For some reason, the US government has a 'thing' with trusting and hiring the locals and foreigners rather than their own citizens.
We are the only country in the world that I know of that is so stupid to actually "outsource" our intelligence.
Im not joking on this.
Actually, every country outsources intelligence-gathering. The USSR "outsourced" their gathering of intelligence to John Walker, Jerry Whitworth, Jack Dunlap, Aldrich Ames, Robert Hansen, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, et cetera, and so on, and so forth...