Mossad

by Michael Bar-Zohar

"Mossad's license to kill."

Yet Dubai became a symbol of the new challenges facing any secret service in a changing world. The cloak-and-dagger era is definitely over. Security cameras, photographs and thumbprints at immigration, rapid checks of passports, DNA … all those require much more sophisticated means and methods from the spooks of this world when they set off on their dark, sinister missions.