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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 65lowed was to lose them. If you did, how could you verify it? So,assuming they turned up again, so that I'd know I was beingfollowed, I'd immediately stop all planned activities. I might just goto a movie — but as far as our practices were concerned at thisstage, I'd be done.Each <strong>of</strong> us would carry a little hat in our pocket, and when wewere positive we were being followed, we'd put on the hat. Thenwe'd walk to a phone, dial a number, say who we were, and reportthat we were being followed — or not — and go home. We'd <strong>of</strong>tenmeet later at somebody's house to discuss the situation.In the entire period <strong>of</strong> training, I made only one mistake. I oncesaid I was being followed when I wasn't. That was because one <strong>of</strong>the other cadets copied my route plan and followed me by just fiveminutes. I saw the team following him and I thought they werefollowing me. But he didn't see them following him.<strong>By</strong> this time, the class had split up into several cliques, includingmine. You felt the vulnerability within the course. You were alwaysopen to attack, and in the classroom, that applied to everybody.But afterward we'd start meeting in groups <strong>of</strong> three or four,<strong>of</strong>fering one another advice and even starting to "recruit" the staffto help our cliques. We were practicing what we were taught onthe people who were teaching us.At this stage, the instructors were beginning to explain theapplication <strong>of</strong> what had been learned."Now that you've learned how to protect yourselves, you'relearning to recruit," they told us. "You come to a place verifyingyou're clean, then start to recruit, and after, you write the reportwith the NAKA you've learned. And you know how to useinformation from the constant pounding <strong>of</strong> data you've received."I remember Mousa saying, "At this point, my friends, you arestarting to crack the shell <strong>of</strong> the egg."The yolk was just around the corner.

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