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By Way of Deception

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92 BY WAY OF DECEPTION"I want you to remember to go slowly and delicately at all times,"said Gil. "Pace yourself. You'll have someone, say, from a minorityin his country, who has been given a bad deal and wants revenge.He can be recruited. And when you pay him money and he takesthe money, you know he's been recruited and he knows he's beenrecruited. Everybody understands you don't give money fornothing, and nobody expects to get money unless he's expected togive something back."And then there's sex. Useful, but it is not regarded as a method <strong>of</strong>payment, because most people we recruit are men. There is asaying that 'Women give and forgive, men get and forget.' That'swhy sex is not a method <strong>of</strong> payment. Money, people don't forget."Even if something works, Gil said, it doesn't necessarily mean itwas the right method. If it's right, it will work every time, but if it'swrong, it will still work sometimes. He told the story <strong>of</strong> an Arabworker, an oter (or finder) who was supposed to set up a meetingwith a subject they wanted to recruit. Gil waited in a car while theoter fetched the subject. Gil's cover story was that he was abusiness acquaintance. The oter had been working for the Mossadfor a long time, yet when he brought the recruit to see Gil in thecar, he introduced Gil as Albert and the recruit as Ahmed, thensaid to Ahmed, "This is the Israeli intelligence guy I was telling youabout. Albert, Ahmed is willing to work for you for $2,000 amonth. He'll do anything you want."Oters — always Arabs — are used because there are very fewArabic-speaking katsas, and it's much easier for one Arab to startthe initial contact with another. The oter breaks the ice, as it were.After a while, katsas find out just how useful they are.In Gil's story, the direct technique worked. Ahmed was recruited,but obviously it was not done properly. Gil taught us that life hasa flow to it, and when you are recruiting, you must go with it.Things have to occur naturally. For example, suppose you knowthat a man you want to recruit will be at a Paris bistro on aparticular evening. You know he speaks Arabic. Gil would sitbeside him and the oter would be sitting a little way down the bar.Suddenly, the oter would notice Gil,

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