Professor Lang (Nicol Williamson) at the University tries to protect Armstrong and hides him at an archaeological dig at Qumran in the West Bank.

He promises to help him him get back to America, but Major Samuels (Donald Pleasence) of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet confiscates Armstrong's passport.

Samuels wants to use Armstrong to learn more about the organisation and leadership of the Arab groups and identify Rifaat as the leader of the West Bank Resistance.

At Qumran the beautiful Nurit (Daria Halprin) seduces Armstrong to keep him loyal to their terrorist group and arrange a meeting with Rifaat.

Flynn: I stayed at the American Colony Hotel in east Jerusalem, further refining the script while waiting for the production money to come in.

A. H. Weiler of The New York Times concluded his review stating, "The politics, the disparate motivations and the implicit drama of youth defeated by a world they don't want are only vaguely projected and are secondary to the chase and shoot-em-up action of The Jerusalem File.