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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 227explain the situation. That very day, Admony caught a flight toSantiago to meet the Chilean general.* * *"I want you to help me build a personal security force," Contrerastold him."We're already doing that," said Admony. "And your men are doingextremely well.""No, no. You don't understand. I want a force that can help meeliminate our enemies, wherever they are. Like you do with thePLO. Not all our enemies are in Chile. We want to be able to hitpeople who are a direct threat to us. There are terrorist groups outthere threatening us, just as groups are threatening you. We wantto be able to eliminate them."Now, we know you have two ways <strong>of</strong> doing this. You can agreethat when a problem arises, your people will do the job. We know,for example, that you were asked by Taiwan to perform thisservice and that you refused."We prefer to use our own men — that you train a group <strong>of</strong> ourmen in how to deal with terrorist threats from abroad. You dothat, and the missile is yours."This new wrinkle came as a shocker to both Admony and Amir,and given the nature <strong>of</strong> the request, Admony told Contreras he'dhave to get permission from his own superiors before committinghimself.To do that, Admony returned to Tel Aviv for a top-level meeting inMossad headquarters. The Mossad was angry that Contreras hadadded an unexpected rider to the deal. They decided a politicaldecision, not a security decision, was required: that thegovernment would have to rule on whether to give Contreras whathe wanted or drop the whole project.Now, the government was hardly anxious to become involved inthis sort <strong>of</strong> deal, either, so that its decision was the kind thatmeans: "We don't want to know <strong>of</strong> such things."A private person would have to be hired to complete the deal.Chosen for the job was the head <strong>of</strong> a major Israeli insurancecompany, Mike Harari, the recently retired Mossad

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