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If you’re anything like me, you’re a sucker for a good spy show: Homeland, Tehran, Fauda, The Bureau. I am fascinated by the life of spies—the secret meetings in Beirut cafés, the wigs and false identities, the double and triple lives, always one step away from exposure, risking everything for their country.

Most of the time, those TV characters are pure…