Bourne ultimatum: Mossad agents exchange 5,000 prisoners of war-wolfgang lotz (1)

After the end of the Third Middle East War, Israel began negotiations with Egypt on the exchange of prisoners, and Mel amit, then director of Mossad, requested that the Lotz couple be included in the exchange list.

Subsequently, the Israeli government indicated that it refused to release 5,000 Egyptian prisoners of war, including nine Egyptian generals, before Egypt released 65,438+00 Israeli detainees (including Lotz and Waltraud).

The Mossad agent who exchanged 5,000 prisoners of war was wolfgang lotz.

192 1 year, Lotz was born in Mannheim, Germany. His father Hans is a Christian and a drama director, and his mother Helenyi is a Jew and a professional actor. Because his father was not Jewish, he was not circumcised when he was a child.

Lotz spent his childhood in Germany. Due to the influence of family environment, he showed great acting talent since he was a child.

193 1 year, Lotz entered Munson Humanities Middle School in Berlin. Soon after, his parents divorced, and his mother moved to Palestine with Lotz to escape the persecution of Jews by Hitler's regime.

Here, Lotz entered an agricultural school in Bensimon. During his study, he became very interested in horses and learned all the knowledge about riding, raising horses, horses and horses, which was of great use to his later intelligence career.

With the sharp opposition between local Arabs and Jewish immigrants, Jews established their own secret military organization "Hagana".

1937, Lotz, who was only 16 years old, joined the organization and became the youngest soldier in Hagana. After the outbreak of World War II, Lotz joined the British army.

Being proficient in German, Hebrew, Arabic and English, Lotz was sent to Egypt to help judge Nazi prisoners of war. He spent the whole World War II in Egypt and North Africa and became an experienced soldier.

1948, the Israeli war of independence broke out, and Lotz took part in the fighting in Latron under the command of an army. This army is temporarily composed of some Jewish immigrants, lacking training and sophisticated weapons and equipment, and the battle is very difficult.

However, due to his good command, Roots finally repelled the Arab attack and became famous in the Israeli army from then on.

1956, the Suez canal war broke out, and Lotz, who had been promoted to major brigade commander, led the troops to participate in the battle against Egypt. After the battle, Roots left the army forever.

However, it was not long before Lotz was recruited as an agent by the Israeli "Amon" (military intelligence agency).

The reason why Rhodes can be seen by Amon lies in his life experience in Germany, as well as his strong body, fair skin and blond hair, which make it easy for him to dress up as a German.

In addition, he can drink, which is completely in line with people's general imagination of a German officer, but what is more important is his inner performance quality.

Lotz is good at chatting with people, and will soon get acquainted and become bosom friends. He is also suitable to play a generous and likable man. These qualities are very important to an agent.

Thus, wolfgang lotz became an agent of Amon and began his mysterious and exciting spy career.

In the following days, Lotz was sent to a spy agency for professional training. This kind of training is both fresh and exciting for him. He overcame all kinds of difficulties and soon mastered all kinds of skills possessed by an agent.

At that time, because of the tension between Israel and Egypt, Israel was going to send him to Egypt. So Lotz's training added another content, that is, he should be familiar with the complicated relations of Egyptian politics as soon as possible, understand the contradictions between various factions, and make clear some social etiquette of Arabs so as not to be self-defeating.

It didn't take long for Lotz to master all this, which laid a solid foundation for his successful espionage in Egypt. Now he is waiting for the opportunity to enter Egypt.

Not long after, an opportunity came-1954, the Egyptian government launched an "anti-Semitic" movement, and the Nasser government even invited many former German Nazis to work for its anti-Semitic movement.

The Israeli military intelligence agency thought it was an excellent opportunity to enter Egypt and decided to let Lotz enter Egypt as a German. Amon forged a half-truth and half-falsehood life resume for him:

192 1 Born in Mannheim, Germany, 1933 entered Munson Humanities Middle School in Berlin. After graduating from high school, he joined the African legion of German Marshal Rommel, known as the "desert fox", and served in the 1 15 division until the end of World War II.

After the war, he lived in Australia for 1 1 year, became a horse owner, amassed a lot of wealth, and became an expert in raising horses. Later, he returned to Germany because he missed his hometown.

According to this new resume, Lotz was first sent to Germany and declared his household registration in Berlin. Then he changed several residences in Germany and stayed there for more than a year.

