C A Toronto inventor may hold the key to Entebbe By David larm 0 ks have now been written daring raid which rescued T'103tbhh'ijoack. ho=ges from Entebbe July 3, 1976. Numerous inter- official explanations have been ,n, yet the P How did ve', rae U r c s cu e UMz @Ume orne mai arLas g c t o e I u d e g the radar of six naWns lying beneath or alongside its flight path, induding thatof Uganda'? Wc- answer to the Entebbe m= may he with a 64-year-old app Upairman and heart patient Tfie first t of Sid Hurwich's mmection with the raid filtered out Last June at a ceremony in Toronto's Beth Tzedec syna&ogue. .where Hurwich was presented with the award of Protectors of the State of Israel on behalf of the Zionist Organization of Canada for a secret miliLiry device he had given Israel seven years earlier. Six weeks later an item appearl-A in the Toronto Star linkin th 'Hurwich device to the raid on Ente be. The wire services picked it up and the story took off around the world. The most detailed account appeared in Foreign P.-pail. a confidential dTlornatic journal producod by England s presti- gious Fzonomist magazine- In an un- ed article a uratly based on Israeli the ilrl6umtion orts that -all pu that could be learned ogdMy was that [Hurwich's] invention, had been used in the Israeli mid at Entebbe last yeaC The article chans the invention "sends out electronic rays to alter the natural corrt- =n of the magnetic fields and of gravity of weapons, instrument dials and mcclanical devices-On, the Hurwich principle them was no reason why the new belarns could not reach and disable tanks@ ground-to-ground -Lissilcs and complete radar "ems. The bearns owld also Ix tacked together- to f= a screen thd would, rnake wWe mm safe fiorn bombs m rnissilm Ile Israelis will not &M what tests have been m or howth,e;1u=rayhasbe=d According to his daughter, Sylvia Winkler, Hurwich "was arbiund @ when he started bu i g broken bicydes and y1q together, and when any- Ut them out appliances. he would pick rZly thern u? and put them together7 By 1 .34, with no training beyond high schook Hurwich had won a reputation as the first private Mliance repainan in Canada-before t M - tl@e manufac turers, did repairs. By e beginning of the Second Wbild War he was knowm as a For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA -X Ar INe Cat a secret SW 11ww1*64,wss given d tions on Metak used in &pphances, the repaw business took ofE B@ 1947 he had bWh.it up into Shock Electric. which remains one of the largest businesses of its kind in Toronto. In another buikLinhe garted Sklco Cm, devoted to m ng electrical pam Wben a heart anadc in. 1950 just about killed him, he sold the business and went into a comfonable r-dr-mi-at -t the apof-M. he idea for the Hurwich rq carm to him one everting in 1969 as he Tread about a rAsh of robberies fr= bank night .t vaults. 11just clicked what =urwich sayL "I picked up the phone to the polim-1 kiicw a -lot of the boys-and I told them I think I mr@ stop in about half those thievcries an roar Hurwich went to work in his basernent with S50 worth of spare parts, and withim a week had amm6led a working model to test his auxxy Bin Bolton. then head of I p sq" assern bkd Volice and -bank semnty officials at Purwich's hotm "All I can recaU7. says Bolton "is that it was under the table-the device, whatever it @vw- and them was a bedspread over the table. He froze mv, service revolver. You .1W State ofIsrad award by tbeZlon6t Orgudution forhis-mUzzy devicer it up oir the table and even on the table i you couldn't pull the trigW Hurwich continues: 'And dm I said 74ow take a -look at your watches: I remember out of them "When did this ha Tand1s&K7heMMutCYM wWkff= that door. You walked in them about 25 minutes ago. Now look at your watches. Ybu7m late about 25 Mii,UtCs7 - I . As the swm* officers filed &A of his home, HurwichIs wife overheard one of them suggest that the army should be told About the device. 'T'hat, was the first firric it eyff entered my mind for war or amy purposes or anythin like thaC Hw@va says. He went = to work in his basement. When he felt the device was Mady hecontacted a brother fivin ' g in Israel. Hurwich has never been to Isiad himself but he felt "they needed it more than jinybody, what with the Arabs SAW Mg th 'd I&C to push everjoine in"C sear R= reiceived a visit shoS. afterward rrom, two high-rankinS Lsra officers. After a briddimmtration they walked out witti ,@J UIC WorKM6 illu"Cl every plan and design Hurwich had. Htirwicli insLvs his device is not really an inventi He says he simply -took one of the oldest basic les of elec6city wid put it to a &7CMpPt use" Which principle he won't say. just as he refuses to disciuss how the device works. It only works an objects that will Ca a cw=t. he sa It can be aimed an7its range =Con its power sourm "An win a watc:V ex- plains yc"= Me- a Toronto consulting engineer. "It sounds to me like a very high-intensity electromagnetic field that he is able to project, but I don't know how he is generating iC White shakes his head skeptically. 'From jam- ming a few gm to jamming electronic oqwpmcnt at long range is a very large@ kip. But anything!s possibler urwich. has never patented his device- he doeat believe in pat- H cntL "It's SO CaSy 10 CDP)r, he Says. -I've copied flings from patents. Just make a rainoar change wh th A have a tough time in court P= I'Vroken the patenC Nor has he received any money (or his invention. Oppenheinaer and Co. of New York wrote recently to "offer any serviice to assist you in dcter- mda:r,; thc ccmmt rr4ll feasibility of your workand exploring avenues to bring your work to uschd commercial PU17KIM. D dc Hurwich says "at this stage mo CY x:&n*t Ienter my mindL I am not a youngster !and I can't take it wiLhme,4 For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96JUMOMOMMM-3