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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, onionskins of identity were being peeled from the captive. He proved to be Mordecai Luk, 31, a Moroccan-born Jew who had immigrated to Israel in 1949, did his army service, married and fathered four children, and took up two professions: carpentry and crime. He has a record of five convictions, on charges ranging from forgery to criminal trespass. In 1961 he slipped out of Israel to Egypt and began an equally unsavory new existence making anti-Israel broadcasts over Radio Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Came In from the Trunk | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Luk now told police he had been working for Egyptian intelligence for a monthly salary of $100 to $160. During the past ten months, he had been based in Naples, presumably spying on NATO installations. He had come to Rome, he said, to beg a raise in salary. This story convinced nobody, for if Luk were merely a disgruntled small fish, it would hardly have been worth the trouble to kidnap him. The suspicion grew that Luk was either a double agent, also working for Israel, or that the Egyptians thought he was. Later reports linked Luk to a Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Came In from the Trunk | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

Just Another Trip. Luk was as untrustworthy in love as in espionage. Two girls in Naples, a college student and a secretary, tearfully said he had promised to marry them. His wife in Israel has been trying for years to divorce Luk. and she said hitterlv last week, "I never spent a single happy day with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: The Spy Who Came In from the Trunk | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Luk at the kangarew I drue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...have to luk in the buk to spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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