I don't think many people dispute whether espionage in general is a practical moral good (or at least neutrality)... In the sense that we live in a world where

I don't think many people dispute whether espionage in general is a practical moral good (or at least neutrality)... In the sense that we live in a world where foreign governments keep secrets that can be dangerous to the survival of other governments. I mean, in an ideal world we wouldn't have spies... But we also wouldn't have police or military.