Sue Mi Terry is accused of helping South Korea in exchange for cash, luxury bags, fancy meals and expensive clothes.
  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 months ago

    This is funny considering the state department has direct contacts within SK’s government who provide real-time info about the president’s conversation with his government members.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
      19·
      5 months ago

      Allies spy on each other, it’s not unusual or shocking.

      Eventually she will be exchanged as part of some backroom deal, or in exchange for someone imprisoned in SK for providing information to the CIA.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      All countries spy on all other countries, generally speaking. Exceptions are usually going to be down to resource constraints, not principles.

      As an asset you still go to jail if you get caught. Or killed in potentially nasty ways, if it’s a less democratic country.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      I imagine they don’t pay you if you don’t work there, at the very least, and clearance only lasts as long as you keep it up to date.

  • Don_Dickle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    5 months ago

    Is it just me or is the CIA and inept network. They let a double agent giving secrets to Russia go for decades.

    • blackbelt352@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      The thing with intelligence agencies isn’t about the information they collect or apread but the means and methods of they collect or spread information.

      If ABC intelligence agency knows someone is a double agent feeding state secrets to XYZ foreign agency, that double agent can go be unknowingly molded into an asset for ABC by feeding them inaccurate information, or their patterns can be used to uncover other undiscovered agents and gain insights into other potential security holes.