[amelius]

If you are a high ranking government official and receive a gift that you want to keep in your office, then make a replica, and put that on your wall instead.

[unnouinceput]

And lose the opportunity to do a counter-intelligence move on your part? No way. Better analyze the shit of those "gifts", hope they are bugged and then use them to feed false information while you keep your real intelligence room free of anything.

[dclowd9901]

Yep. Intelligence is all about keeping the other side in the dark while looking like you’re in the dark.

[taneq]

It's like the old "never click on a link in an unsolicited email" rule.

[geekamongus]

You can always re-gift.