What Spies Need

Reading spy fiction (I needn't list the authors again) gives us some idea of what spies need, particularly in war-time:

misdirection (if the enemy looks for you, make him look in the wrong place);

plausible cover (the ability to walk and talk unsuspected in the enemy capital);

a technical department providing forged documents and useful gadgets;

communications;

escape route;

combat skills (not all real-life spies have these but our favorite fictional secret agents do);

motivation;

intuition;

luck (Audentes fortuna iuvat).