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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 91would have at least 20 agents. Each <strong>of</strong> those 600-plus agentswould average at least $3,000 a month, plus $3,000 in bonuses,and many would earn considerably more, which cost the Institute$15 million a month at least just to pay the agents. In addition,there were the costs <strong>of</strong> recruiting, safe houses, operations,vehicles, and numerous other expenses, all adding up tohundreds <strong>of</strong> millions a month.A katsa would spend easily $200 to $300 a day on lunches anddinners, and about $1,000 a day in total expenses. That wasanother $30,000 to $35,000 a day just to keep the katsas inexpenses. And that's not even counting the katsa's salary, whichvaried from $500 to $1,500 a month, depending on his rank.Nobody said intelligence comes cheaply.Next, Dov taught us how to build a "secure route." That means aroute someone else is securing. We learned about the tie-in withthe yarid (or "country fair") branch <strong>of</strong> operational security andwatched a long training movie on the subject.Yarid teams consisted <strong>of</strong> five to seven people. There were at thistime a total <strong>of</strong> three such teams. When they were in Europe, thehead <strong>of</strong> European security was their boss.The main reason for the lesson was to show what support yarid<strong>of</strong>fered katsas, but also to show them how to secure a routethemselves if yarid was not available.* After I learned that, a wholenew world opened up to me. I used to go into cafés in Tel Aviv, andsuddenly I'd notice all this activity on the street that I'd never seenbefore — police following people. It happens all the time, butunless you're trained in it, you don't see it.Next came Yehuda Gil's lecture on the subtleties <strong>of</strong> recruitment.Gil was a legendary katsa, whom Riff introduced as "a master.' Hebegan by saying that there are three major "hooks" for recruitingpeople: money; emotion, be it revenge or ideology; and sex.* See APPENDIX I**See PROLOGUE: OPERATION SPHINX; Chapter 12:CHECKMATE;Chapter 15: OPERATION MOSES

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