Everyone spies.
The French for toys and games, short lived products, Britian is still after our alien technology, Israel expects we have some plan to sell them out, everyone else has.
China just sends the best grad students to take over Physics.
Russia was mostly interested in who we had spying on them. The Five year Plan failed, it must be American Agents!
I knew some of the Americans, worked Germany in the wall days, they had the Russian Commander's girl friend's phone number, knew where he dined, and it was just in case they needed to get in touch with him quickly.
We also had the hot line to Moscow, Hello, one of our missiles has gone off course, we are sending details by fax, we are not pulling a suprise attack. By the way, congradulations on your daughters dog having such cute puppies.
Spying is mostly to verify that the other side is telling you the truth.
People who will sell out their own side are another class, Pollard will stay in jail for life.
This guy is in big trouble.
As the Romans said, "If a poor man steals, he wants more, he should be punished, if a rich man steals, he was just greedy, and should be punished ten times over, but if someone who holds the public trust should steal, kill him."
Also this week a very top IBM man was dismissed for selling company secrets, and a billionaire Hedge Fund operator was arrested for insider trading.
Sir Alan Stanford is in jail awaiting trial, thinking of ways to explain seven billion missing. The same jail holds a Texas Sheriff, and several Bankers who provided pipeline and money transfer services to a Mexican cartel.
The Bernie twins, Madoff and Ebbers, will both die in jail. Our recent Governer Edwards and son are doing a long term. We had three Insurance Comissioners in the Federal pen at the same time. I think we still do.
The recent IRS action brought in 7,500 people with unreported offshore bank accounts, one for a hundred million. They were the ones who could explain where they got the money.
It makes me think that people are not very honest.