I guess the cost to the USA looked like it was practically zero, with the chance that he might luck out and get home with some half-baked intelligence. Of cour

I guess the cost to the USA looked like it was practically zero, with the chance that he might luck out and get home with some half-baked intelligence. Of course, it ended up costing them in diplomatic shenanigans requiring them to give up Soviet prisoners to get the chump back.