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that espionage has always been dominated by the professionals—the dozen spies Moses sent into Canaan (as told in Numbers 13) were definitely amateurs, as were Nathan Hale and Mata Hari—it’s certainly been the case since World War II. But that’s now changing. In the last decade or two, the expert nature of spycraft, like

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