In this more than a year, Lotz has given full play to his acting talent and constantly changed his career and identity. He first disguised himself as a Nazi officer who was dissatisfied with the current government, and later became a very rich German businessman.

During his stay in Berlin, Lotz joined a Berlin equestrian club and accidentally met a businessman named elias Gordon, who later paved the way for Lotz to enter Egypt smoothly.

Gordon, a German businessman, found that Lotz had deep attainments in raising horses and admired him, so he introduced him to a friend of his.

This friend is also a businessman who loves horses. They agreed to start a business on the Nile River in Egypt, where they are going to build an Arab thoroughbred horse breeding base and open an equestrian center.

In order to finalize the feasibility of the plan, two businessmen decided to pay for Lotz's short-term field trip to Egypt. This was the opportunity that Roots had been waiting for, so he agreed.

196165438+1At the beginning of October, Lotz embarked on a journey to Egypt as a German tourist and horse breeder.

After a short and pleasant trip, Lotz arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, and stayed in a high-class hotel.

After settling down, Lotz came to the knight club hosted by Egyptian cavalry officers as a horse riding enthusiast and horse breeding expert.

Lotz became a very popular person as soon as he entered the Knights Club.

The reason is simple: first of all, he is a horse rider and an expert in raising horses; Secondly, he is not only a foreigner, but also a German.

Here, Lotz showed his special talents in performance and communication, and soon got to know the honorary chairman of the club and the police chief of Alexandria, General Yusuf Ali Gulab, and soon became a frequent visitor to his home.

Later, General Yusuf introduced Lotz to other club officials, saying that he was the leading horse trainer and trainer in Germany.

In this way, it only took Lotz more than six months to meet a large number of local celebrities and successful people, because the equestrian club was originally a gathering place for nobles and celebrities, not to mention the knight club of the army, and he was also a friend of General Yusuf, the police chief. Lotz used this identity to gain the trust of those people.

With a good beginning, the next work will be logical. In those people's minds, Lotz is a former Nazi officer in Germany, with rich money and superb riding skills. He is not only generous at ordinary times, but also handsome and humorous, and soon blends into them and becomes a hot figure in the local upper class.

In order to better carry out activities, Lotz paid special attention to establishing friendship with Egyptian officers in cavalry units, often drinking with them, chatting with them in Hu Kan, and getting valuable information in this kind of eating, drinking and having fun.

After half a year, Lotz decided that there would be no problem lurking in Egypt like this, so he made an excuse to return to Europe, contacted the liaison officer lurking in Paris, France, reported his situation in Egypt to him, and talked about his activity plan.

After listening to Lotz's report, the liaison officer helped him analyze it. He thought Lotz's latent plan was feasible, so he gave him a large sum of activity funds and a micro transceiver, and gave him two official tasks: first, to determine the location of Egyptian fortifications and understand their military value; Second, monitor the aircraft and missile designers of Germany and Austria who are about to arrive in Egypt.

Since then, Lotz's spy career in Egypt has officially begun.

However, what the Military Intelligence Bureau didn't expect was that as a professional spy sent by Israeli intelligence agencies, Lotz's organization and discipline were really poor.

During his stay in France, Lotz met a German-American woman on the train, fell in love with her at first sight and immediately launched an offensive against her. The German-American woman named Waltraud is beautiful with blue eyes and blonde hair. She graduated from Swiss Tourism College and worked as a secretary in the manager's office of a hotel in Los Angeles. This time she went to Germany to visit her parents.

What Lotz didn't expect was that although she was handsome and rich, the beautiful blonde was unmoved and Lotz was at a loss.

However, Lotz, who was born in the military, did not give up, but attacked again with the stubbornness of not hitting the south wall and not looking back. Perhaps Lotz's sincerity finally touched Waltraud's heart. Before long, they fell in love, went out in pairs and began to talk about marriage.

When Amon's headquarters learned of this practice, Lotz felt headache and anger. What is even more unexpected is that Lotz not only insisted on marrying this American woman, but also revealed his spy identity and mission to her.

As a result, Lotz married his beloved girl Waltraud without the consent of Amon. When Amon's headquarters knew about it, he had no choice but to order Roots to return to Egypt immediately, but he could not take his wife with him.

Knowing that the headquarters didn't agree, Lotz even threatened to go back to Cairo without his wife. Meir amit, then director of Amun, finally agreed to his request.

