profession?
A:I'm a student. No don't please and a spy yes rm a spy don't touch the
button please oh god oh god-
How do you make contact?
A: Coded cables.
Q:Have a cigarette. Here ... oh, you don't seem to be able to hold it
between your lips-let me help ... there.
A: Thank you.
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Q: Just try to be calm. Remember, as
long as you're telling
the truth, there will be no pain.
(pause)
Are you feeling better?
A: Yes.
Q: So am 1. Now, then, tell me about
Professor Schulz. Why
were you following him?
A: I was ordered to. (TRuE)
Q: By Tel Aviv?
A: Yes. (TRuE)
Q: Who in Tel Aviv?
A: I don't know. (READING iNDETERmiNATE)
Q: But you can guess.
A: Bosch. (READING INDETERmiNATE)
Q: Or Krantz?
A: Perhaps. (TRuE)
Q: Krantz is a good man. Dependable.
How's his wife?
A: Very well, 1-(scream)
Q: His wife died in 1958. Why do you
make me hurt you?
What did Schulz do?
A: Went sightseeing for two days, then
disappeared into the
desert in a gray Mercedes.
Q: And you burglarized his apartment
A: Yes. (TRuE)
Q: What did you learn?
A: He is a scientist. (TRUE)
Q: Anything else?
A: American. (TRuE) That's all. (TRu*E)
Q: Who was your instructor in training?
A: Ertl. (READING INDETERMINATE)
Q: That wasn't his real name, though.
A: I don't know. (FALSE) Nol Not the
button let me think it
was just a minute I think somebody said his real name
was Manner. (TituR)
Q: Oh, Manner. Shame. He's the
old-fashioned type. He still
believes you can train agents to resist interrogation. It's
his fault you7re suffering so much, you know. What about
your colleagues? Who trained with you?
A: I never knew their real names.
(FALSE)
Q - Didn't you?
A: (scream)
Q: Real names.
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A: Not all of them-
Q: Tell me the ones you did know. A: (no reply)
(scream)
The prisoner fainted. (pause)
Q: What is your name?
A: Uh... Towfik. (scream)
Q: What did you have for breakfast? A: Don't know.
Q: What is twenty minus seven? A: Twenty-seven.
Q: What did you tell Krantz about Professor
Schulz?
A: Sightseeing ... Western Desert ... surveillance aborted.. . Q: Who did
you train with?
A: (no reply)
Q: Who did you train with? A: (scream)
Q: Who did you train with?
A:Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death- '
Q: Who did you train with? A: (scream)
The prisoner died.
When Kawash asked for a meeting, Pierre Borg went. There was no
discussion about times and places: Kawash sent a message giving the
rendezvous, and Borg made sure to be there. Kawash was the best double
agent Borg had ever had, and that was that.
The head of the Mossad stood at one end of the northbound Bakerloo Line
platform in Oxford Circus subway station, reading an advertisement for
a course of lectures in Theosophy, waiting for Kawash. He had no idea why
the Arab had chosen London for this meeting; no idea what he told his
masters be was doing in the citv-, no idea, even, why Kawash was a
traitor. But this man had helped the Israelis win two wars and avoid a
third, and Borg needed him.
Borg glanced along the platform, looking for a high brown bead with a
large, thin nose. He had an idea he knew what Kawash wanted to talk
about. He hoped his idea was right.
Borg was very worried about the Schulz affair. It had
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started out as a piece of routine surveillance, juit the right kind of
assignment for his newest, rawest agent in Cairo: a high-powered American
physicist on vacation in Europe decides to take a trip to Egypt. - The first
warning sign came when Towilk lost Schulz. At that point Borg had stepped up
activity on the project. A freelance journalist in Milan who occasionally
made Inquiries for German Intelligence had established that Schules air
ticket to Cairo had been paid for by the wife of an Egyptian diplomat in
Rome. Then the CIA had routinely passed to the Mossad a set of satellite
photographs of the area around Qattara which seemed to show signs of
construction