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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 57on the information. The sender was usually identified as adepartment rather than as an individual.The date went on the left side, along with the speed at which themessage was to be delivered — cable, quick cable, regular, and soon — with an identifying number for the letter.Underneath all this, in the middle <strong>of</strong> the page, went the subject ina one-sentence headline with a colon, and the whole thingunderlined.Under that, you wrote, for example, "in reference to your letter 3J,"and the reference date. If you included people on the list <strong>of</strong>recipients who did not receive the letter referred to, you had tosend them a copy <strong>of</strong> that, as well.If there was more than one subject, they were divided by numbers,each one a single understandable reference. Every time you wrotea number, for example, "I ordered 35 rolls <strong>of</strong> toilet paper," yourepeated it: "I ordered 35 x 35 rolls . . ." That way, if there was adistortion in the computer, the number would still be legible. Yousigned at the bottom, using your code name.We would spend many classroom hours practicing NAKA, sincethe organization's main goal is gathering information andreporting it.On the second day, a lecture on security was postponed, and wewere handed stacks <strong>of</strong> newspapers, already marked up withsquares around certain stories. Each <strong>of</strong> us was given a subjectand, using the newspapers as resource material, told to break itdown into bits <strong>of</strong> information and write reports. When all theinformation was exhausted, we were to write "no moreinformation" on the report, meaning it was complete for the timebeing. We also learned to write the subject headline only after wehad written the report.At this point, we were still commuting to class every day. We'dnow received our small white ID tag, consisting only <strong>of</strong> our photowith a barcode below it.Toward the end <strong>of</strong> the first week, Riff announced that we would belearning about personal security. He had just begun his lecturewhen the classroom door was noisily kicked in and two men leaptinto the room. One carried a

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