maintained his connection with Nuri, now Egyptian military attaché in
West Germany, and even sold him classified IDF documents.
Elad was recalled to Israel on a pretext. Once there, he was de-
tained and interrogated about his contacts with a foreign intelligence
agent. However, he was not questioned about betrayal of the Jewish
espionage network in Egypt. The reason for the omission was largely
internal political circumstances in Israel. Such an interrogation might
have opened a Pandora’s box concerning who gave instructions to
carry out the sabotage acts in Egypt against Western targets; it was a
kind of cover-up. Elad was found guilty of being in contact with Nuri
and was sentenced to 12 years in prison; on appeal to the Supreme
Court, his sentence was reduced to 10 years.
In prison Elad was known only as X4. In the neighboring cell in
Ramle jail was another Israeli spy, Mordechai (Motke) Kedar, who
was also a criminal and a murderer. The two played chess through the
thick wall by tapping Morse code on it. Elad’s identity was long kept
highly classified by the Israeli censor. When the Israeli press referred
to the Bad Business, without precise details, he was presented only as
the “third man.”
After his release from prison, Elad left Israel for Los Angeles, where
he later died of cancer.ELIAV, ARYEH (LOVA) (1921– ).Born in Moscow, Eliav immigrated
to Palestine as an infant in 1924. He joined the Jewish Haganah un-
derground in 1936 and later volunteered for the British army
(1941–1945). After the establishment of the State of Israel, he served
in the Israeli Navy and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Eliav
had a wide experience in clandestine activities. In summer 1958 he was
stationed in Moscow as a Nativagent under a diplomatic cover at the
Israeli embassy. In this job, he was secretly engaged in sending pocket-
size Jewish calendars and Hebrew-Russian dictionaries, Bibles, and
Hebrew newspapers to Jews in the Soviet Union, knowing that the So-
viet authorities considered such material antistate propaganda.
On 9 November 1956, after the Sinai Campaign, Eliav was sec-
onded to the Mossadfor a special purpose: to command the Tushia
Operation, bringing the Jews of Port Said safely to Israel. Eliav, to-
gether with Major Avraham Darof Military Intelligence, appearedELIAV, ARYEH•8906-102 (02) A-G.qxd 3/24/06 7:23 AM Page 89