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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
five men were indeed Israeli citizens. They claimed to be in the
country working as movers for Urban Moving Systems Inc., which
maintained a warehouse and office in Weehawken, New Jersey.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">They
were held for 71 days in a federal detention center in Brooklyn, New
York, during which time they were repeatedly interrogated by FBI and
CIA counterterrorism teams, who referred to the men as the
“high-fivers” for their celebratory behavior on the New Jersey
waterfront.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some
were placed in solitary confinement for at least forty days; some
were given as many as seven lie detector tests. One of the Israelis,
Paul Kurzberg, brother of Sivan, refused to take a lie-detector test
for ten weeks. Then he failed it…</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;">…</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
suspicion, as the investigation unfolded, was that the men working
for Urban Moving Systems were spies. Who exactly was handling them,
and who or what they were targeting, was as yet uncertain.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It
was New York’s venerable Jewish weekly The Forward that broke this
story in the spring of 2002, after months of footwork. The Forward
reported that the FBI had finally concluded that at least two of the
men were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence
agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the
five Israelis, was a front operation. Two former CIA officers
confirmed this to me, noting that movers’ vans are a common
intelligence cover.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Forward also noted that the Israeli government itself admitted that
the men were spies. A “former high-ranking American intelligence
official”, who said he was “regularly briefed on the
investigation by two separate law enforcement officials”, told
reporter Marc Perelman that after American authorities confronted
Jerusalem at the end of 2001, the Israeli government “acknowledged
the operation and apologized for not coordinating it with
Washington”.</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Today,
Perelman stands by his reporting. I asked him if his sources in the
Mossad denied the story. “Nobody stopped talking to me”, he said.</span></span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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