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From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Operation Moses
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Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 12:34:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 12:34:22 1985
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> I just heard on the radio (NPR--National Public Radio) that "Operation Moses"
> had been temporarily suspended last week because it had become public.
> Apparently those people in charge of it wanted it kept secret and thought that
> it was until then.
> 
> However, since it was discussed on Usenet at least a month ago, I'm not sure
> how secret it could have been.  What's the story here?  Is it the Israeli
> government's role that was secret or what?
> 
> 					Evelyn C. Leeper
> 					...{ihnp4, houxm, hocsj}!ahuta!ecl


Well, when I called my local UJA as prompted by the original
article, the woman I spoke with got all in a tizzy because someone
had posted to the net.  

I eventually got a call from a woman down in LA who claimed to be West
Coast assistant organizer or something. She was very concerned that
it had gotten into the net, because it was supposed to be private
information.  As she explained it, the info was supposed to stay in
the Jewish community, and not get written down (i.e., remain
word-of-mouth).  She told me that if Operation Moses became general
knowledge, the people running it in Israel would stop it.  Why? I
don't know.  They were afraid that the posting has violated this
"keep it unwritten" rule.

Operation Moses was also in the newspaper here in Portland, and when
I asked her about that, she said that someone had leaked the info to
one of the wire services, but that they were hoping that the leak,
since it didn't come from the UJA, wouldn't stop the operation.

That's all I know about it.  Anyone else?

Ariel (can we talk about it now?) Shattan
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