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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 61Kauly and Ran S. Kauly told us, "When you work in gatheringintelligence, you're not a Victor or a Heim or a Yosy, you're akatsa. Most <strong>of</strong> our recruiting is done under cover. You don't walkup to a guy and say, 'Hi, I'm with Israel's intelligence and I wantyou to give me information for which I will give you money.'"You work under cover. Which means you are not what youappear to be. A katsa is expected to be versatile. That is the keyword — versatile. You might have three meetings in one day, andat every one, you'll be somebody else, and that means somebodyelse completely."What's a good cover? Something you can explain with one word.Something with the widest range <strong>of</strong> possibilities. If somebody askswhat you do and you say, 'I'm a dentist,' that's a great cover.Everybody knows what a dentist is. Of course, if someone openshis mouth and asks for help, then you're in trouble."We spent considerable time practicing covers, studying variouscities through library files, learning to talk about a given city as ifwe'd lived there all our lives. We also practiced building apersonality and learning a pr<strong>of</strong>ession in one day. This includedmeetings with experienced katsas where cover stories would betested, by means <strong>of</strong> casual conversation.The exercises were staged in a room fitted with television cameras,so the other cadets could watch from the classroom.One <strong>of</strong> the first things we learned was not to give out too muchinformation too quickly. It's just not a natural thing to do. Thiswas a lesson learned in short order by Tsvi G., 42, a psychologistand the first cadet to be subjected to the exercise. Tsvi faced thekatsa and talked nonstop for 20 minutes, blurting out everythinghe knew about his cover city and pr<strong>of</strong>ession. The katsa didn't sayanything. Back in the classroom, we laughed our heads <strong>of</strong>f. Andwhen he'd finished, he came back to the class and went, "Ah, it'sover." He was happy.We were all brought up in the military where you have a sense <strong>of</strong>loyalty to your friends, so when Kauly first asked us

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