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Hmm. This assumes we know all the spies. But it could be true that spying has been wildly successful, and that most spies were never caught. In a scenario like
by sillysaurusx 5y ago
Hmm. This assumes we know all the spies. But it could be true that spying has been wildly successful, and that most spies were never caught. In a scenario like that, a breakdown of percentages would sound a lot less convincing.
I suppose most spies are caught, but I've always wondered whether Feynman was a spy. Not based on anything in particular; it's just tantalizing to think that random famous people are actually traitors. We'd never know unless they were caught, after all.
- ncmncm 5y agoMost people tried for espionage in the US in the last two decades were not spies at all. The people who should have been tried and executed, for participating in torture, and for destroying evidence that could have led to convictions for torture, are still in charge. Probably the overwhelming majority of actual spies in the US are not caught, because hardly anybody is even looking. And, the stuff they spy out is in the end mostly inconsequential, except insofar as it causes trouble for other spies.
- baybal2 5y agoI think, on Russian side they never really had anything like functioning counterintelligence screening. They instead had complete reliance on Hanses, or Ames like "super-spy" characters, with whom they went to any length to recruit as became known after USSR dissolved.
- hguant 5y agoLiterally everything you've said is is just patently false, and betrays a such severe lack of any sort of knowledge or understanding about the subject matter that one can only assume bad faith, or else that you're an object lesson in the failure of the US education system.
- ncmncm 5y agoI await your citations of American spooks fired, indicted, convicted, and executed for torture and other war crimes.