Enter Mossad And Ravi Jayewardene
Dr. Rajan Hoole
As for the Israeli engagement and what it entailed, much valuable information is ob- tainable from By Way of Deception by Viktor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy, which was published in 1990, and the proceedings and report of the Mossad Commission in this country the following year, provoked by the same book. The book was written by the Canadian journalist Claire Hoy on the basis of information Ostrovsky had gathered while serving in the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad from 1983 to 1986, before quitting and flying off to Canada. It caused a sensation in Sri Lanka because of its references to purported dealings between Sri Lanka and the Mossad. Some of the claims made in the book are:
Ravi Jayewardene \ File photo
1. Amy Yaar, the Mossad official in charge of the region dreamt up the Mahaveli Project – Sri Lanka’s largest river diversion scheme.
2. The Israelis helped Sri Lanka to cheat the World Bank and other investors out of dollars to pay for all the arms they were buying. Mentioned in particular was giving different views of the same construction to pass them off as separate parts of the project.
3. At one point the Israelis were simultaneously training both LTTE and Sri Lankan security personnel in close proximity of each other in Israel and the Israelis took great pains to avoid their seeing each other.
4. On one occasion the drawing of the inside of a vacuum cleaner was shown and explained to visiting Sri Lankan officials as per- taining to highly sophisticated radar equipment.Read More
