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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 47there as the one cop filled out a report. Then a bus drove up. Theguy next to me finally pulled me out onto the street, where I felldown. He threw my pants and my shoes on top <strong>of</strong> me, and theytook <strong>of</strong>f, warning me not to be there if they came back again.There I was, lying on the street, with people getting <strong>of</strong>f the bus,and I had no pants on. But I had to grab those papers, and when Idid, it was like I'd climbed Mount Everest. What a feeling <strong>of</strong>accomplishment!Thirty minutes later, after I had dressed and resumed mysurveillance, I spotted the flashing headlights, went to the car, andwas driven back to the Country Club to write my report. Muchlater, I met the "policemen" again.They weren't policemen at all. It seems everybody met their"policemen" that night. It was part <strong>of</strong> the test.One <strong>of</strong> the students had been accosted by the policemen as hestood under a tree. Asked what he was doing, he'd said he waswatching owls. When the cop said he didn't see any owls, thestudent told him, "You guys scared them away." He, too, wastaken for a ride.One <strong>of</strong> the others was "arrested" at Kiker Hamdina, a well- knownsquare. We used to say it represented the state <strong>of</strong> Israel. It holdsthe circus in the summer and it's mud in the winter. Just likeIsrael. Half the year mud, the other half circus. This guy was anidiot. He told them he was on a special mission. Said he was beingrecruited by the Mossad and this was a test. Obviously, he failedit.Indeed, <strong>of</strong> the 10 who went through the whole <strong>of</strong> this first ordealwith me, the only one I ever saw again was one <strong>of</strong> the women. Shebecame a lifeguard at the Mossad pool on the weekends whenmembers' families were allowed in.After breakfast on the third day, we were taken back into Tel Aviv.My first task was to go into a restaurant, strike up a conversationwith a man who had been pointed out to me, and make anappointment to meet him that night. Watching the restaurant fora while before entering, I noticed the waiter dancing attendance onthe man, so I decided he must be the manager. When I sat downat the table next to him, I saw he was reading a movie magazine.

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