The Science Liaison Bureau, also known as LAKAM, was an Israeli intelligence agency. It was previously known as the Office of Special Tasks and was led by [[Binyamin Blumberg]]. LAKAM's agents operated worldwide, collecting technical information and setting up front companies in [[Europe]] and [[Latin America]] to purchase high-tech equipment from the [[United States]] that would otherwise not be permitted for export to [[Israel]].[^1] ### Footnotes [^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 15.