Amit thinks that although Lotz has all kinds of shortcomings, he does make people feel uncomfortable sometimes. For example, his reckless words and deeds will make people feel unhappy, and for example, he likes to drink and drinks too much every time. Besides, when he gave gifts to those Egyptian friends, he was too extravagant. ...

However, for a spy, Lotz is a rare talent, especially in such a short time, he can not only skillfully change his identity, but also successfully gain the recognition and trust of Egypt, which proves that he is an excellent agent talent.

In this way, Lotz got amit's understanding and returned to Egypt with his new wife. Unexpectedly, Roots' wife, Waltraud, not only did not object, but also went all out to support his work, and later became his right-hand man.

After the husband and wife returned to Egypt, Lotz began to give his wife some necessary training and patiently explained to her the rules of various secret jobs.

Under the guidance of Root, Walter Law quickly adapted to this special life and became Root's right-hand man. Both husband and wife live in Cairo and have a happy family, which makes it easier to cover up their special identity. If a bachelor lives here for a long time, it may arouse suspicion from others. Now it seems normal and natural.

Since then, the two of them have worked closely together and their work has progressed smoothly.

After returning to Egypt with his beautiful wife, Lotz was not only warmly welcomed by General Yusuf and others again, but also became a real horse breeder by virtue of his own economic strength.

Friends of the Knights Club have special respect for the couple and affectionately call him "Beard".

Knights Club is located near the racecourse of Gizikh Sports Club on the Nile Island, close to the military station, which is a unique place for Lotz to engage in espionage.

Lotz and his wife spent a lot of money to buy several Arabian thoroughbred horses, and hired Mulikai, the coach of Heliopolis Equestrian Center, as their trainer to help him train.

At that time, Lotz advertised that he took a fancy to coach Murikai's riding skills, but in fact he took a fancy to the location of Heliopolis Equestrian Center.

Because, at that time, except for some armed forces in the canal area, the Egyptian army was actually concentrated on a huge base in the desert near Heliopolis. Every large-scale action of those motorized troops had to start from here, and their equestrian center was near the military base.

So, every morning, Lotz takes his beautiful young wife to the racecourse to watch Murikai train horses.

To outsiders, Lotz often stands on a five-meter-high tower, holding a high-powered telescope to observe horse training, sometimes for hours at a time, out of concern for his expensive thoroughbred horse. Who would have thought that Lotz was an alcoholic-Lotz, standing on the tower, could have a panoramic view of all the activities of the military base close at hand by moving the telescope to the right.

With the spy's unique keen observation and more than ten years of military career experience, Lotz can identify the types of vehicles in the base almost at a glance, and can judge whether they are conducting tactical mobilization or ordinary daily exercises, whether the troops are out for training or driving military vehicles out for maintenance, and so on.

It is through this series of observations that Lotz accurately judged the important information of Egyptian armored forces moving to Sinai Peninsula.

Of course, all this was done in broad daylight under the eyes of Egyptian soldiers.

Officials of the Knights Club soon found that the rich Mr. Lotz became more and more interested in these Arabian thoroughbred horses.

On one occasion, Colonel Alouie Ghazi, a cavalry officer, asked Lotz about buying a horse. Lotz clearly told him that horses must be bought, but he didn't know where to put them after buying them because the stables in the club were full.

Colonel Ghazi told him that you can put your horse in the stable of Abbas Barracks.

Colonel Omar Hadari, commander of Abashi cavalry and captain of the steeplechase team, also thinks there is nothing wrong with this. He has many places, and every horse can be taken good care of by soldiers.

Upon hearing the friendly suggestions from Colonel Ghazi and Colonel Hadari, Lotz said with pretended regret, "Thank you very much for your friendly suggestions. But my friends, you know, there is one thing that cannot be solved. You know, I can't go in and out of your barracks at will, so I can't go to see my horse at any time. Didn't you say it killed me and my wife? "

Two Egyptian officers laughed when they heard what Lotz said.

Colonel Ghazi said to Roots, "Beard, it won't kill you and your wife. Let's help you solve this problem, Colonel Hadley. What do you say? "

Colonel Hadari immediately said, "No problem. Let's get a special pass for your husband and wife. You can come in and out at will. It's as simple as that! "

Roots pretended to be surprised and said, "Is this ok?"

