After a couple of years, in 1984, we started writing articles for British and American newspapers here, for The Washington Post. MELMAN: We met in London as working journalists, and that was in 1981. So it's quite a feat, considered one of their best achievements. Got his million dollars and more importantly, Israel and the United States and everyone Israel wanted to share it with in the West got a look at that MiG. The deal was done - a million dollars, shelter - his wife and children - yes, he was married - also were smuggled out of Iraq and the Redfahs live in Israel now - new names, etc. And in Paris she introduced him to Israelis, took him to Israel. She lured him to go abroad to Paris - you know, 'Come and in Paris you can have all my charms.' And he did and he already was suspicious that maybe she's an intelligence officer, but he was willing. She befriended him and it was - well, what in the intelligence business they call a honey trap.

Well, anyway, the Israelis approached him through a woman. Just like these days, it happens as well. Among other things, he was disappointed at the time or unhappy that Iraq was bombing Kurdish rebels - Kurdish minority villages. They found out that he wasn't quite happy about everything. Well, they found a man called Munia Redfah in Iraq, an Iraqi air force pilot. So dossiers are collected by Aman - that's Israeli military intelligence - about everything they can - personal lives, where they live - looking for points of weakness. The Israelis are very good at cataloging everything they possibly can about the chief officers of the armies of the Arab countries surrounding them. DAN RAVIV,CO- AUTHOR, 'EVERY SPY A PRINCE: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF ISRAEL'S INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY': Well, what they had to do was convince a pilot to do it in the mid-'60s.

Every Spy a Prince by Dan Raviv