re: #327 allegro

There are some interesting pieces missing here. Did they just spontaneously decide to give/sell secrets to Venezuela with undercover FBI agents waiting for a call? That doesn’t sound quite plausible. Were they contacted by undercover agents because they were suspected? Makes more sense but what did they do to earn that suspicion? I wonder…

Here is how they discovered him…

Many previous FBI spy sting cases have begun this way: U.S. intelligence learns, often by electronic surveillance, that someone in this country is trying to contact a foreign power to offer their services or U.S. secrets. Then the FBI has an undercover agent pose as a representative of that country to respond favorably, cultivate a relationship and see what, if any, secrets the person tries to pass or sell.

It must happen all the time and sometimes they actually find someone who wants to make money by giving up military secrets. These people are dispicable.