The KGB and other intel services place the value of an agent-of-influence far above simply stealing secrets.
The most useful agents of influence are writers, reporters, academicians, government employees, law enforcement (especially counter-intel agents like FBI), and politicians. They are recruited by blackmail (preferred), ideology, money, sex, etc.
An agent of influence can be called upon to do the bidding of the handler whenever needed. A good example happened in the 1970s in Japan. The head of the Japanese Socialist Party in the Diet was blackmailed after taking a small amount of money from a Russian spy. When a MIG-25 pilot defected and flew to Japan, the Russians pulled the guy’s string. The legislator pulled out all the stops using his political influence to get the fighter returned to Russia intact before the CIA could take possession of it.
I’ll bet they have gay video of Obama. It would be a violation of SOP if they did NOT have blackmail hanging over his head.
” The KGB and other intel services place the value of an agent-of-influence far above simply stealing secrets.”
Absolutly correct!
Among the agents are; the entire democratic party, the entire media, most college professors, a large number of psuedo-scientists.
Did I leave anybody out?