Espionage and spying was one of the
defining characteristics of the Cold War. It is easy to be nostalgic
about the Cold War, of course. It was a time when America had a
functioning economy, when the political system had not been destroyed, when we could still believe in
the American Dream in one form or another.
It was a time of the Berlin Tunnel, of
the silent war between nuclear submarines, of Mutual Assured
Destruction, defections and moles, of spy satellites and science
education, of sensor nets under the ocean built at vast expense but
capable of hearing a whale at 2000 kilometers, or a door opening on a
submarine while submerged.
Espionage and the secret service, some think, are the purest
expression of the war between civilizations, fought by a nation's elite secret service that manifest the moral codes that define the opposing
civilizations. This makes the secret service the first line of defense, the avant garde
of the revolution, the keepers of the faith. They are the mujadeen, the soldiers of
God who are willing to die for God.
The Defense Personnel Security Research
Center in Monterey, CA, set out to write a report that summarized
espionage and other breaches of national security in this nation in
the last 30 years. It's goal was to provide a series of case studies
for educators of security personnel. It provides good summaries of
the different types of espionage cases that have been found and
prosecuted in the modern period. It has been regularly updated, the
latest version adds 20 more recent case studies up to 2008.
If, as mentioned above, the secret
service represents people who are Defenders of the Faith and of the
Faithful, then many of the people whose cases are summarized in this report are the Fallen, those
who by their actions have fallen from Grace with God and
are damned forever.
I have selected a few pages at random
for your review and the URL for the full report is listed below. You
could read it in its entirety, if you were of a mind to do so, in a
few hours at most.
"Espionage and Other Compromises
of National Security"
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