Colonel Hadari waved and said, "I'll give you the special pass tomorrow. Now can you give us a picture of you and your wife? "

Since then, Abashi Barracks have opened their doors to wolfgang lotz and his wife.

With a special pass, it is as convenient for them to walk into the Egyptian military camp as it is to walk into their own bedroom. Later, the number of times increased, and even the sentries standing at the door were familiar with it. They have never been asked to show any identification.

The officers in the barracks warmly received them every time, and even took the couple around the barracks and showed them around every corner of the barracks. For Lotz, this military base is no longer a secret.

Since then, Lotz has more and more friends. Besides General Yusuf of the Knights Club and a group of young officers under his command, there are also military logistics experts, including General abdul sallam Lai Su Mans, General Fouad Osman, Colonel mohsin Said of the Military Counterintelligence Bureau, and even Egyptian Vice President Hussein Shafi.

These people regard Lotz as a former Nazi officer, trust him quite much and often ride horses and drink with him.

In friendly exchanges and casual conversations again and again, the officers handed a lot of valuable information to Lotz for free. The Lotz couple were busy behind closed doors every night, and passed the information obtained from horseback and wine glasses to the headquarters of Amon, Israel again and again.

Once, Mr. and Mrs. Lotz invited General Yusuf and his men to their home, and the general and his friends agreed happily.

By candlelight, in the elegant music of violin, they drank champagne, brandy and whisky one after another, and ate crispy roast grouse and German steak, which was romantic and friendly.

At this time, in order to thank the host for his hospitality, General Yusuf also kindly expressed on the spot that he was willing to accompany the Rhodes couple on a horseback riding trip in his spare time, so that they could enjoy the suburban scenery of the city. Mr and Mrs Rhodes accepted the invitation with pleasure.

Later, Lotz asked his wife to continue chatting with General Yusuf, and he turned to General Fuad because these people mentioned the word "destruction" in their conversation just now.

The sensitivity of a spy immediately stimulated Lotz's nerves. He raised his glass and said to General Fouad, "General, have you encountered anything unpleasant?"

General Fuad hesitated, but quietly told Roots that there had been an explosion in a hotel recently, and five people were killed. It is said that the Israelis did it. After investigation, it was found that the explosives were transported from outside in a spare parts box.

When General Fouad finished, he said to Roots, "Don't let this matter out. You can't let the outside world know about it. "

After drinking for several hours, the conversation between the host and the guest became more and more interesting. Gradually, the guests were talking in groups, and no one could hear them clearly. Lotz is the only one who is awake at this time, because his capacity for drinking is unparalleled.

After a while, he left General Fuad and sat quietly beside General abdul sallam, who was in charge of the mobilization of armed forces and ammunition transportation.

Salam broke a leg in the Suez Canal War, so the lame general is always complaining, as if all Egyptians owe him a leg.

At this time, he is a cliche, saying that Egyptian soldiers are not only lack of training, but also have low morale. He accused the administrative department of inefficiency, army officers could not make any decisions, and their tactical concepts were extremely outdated.

He also said that although the government invited many Soviets to guide the work, it did not trust them. There is no cooperation between the troops, and the orders issued are contradictory or completely out of command.

Lotz had heard such complaints before. Although it was nothing new, Lotz listened silently, touching the glass with the lame general from time to time and responding appropriately.

At this time, one thing that interests Lotz most is that Egypt has transferred an infantry brigade from here to the canal area and equipped it with a number of Soviet planes and weapons. He wanted to confirm whether the Egyptians were ready to fight through this lame general.

With the deepening of the conversation, General Salam not only confirmed the transfer of troops, but also revealed that although there was no immediate war, it was inevitable after all.

That night, after the guests dispersed, Lotz sent the information heard at the banquet to the Israeli intelligence headquarters in time.

Later, in order to further understand the real attempt of the infantry brigade to move to the canal area, the Lotz couple also pretended to be a pair of ordinary tourists who went swimming in the Dead Sea and made a field trip to the canal area.

In this way, wolfgang lotz's life in Egypt is not only pleasant and romantic, but also makes friends with the Egyptian elite, and easily collects all kinds of feelings in pushing cups and changing cups with those officers and celebrities again and again.

During this time, Lotz accurately obtained the information about the latest missile, rocket and aircraft manufacturing in Egypt and mastered the distribution of the Egyptian army. He reported this information to the Israeli headquarters in time and accurately.