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continued—his patented sly fox smile spreading across his face—and delivered the goods.
    “We clogged the main sewage line linking the houses on our side of the street, flooding the street with raw sewage. Two of my men who were native Farsi speakers dressed in City workmen’s uniforms and came with a “borrowed” City truck to pump the line. They entered three houses, including Tango’s, purportedly to see where the backup came from. The VEVAK agents saw what was happening, but didn’t dare leave their car and dip their feet in the filth. The stench was awful,” Benny chuckled.
              “Once inside his house, they gave Tango oral instructions on how to contact us. Tango had insisted earlier that he wanted ten members of his family to leave Iran first. My men gave him enough money to pay for his and his family’s separate foreign trips and bribe payments en route, if that might become necessary.  Under our instructions, he had earlier filed an application for a permit to exit Iran and go to Syria to visit the Shia shrine of the tomb of Sitt az Zaynab, a daughter of the Prophet Muhammad. It’s located in Al Ghutah outside Damascus. The shrine’s become a major pilgrimage destination for many Shiite Iranians. So the request shouldn't have raised any suspicion in Shiite Iran. But with Tango it was different. He was already under suspicion.”
    “If he was already out of the military and government service, why did he need a permit?” I asked.
    “Because it hadn’t been five years since he’d left his office, a must requirement under their rules. So he received a limited time and a limited destination passport, valid for 30 days’ travel to Syria only. Obviously, we had no plans to extricate him through Syria. That was just a small maneuver to demonstrate to anyone watching him, VEVAK in particular; that Tango was above suspicion. He'd go to Syria, do the religious tour, and return to Iran. There were no contacts planned during his Syrian visit, as most probably VEVAK would have been tailing him. You can call the scheme ‘confidence building tactics’,” said Benny with his signature smile.
    I knew Benny well. What he was telling me was just the tip of the iceberg, but I made no effort to press him on that. I knew that I wouldn't get anything more.
    “What happened at the Armenian border?” I had to know the details.
    “We had a problem.” Eric added but stopped and looked at Benny, who nodded and then said somberly, “After Tango met Benny’s combatants to discuss the defection procedures, two men came over to his house in Tehran. They made believe that they were also Mossad combatants. We know now that they were not ours, but most probably Iranian VEVAK agents. They apparently knew of Tango’s intended defection and spun a web to frustrate his plan, and at the same time embarrass the Mossad and the CIA by exposing their, or our, incompetence.”
    “And?” I asked, when he stopped all of sudden, like a good drama director would.
    “And the VEVAK agents, posing as Mossad combatants, told Tango that there’d been a change of plans and that he’d have to wait in Tehran before he could leave Iran through Iran’s northern border with Armenia.”
    “How do you know all that?” I asked.
    Benny smiled, “I had a surveillance team just behind Tango at all times. First, to make sure he wasn’t double-crossing us, and also to protect him. And finally,” his sly smile broadened, “The fake City employees had installed three listening devices in his house before they left.”
    I chuckled. “Low output devices?” I asked matter of factly, thinking back to our Mossad Academy training days. Benny and I used to break into apartments to install such devices. Once, we’d broken into the wrong apartment, only to surprise a couple making love. We barely escaped.
    “Yeah, very low output,” Benny confirmed with a smile. “We’d rented a nearby house. There we picked up the
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