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by andsoitis·4y ago·view on hn ↗
> Most spies and subversives of this sort

I dream of having a friend who is a spy. How did you meet spies and subversives of this sort?

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I didn't. Anyone who gets any level of clearance (or it used to be this way) has to go through training and they go over all this stuff in it. They try to push the "leverage" narrative hard in them, but it's pretty clear what really motivates these people. They're generally either depressed (not enough thrill in their lives, spouse cheated on them, etc.), pissed (e.g. because the gov't did something they didn't like) or narcissists ("I'm better and smarter than everyone else, and I can get away with this"). Almost everything else about the motivations behind their actions is a distant second issue. They'd have done what they did whether the leverage existed or not (and it often doesn't).
Get hired working on radar for Lockheed Martin or something and pretend to have a gambling problem