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By Way of Deception

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BY WAY OF DECEPTION 77making sure refrigerators are properly stocked with food anddrink, bills are paid, and so on. If the safe house is needed, thebodel "occupier" may move to another one, or go to a hotel untilthe coast is clear. The bodlim can't bring friends or girlfriends tothese safe-house apartments, but their individual contractsusually range between $1,000 and $1,500 a month, depending onhow many apartments they're looking after. Along with no rent topay, no food or drink bills, and no tuition — which is paid by theMossad — it's not a bad deal.The cadets' next subject was Mishlasim, or, in intelligence talk,drops and dead-letter boxes. The first rule we learned was that inthe Mossad a dead-letter box was one-directional: from us tothem. There was no such thing as an agent leaving you a drop,because it could very likely be a trap.A group <strong>of</strong> people from the Mossad department that handles dropsexplained the basics <strong>of</strong> the art as follows:Having established what it is you must drop, the four mainconsiderations for success are these: you should take as little timeas possible to place the item; it should look inconspicuous whenbeing carried to the drop; it should be as simple as possible toexplain its location to your contact; and when he carries it away, itshould again be inconspicuous.I made a container from a plastic soap box, matching a gray spraypaint with a chip taken from a gray metal electric pole, thenpainting a lightning symbol in red on the box. I took four screwsand nuts, also painted gray, and glued them to the plastic, thenattached a magnet to the bottom. I attached the box by themagnet to the inside <strong>of</strong> the hood <strong>of</strong> my car, stopped by the electricpole as if I was having a car problem, attached the box to theinside <strong>of</strong> the leg <strong>of</strong> the pole, then drove <strong>of</strong>f. Nobody would see it.And even if they did, they wouldn't touch it because it was electric.When the agent picked it up, he could put it on the side <strong>of</strong> his carengine and drive away.We were also taught how to make a "slick," a hiding spot inside ahouse or apartment in a place that's easy to reach but difficult foranyone else to find. It's better than a safe. If you're in a placewhere you have to hide something quickly,

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