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By Way of Deception

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5RookiesAT, LAST, AT THE BEGINNING <strong>of</strong> March 1984, it was time to getout <strong>of</strong> the classroom.There were still 13 in the course at this point, and we were brokeninto three teams, each based in a different apartment in andaround Tel Aviv. My team stayed in an apartment in Givataim;another was downtown near Dizeng<strong>of</strong>f Street; the third on Ben-Gurion Avenue in the northern part <strong>of</strong> the city.Each apartment was to be both a safe house and a station. Myplace was a fourth-floor walk-up with a balcony <strong>of</strong>f the living room,another balcony <strong>of</strong>f the kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom, and aseparate water closet. The sparsely furnished apartment belongedto a katsa who was abroad.Shai Kauly was in charge <strong>of</strong> my safe house/station. The otherrookies assigned to it were Tsvi G., the psychologist; Arik F.;Avigdor A., my buddy; and another man named Ami, a highlystrung linguist who, among his other perceived faults, was aharping nonsmoker in an environment where chain-smoking wasconsidered part <strong>of</strong> the rites <strong>of</strong> passage.Ami, a bachelor from Haifa, had movie-star looks and was terrifiedthat somebody would beat him up. I don't know how he everpassed the basic testing.The five <strong>of</strong> us arrived about 9 a.m., our suitcases packed, and$300 cash in our pockets, a fair amount <strong>of</strong> money consideringthat a rookie salary at the time was $500 a month.We resented having Ami with us because he was such a99

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