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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 97We checked up on this later and apparently these parties weregoing on all the time. The area around the pool is the most secureplace in Israel. You don't get in there unless you're from theMossad. What's the worst thing that could happen? A cadet seesyou. So what? You can always deny it.The next day in class, it was strange to sit there and take a lecturefrom Hessner after what we'd seen him doing the night before. Iremember I asked him a question. I had to. "How's your back?" Isaid. "Why?" he replied. "You walk like you strained it," I said.Heim looked at me then, and his chin almost hit the floor.After Hessner's rather long, dreary lecture, we sat through anotherabout the military structure <strong>of</strong> Syria. It's hard not to fall asleep inthose lectures. If you were out on the Golan Heights you'd beinterested, but all that stuff about where the Syrians weredeployed was rather boring, although the general picture sank in,and that was all they really wanted to happen.* * *Next on the course was a new subject on securing meetings inbase countries. The first lecture included a Mossadproducedtraining film on the subject. The movie didn't have much impacton us. It had all these people sitting in restaurants. What'simportant is learning how to pick a restaurant or when to have ameeting. Before any meeting, you check to make sure nobody elseis watching. If you're meeting an agent, you want him to enter firstand sit down, so you can make sure he's clean. Every move youmake in this business has rules. If you break them, you could be adead man. If you wait for your agent in the restaurant, you're asitting target. Even if he gets up to go to the washroom, you'dbetter not wait for him to come back.That happened in Belgium once when a katsa named Tsadok Offirmet an Arab agent. After they'd sat for several minutes, the Arabsaid he had to go and get something. When he came back, Offirwas still sitting there. The agent pulled out a gun and filled Offirwith lead. Offir miraculously

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