What makes a good recruitment? No two cases were alike with either recruits or agents. But in the course of interviews conducted over more than two decades I did come to see that image of how people became spies was frequently mistaken. Fiction has the spymaster as a cold and pitiless creature, but the recruiters from secret services I have met — and who have had, in the view of their peers, the most success — were quite the reverse. And many of them insisted that the best spies signed up for the sake of a simple thing: friendship.
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