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Why States Spy
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11374 |
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CURRENT ISSUES
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11 / 1986 |
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Thomas F. Troy
Thomas Troy is a CIA veteran and editor of both books and
periodicals on intelligence. |
So much has been said, in reams of newsprint and hours of radio and television time, about 1985 as the "Year of the Spy" that is seems nothing remains to be said; but is that so?
By the year's end, and into 1986, the government and the public had much to say about two angles of the conventional espionage triangle. Everyone had dumped on the spies themselves, most of whom were pathetic characters who had succumbed to financial, marital, and/or personality problems. Likewise, everyone had bemoaned the damaging loss of vital secrets and had something to say about now best to prevent further losses. However, little, if anything, was said about the third angle, the spymasters and those who manage them.
In the first place, there was no denunciation of the spy handlers who serviced the Walkers, the Pollards, Chin, and Scranage. No one in the White House, in the intelligence community, on Capitol Hill, or in the press or public zeroed in on them. With diplomatic immunity, they were quickly allowed to head for home.
In the second place, no one in or out of government zeroed in on the embassies, which, with their diplomatic privileges, were centers of espionage supporting the spymasters. No one denounced those embassies for housing, directing, financing, supporting, and sheltering the spy handlers who daily went about their clandestine and illegal business of spotting, recruiting, training, directing, servicing, and paying the spies who were selling them this country's secrets.
Finally, no one called upon the governments behind those embassies to
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