In November 1959 Lotz was sent to West Germany, where he spent
a year generating his cover story as a former Wehrmacht officer. He
arrived in Egypt in December 1960 or January 1961 and at once
started to form connections with the German community and with the
high Egyptian echelons. He visited riding clubs and soon learned
which of them was frequented by Egyptian army officers. He met
General Youssef Ali Gahourab, chief of the Egyptian police, intro-
ducing himself as a horse breeder. The two soon developed a genuine
rapport and friendship. Word quickly spread among the Egyptian
elite of the rich German. Within days, Lotz was deluged with invita-
tions to dinner parties, cocktail parties, or swimming parties. Wealthy
horse fanciers sought his advice. Gahourab arranged to go riding with
him daily. Nor did Lotz skimp on his own show of generosity. He en-
tertained often and lavishly, carefully noting the titles and military
ranks of the acquaintances he made. He bought horses of his own and
stabled them at the Cavalry Club.
Six months later, in mid-1961, Lotz returned to Europe to report
to his MI handlers, who were greatly satisfied with his progress.
Lotz made ready to travel back to Egypt with a large sum of money
and a radio transmitter to keep in secret contact with his case offi-
cers in Israel. But before his return he did something extremely un-
usual for a spy in his position. Lotz, who had a wife in Israel, re-
mained married even though the marriage was not going well. Yet
this did not prevent him from engaging in a complicated love af-
fair. On the train from France to Germany in June 1962, he met a
very pretty, blond, blue-eyed girl named Waltraud Martha Neu-
mann. She was a refugee from East Germany living in America,
visiting her parents in Germany. Two weeks later, the couple mar-
ried. Without consulting his Israeli handlers, Lotz took his bride to
Cairo. Frau Lotz soon discovered what her husband was doing, or
he told her on his own initiative that he was spying for Israel. Ac-
cording to unconfirmed reports, Waltraud may actually have been
simply part of his cover story; the West German Intelligence Ser-
vice (BND) had assigned her to work with Lotz as part of their
clandestine cooperation with Israel. Whatever the truth, their love
was real, and when he told her he was spying for Israel, she agreed
to help him enthusiastically. His second marriage became known
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