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By Way of Deception

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280 BY WAY OF DECEPTIONmeet with PLO representative to UN." The cable was marked,"Urgent. Tiger. Black," which meant it was only for the eyes <strong>of</strong> theprime minister and a few <strong>of</strong> his top <strong>of</strong>ficials — probably no morethan five people altogether.It was handed in code to the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> the head <strong>of</strong> the Mossad,Yitzhak H<strong>of</strong>i. H<strong>of</strong>i personally took the decoded message to Begin.The senior Israelis were horrified to read that Young was going tomeet Terzi. The message also gave the information source asrecordings from Bishara's private line in his UN <strong>of</strong>fice, revealingthat Young had been invited to his house and had accepted.The question then was whether to prevent the meeting or let ithappen. The decision to let it happen would prove that Israeli fearswere well founded, that there was a shift in the U.S. attitudetoward Israel. This would help prove to the country's Americanfriends in high places that such a danger existed from thisparticular administration, thereby creating a pro-Israel change. Itwould show the whole process was jeopardizing Israeli security.In addition, it would help get rid <strong>of</strong> Young who was seen as toomuch <strong>of</strong> a threat because <strong>of</strong> his open-minded approach andpositive attitude toward the PLO. He didn't fit Israel's needs.On July 26, Young, along with his six-year-old son, Andrew,walked into Bishara's Beekman Place town house. With the Almicrophones picking up every word, Young was greeted byBishara and the Syrian ambassador. Five minutes later, Terziarrived, and while the boy played alone for 15 minutes or so, thethree diplomats talked and seemed to agree that the SecurityCouncil meeting should be postponed from July 27 to August 23.(It was postponed.)Right after that, Young and his son left. Within an hour, acomplete transcript <strong>of</strong> the meeting was taken by Al katsa andstation head, Ury Dinure, aboard an El Al flight from New York toTel Aviv. He was met at the airport by Yitzhak H<strong>of</strong>i, in response tothe cable that had preceded him: "The spider swallowed the fly."The two men then took the transcript directly to Begin. H<strong>of</strong>i read iton the way there.Dinure was in Israel for just six hours before returning

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