ET – phone your nearest Mossad agent

December 14, 2005 - 9:20 AM by David Brinn

There’s been a ton of interest and comment over the new Steven Spielberg movie ‘Munich’, with a renewed focus on the Israeli secret service.

I think most Israelis don’t have any overt contact with the shrouded world of our Mossad and Shabak agents. I know I haven’t, that is unless they’ve been doing a real good job tracing me, and I haven’t noticed.

That’s why my taxi ride this week was so memorable. I was leaving a meeting in a toney residential section of Jerusalem, and walked out the side street I was on to grab a cab back to the center of town.

“Do you mind if I just pick up an envelope at a house back on the side street,” the cabbie asked as I got in. “It’s waiting for me at the entrance.”

No problem, I told him. He drove down the narrow tree-lined street until near the end and entered a parking lot of a nondescript apartment building. The only odd thing about it was that the doorway looked like the entrance to an office or some kind of agency. But there was no sign outside.

“What kind of office is that,” I asked as the cabbie got back in the car after picking up the envelope. He just smiled and mumbled something about it being a “very secure” operation.

The lightbulb went off in my head. “Ah, so what you’re saying is, those who need to know what this place is know.”

“Exactly,” he said, holding the envelope close to his side. Unfortunately, I didn’t get a chance to see if the address of the recipient was named Spielberg.

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