shah’s chances of survival. He consistently maintained that the fall of
the shah was just a matter of time. His assessments proved correct.
In the early 1980s Lubrani favored continuing Israeli arms sales to
Iran because he felt that Khomeinism would disappear in due course
and Israel and the United States would restore their influence in Iran.
His recommendation developed into the well-known Irangate Affair.
In 1990 Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamirappointed Lubrani head of
an Israeli task force that planned and executed the Solomon Opera-
tion, which airlifted the greater part of the Jewish community of
Ethiopia from Addis Abba to Israel. He was also made coordinator of
Israeli government activities in Lebanon. In this position he predicted
in 1998 that the unilateral withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon would
be disastrous, which in the event proved to be wrong. Lubrani was
also chief Israeli negotiator for the release of Israeli hostages and pris-
oners of war in Lebanon. See also KALMANOVITCH, SHABTAI.LUNZ, AVRAHAM (RAMI).See NAVAL INTELLIGENCE SQUAD-
RON.– M –
MACKENZIE, BRUCE (?–1978).A British businessman and farmer
who settled in Kenya in 1960, MacKenzie was the only white cabinet
minister in Kenya after its independence. In 1976 he was a security and
intelligence consultant to President Jomo Kenyatta. As a British expa-
triate, he had contacts with the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6),
as well as the Israeli Mossad, which through its station in Kenya main-
tained excellent relations with the Kenyan security services. In January
1976 MacKenzie’s men caught two young Germans, Thomas Reuter
and Brigitte Schultz, who were wanted by Israel on suspicion of at-
tempting to use a SAM-7 missile to shoot down an El Al airplane tak-
ing off from the Nairobi airport. The two were transferred secretly to Is-
rael to stand trial (see alsoWRATH OF GOD OPERATION).
In late June 1976, when Israel was planning the Yehonathan Oper-
ation, its rescue of Israeli and Jewish passengers of an Air France plane
hijacked to Entebbe, Uganda, the Mossad turned to MacKenzie to seek
Kenyan permission to use Nairobi as the forward base for officers ofMACKENZIE, BRUCE• 17106-102 (03) H-P.qxd 3/24/06 7:25 AM Page 171