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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 69easily explained for security reasons — then back to the same,quite small area where some construction actually had beencarried out for just this purpose.Later, when I was working in Yaar's department at Mossadheadquarters, I was assigned to escort Jayawardene's daughterin-law— a woman named Penny — on a secret visit to Israel. Sheknew me as "Simon."We took her wherever she wanted to go. We were talking in generalterms, but she insisted on telling me about the project and howmoney for it was financing equipment for the army. She wascomplaining that they weren't really getting on with it. Ironically,the project had been invented to get money from the World Bankto pay for those weapons.At that time, Israel had no diplomatic relations with Sri Lanka. Infact, they were supposedly embargoing us. But she was telling meabout all these secret political meetings going on. The funny thingwas that when news stories were leaked about the meetings, theyclaimed Israel had 150 katsas working in Sri Lanka. We didn'thave that many katsas in the entire world. In fact, at that timethere was only Amy and his helper, both on a short visit.Another new world was revealed to me and the others with alecture at Mossad headquarters on PAHA, the department <strong>of</strong>Paylut Hablanit Oyenet, or "hostile sabotage activities" —specifically, the PLO. The department is also sometimes calledPAHA Abroad. Its workers are essentially clerks, and theirs is one<strong>of</strong> the best research departments in the whole organization, itsanalysis mainly operational.It was a shock for us. They brought us into a sixth-floor room, satus down and told us this was where they gathered dailyinformation on movements <strong>of</strong> the PLO and other terroristorganizations. The instructor opened his huge folding wall, about100 feet across, and there was a massive map <strong>of</strong> the world —excluding the North Pole and Antarctica — with a series <strong>of</strong>computer consoles underneath. The wall was divided into tinysquares that lit up. If you punched "Arafat" on the computerkeyboard, for example, his known location would light up on themap. If you'd asked for "Arafat, three days," it would have lit upeverywhere he'd been over the

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