The location here is the Israel Embassy in Paris where a family member of Munir Redfa first contacted Israel agents to sell the MIG 21 for one million dollars.
Munir Redfa (Arabic: منير ردفا, born Munir Habib Jamil Rufa (Arabic: منير حبيب جميل روفا) (1934 – circa 1998)) was an Iraqi fighter pilot, of Assyrian ethnic origin, who defected in 1966 by flying a MiG-21 of the Iraqi Air Force to Israel. In what is considered as one of the Mossad's most successful operations, Redfa's entire extended family was smuggled safely out of Iraq to Israel. The MiG-21 fighter was evaluated by the Israeli Air Force and was later loaned to the United States for testing and intelligence analysis. Knowledge obtained from analysis of the aircraft was instrumental to the successes achieved by the Israeli Air Force in its future encounters with Arab MiG-21s.[1] Redfa's defection was the subject of the movie Steal the Sky.