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There are many suggested motives for spying that an individual may have. In general, espionage carries heavy penalties, with spies often being regarded as traitors, and so motivating factors must usually be quite large.
There have been various attempts to explain why people become spies. One common theory is summed up by the acronym MICE, which stands for Money, Ideology, Compromise or Coercion (depending on source), and Ego or Extortion (depending on source). Another is the RASCLS framework: [1] Reciprocation, Authority, Scarcity, Commitment and Consistency, Liking, and Social Proof. Others have stressed the role of disaffection and grudges, or of personal links.
Coercion[edit]
Not all spies enter into service willingly—sometimes, a person can be threatened into providing secret information to another country.
Threats of injury or death are the most direct form of coercion. For example, Mathilde Carré, a member of the French Resistance, was captured by the Nazis and threatened with torture unless she became a double agent. Threats can also be made against family or friends of the target—Svetlana Tumanova was told by the KGB that her family in the Soviet Union would be harmed if she did not co-operate, and Ronald Humphrey said that he had helped North Vietnam in order to obtain the release of his Vietnamese wife.
A more subtle form of coercion is blackmail, with a government threatening to release embarrassing information about a person's activities unless that person provides them with secret information. A wide range of material can be used for blackmail—extramarital affairs, homosexuality, and undiscovered crimes have all been used for this purpose. John Vassall and Colonel Alfred Redl, who were threatened with revelations about their homosexuality, are both example of this type of spy. Sometimes, traps of this sort may be laid especially to collect blackmail material—Vassall was almost certainly set up, as was Clayton Lonetree, who was blackmailed after an affair with a Soviet agent. William Sebold, a German-born American, was threatened by the Nazis with revelations that he lied in order to immigrate. Sebold, however, quickly betrayed the Nazis, indicating a major problem with the use of coercion—the target has no real loyalty to their blackmailers, and will turn on them when possible.
originally posted by: burntheships
Also same source says there are wiretaps on many top
DOJ and FBI members of the " Secret Society" and
they have been infiltrated.
Oh boy!
originally posted by: burntheships
Reports coming in from the same sources say that DHS
has been alerted to threats of physical harm to POTUS
In the texts of Strzok.
Supposedly he was texting another FBI agent.
Uh oh....
This is going to get real ugly
originally posted by: shooterbrody
Upon seeing rogers travel to speak to potus upon his election, all these idiots should have shut up. They are too stupid for their own good.
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: soberbacchus
a reply to: butcherguy
See ISSA and WRAY discuss this in the video above.
I don't have 4 hours right now.
originally posted by: soberbacchus
originally posted by: butcherguy
originally posted by: soberbacchus
a reply to: butcherguy
See ISSA and WRAY discuss this in the video above.
I don't have 4 hours right now.
It's 5 minutes.
But willful ignorance noted.
originally posted by: pavil
a reply to: xuenchen
Is anyone buying they just "vanished" on their own?
This stinks to high heaven.
The FBI seems to be full of crooks, liars and cheats. Time for the those good people in the FBI to root out all the bad players.
It goes deeper than the FBI or the DOJ. Big people will be going down for allowing this culture to flourish. It took years for this happen.