Aviv is president and CEO of Interfor, an international investigative and intelligence firm, according to the
ABA Banking Journal. Aviv was employed by
Pan Am in 1989 to investigate who had bombed
Pan Am Flight 103. He says that he received the information from people who were involved directly and indirectly. In his report, he claimed that US agents had been monitoring a
heroin-smuggling route operating from the Middle East to the United States, which was run by a Syrian criminal. Aviv said that the Syrians had ties to
Hezbollah militants who were holding Westerners hostage in Beirut. According to Aviv, US agents agreed to allow the heroin smuggling to continue in return for help in freeing the hostages. At some point Turkish extremists, who worked at
Frankfurt Airport as
baggage handlers, swapped a suitcase of heroin for a bomb. The
President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism examined these allegations in 1989 and found "no foundation for speculation in press accounts that U.S. government officials had participated tacitly or otherwise in any supposed operation at Frankfurt Airport having anything to do with the sabotage of Flight 103." After the Interfor report was released, Aviv was described by diplomatic and intelligence officials as "a fabricator who had lied about his entire background." Later, Aviv stated, "I was never told directly that [my report] was wrong, I was always attacked as the messenger, as somebody who was a fabricator, a lunatic, whatever."
American RadioWorks, the national documentary unit of
American Public Media, looked into allegations that Aviv had never been employed by the
FBI or Mossad. They found several documents, including a memo from the FBI from 1982 and an informant agreement between Aviv and the
US Justice Department, which refer to a past association with Israeli intelligence. He has been used as a source by publications such as the
New York Times and by news networks
Fox News Channel and
ABC News. ==Involvement in
Vengeance==