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Line 91: The ''Noga'', disguised as a merchant ship, was fitted with electronic surveillance equipment and satellite communications gear in its [[superstructure]], and was primarily used to intercept communications traffic in Arab ports. As the ship was heading from [[Antalya]] in Turkey back to Haifa, the captain was instructed by encrypted message to change course for Italy and anchor off the coast of [[La Spezia]], out of the port in international waters. Once in Rome, Vanunu and Bentov took a taxi to an apartment in the city's old quarter, where three waiting Mossad operatives overpowered Vanunu and injected him with a paralyzing drug. Later that night, a white van hired by the Israeli embassy arrived, and Vanunu was carried to the vehicle bound to a stretcher. The van drove with Vanunu and the agents to [[La Spezia]]'s dock, where they boarded a waiting speedboat, which reached the waiting ''Noga'' anchored off the coast. The crew of the ''Noga'' were all ordered to assemble ~~all~~ in the ship's common hall behind locked doors, as Vanunu and the Mossad agents boarded the ship, which then departed for Israel. During the journey, Vanunu was kept in a secluded cabin, with just the Mossad agents routinely interrogating and guarding him in turns, while none of the ''Noga'''s crew were allowed to approach either of them. On 7 October, the ship anchored off the coast of Israel between Tel Aviv and Haifa, where it was met by a smaller vessel to which Vanunu was transferred. Vanunu was detained in Israel and interrogated.<ref name=haretz /><ref>Hounam, Peter: ''The woman from Mossad: The story of Mordechai Vanunu & the Israeli nuclear program</ref><ref>Thomas, Gordon: ''Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad'' (2002)</ref> He was detained in a [[Gedera]] prison, in a wing run by Shin Bet.<ref>Cohen, p. 110</ref> On 5 October, the ''Sunday Times'' published the information it had revealed, and estimated that Israel had produced more than 100 nuclear warheads.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090709033602/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article830147.ece\|url-status=dead\|title=The Times & The Sunday Times\|archive-date=9 July 2009\|website=www.thetimes.co.uk}}</ref>

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