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by jmyeet
689 days ago
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You touch on an interesting point. There's an acronym I can't recall (nor find) now but when it comes to people betraying their country, there are basically 4 reasons why. I found this from the DNI [1] that lists: - Resentment towards one's employer - Financial need - Ego - Ideology You touch on ideology. It's a big one. It's a huge reason why the Manhattan Project leaked to the Soviets so quickly and completely. So what you're saying is that ideology would largely explain why someone would dedicate their life to being a sleeper agent like this. I tend to agree. That's an easier case to make with the USSR than it is with the Russian Federation. It's also private killers or assassins aren't really a thing. Like it can make for great fiction but hiring a stranger to kill someone? It doesn't really happen. There's a bit of a joke that if you go on the Web and try to do such a thing, there's a 90% chance you're talking to a Fed. This comes up with the death of Jeffrey Epstein. Many consider it a murder. I'm in the Carl Sagan camp of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". You can't really blackmail someone or pay someone to kill somebody else. So if someone did kill Epstein, it would really have to be a state actor or someone doing it for ideological reasons. If such a person worked at the MCC and had access, they'd likely expose themselves. Otherwise, getting in and out o fthe MCC pretty much requires the cooperation of people working there. [1]: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/campaign/Espionage.... |
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