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Postscript

From the London Daily Telegraph of May 7, 1977:

ISRAEL SUSPECTED OF HIJACKING SHIP WITH URANIUM

by Henry Miller in New York

Israel is believed to have been behind the disappearance from the high

seas nine years ago of a uranium shipment large enough to build 30 nuclear

weapons, it was disclosed yesterday.

Officials say that the incident was "a real James Bond affair" and that

although intelligence agencies in four countries investigated the

mystery, it was never determined what had actually happened to the 200

tons of uranium ore that van-

ished . . . -Quoted by permission of Ile Daily Telegraph, Ltd.

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About the Author

KEN FOLLETr is the author of the bestselling Eye of the Needle, which won

the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Award as best novel of 1978

and which is available in a Signet edition. Welsh-born, he is a former jour-

nalist for the London Evening News and editorial director of Everest Books

in England. He now lives in Grasse, France, with his wife and two children.

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