The book '' The Men Who Would Be King : An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls , Movies , and a Company Called DreamWorks '' by Nicole Laporte , a reporter for '' Variety '' , refers to Aviv and his background . Laporte writes about how Steven Spielberg vetted Aviv during pre-production on the movie , '' Munich '' ( 2005 ) . Spielberg assembled a brain trust of researchers and , through his connections at the White House and a Middle East diplomat , determined that , " His real name was Juval Aviv . Furthermore , Spielberg 's brain trust discovered FBI files proving that he and his team were not fictitious . " Aviv was employed by Pan Am in 1989 to investigate who had bombed Pan Am Flight 103 . He says that he " got the information from the horse 's mouth , from people who were involved directly and indirectly in the information " when investigating the bombing . 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
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
Juval Aviv