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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 44He took me down a gravel road to a wadi (a stream that's dryexcept during periods <strong>of</strong> rainfall). There was just a trickle <strong>of</strong> waterin it, and concrete piping about two and a half feet in diameterthat ran under the road."There," he said, pointing to the pipe. "That's a good place to hide.There are some old newspapers there that you can pile up in front<strong>of</strong> you."This was a real test for me. I'm claustrophobic and they knew itfrom all the psychological testing. And I hate vermin: cockroaches,worms, rats. I don't even like to swim in a lake because <strong>of</strong> all thatgooey stuff on the bottom. When I looked down the pipe I couldn'tsee out the other end. It was the longest three hours <strong>of</strong> my life.And <strong>of</strong> course, nobody came. There wasn't any meeting. I kepttrying not to fall asleep. I kept reminding myself where I was andthat kept me awake.Finally, the instructor returned. "I want a full report on themeeting," he said."There was nobody here," I replied."Are you sure?""Yes.""Maybe you fell asleep.""No, I didn't.""Well, I passed by here," the instructor said."You must have passed by somewhere else. Nobody came byhere."On the way back, I was told not to talk about the incident.The following evening, our whole group was told to dress casually.We would be taken to Tel Aviv and each given a specific building towatch. We were to take notes on everything we saw in thissurveillance exercise. And we also had to create a cover story toexplain what we were doing.At about 8 p.m., I was driven into town by two men in a small car,one <strong>of</strong> them Shai Kauly, a veteran katsa with a long track record<strong>of</strong> achievement to his name.* I was dropped just one block <strong>of</strong>fDizing<strong>of</strong>f Street, Tel Aviv's main street, told to watch a five-storybuilding and record everyone who went in: what time they arrived,what time they left, a descriptionSee Chapter 9: STRELLA

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