian embassy farther up thehill, overlooking the Israeli embassy — hardly a good setting forcarrying out clandestine activities.Incidentally, despite rumors to the contrary, the Mossad does nothave a station in the Soviet Union. About 99.99 percent <strong>of</strong>information it gathers on the Eastern Bloc comes through "positiveinterrogation," which means simply interviewing Jews emigratingfrom the Soviet Bloc and analyzing and processing thatinformation. Quite a good picture <strong>of</strong> what's going on in the USSRcan be created and put on the face <strong>of</strong> an intelligence agencyactively gathering data there. But it has been too dangerous towork there. The only activity was to help get people out — creatingescape routes, that sort <strong>of</strong> thing. A separate organization underthe auspices <strong>of</strong> the Mossad does that; it's called nativ, whichmeans "pathway" or "passage" in Hebrew. The Eastern Blocinformation has a good exchange value. That, coupled with datagathered in other countries — for example, the radar informationfrom the Danes — helps in presenting a picture <strong>of</strong> knowledge.The Americans don't realize how much information is given to usthrough NATO, information that can be manipulated to present amuch more vivid picture. In the pre- Gorbachev era, <strong>of</strong> course, theSoviet news media sources weren't that great, but you couldalways get data by rumor and word <strong>of</strong> mouth. Even militarymovements. Somebody might complain that his cousin was movedsomewhere and hadn't been heard from. Even if only 10 people aday were arriving in Israel from the Soviet Bloc, you could still getan extraordinary amount <strong>of</strong> information from that.Al's stations, while outside the embassy, still operate like stationsfor the most part. They communicate directly to Tel Avivheadquarters either by telephone, telex, or computer modem. Theydo not use burst communications systems, because even if theAmericans couldn't break down the messages, they would knowthere was clandestine activity in the neighborhood, something theMossad wants to avoid. Distance is also a factor.

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