his “contacts in Thailand were an advantage” for getting this busi-
ness, and he was asked to go to Israel to conclude the deal. All went
according to plan. On 2 September 1993 Levinson was convicted of
spying for the Soviet Union and was sentenced to 12 years in prison.LEVY, VICTOR MOISE (1932–?).An Alexandria-born Jew, at age
11 Levy joined the Jewish Zionist movement Ha’Shomer Ha’Tsair. In
1951 he was recruited to the Alexandria cell of the Jewish espionage
network in Egypt by Major Avraham Darof Unit 131. Levy partic-
ipated in planting an explosive device in the Rio Cinema in Cairo.
Following the covert action known as the Bad Business, Levy was
found guilty by an Egyptian court and was sentenced to life impris-
onment. After 14 years in jail, in a prisoner exchange following the
1967 Six-Day War, Levy, together with the rest of network’s prison-
ers, was released and allowed to travel to Europe. Thereafter they
made their way to Israel.LIAISON BUREAU/LISHKAT HA’KESHER.See NATIV.LIFT OPERATION.King Hussein of Jordan began meeting Israeli
leaders in person from 1963 even though the two countries were for-
mally in a state of war. Even after Israel occupied the West Bank in
1967, business with King Hussein proceeded as usual. The Israeli
leaders were intent on hammering out a peace treaty with Jordan, but
the two sides reached only a de facto peace. The Mossad, because of
its contacts with the Central Intelligence Agency, was charged with
the task, especially during the premiership of Yitzhak Rabin from
1974, of arranging the details of this de facto peace. This project had
the codename Lift Operation.LILLEHAMMER AFFAIR (1973).On 21 July 1973 Mossadagents
in Lillehammer, Norway, killed a Moroccan waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki,
after misidentifying him as Ali Hassan Salameh. Salameh was the
leader of the Black September Organization, the Palestinian group
that had carried out the Munich massacreat the 1972 Olympics. A
Mossad agent shot Bouchiki as he walked back from a cinema to his
apartment with his pregnant wife. Two members of the assassination
team were arrested the next day as they reused a getaway car to go toLILLEHAMMER AFFAIR • 15906-102 (03) H-P.qxd 3/24/06 7:24 AM Page 159