Pentagon Employees With Top-Secret Security Clearance Owe Millions In Unpaid Taxes

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11. I once talked to an MI Officer after a SAEDA (CounterEspionage) Brief

which are filled with colorful tales about the seduction of Private Lonetree by a beautiful Russian agent, sex blackmail, Aldrich Ames beating the lie detector test by staying awake all night so he'd be relaxed, Cold War ideologues, etc..

He admitted in a moment of candor that almost all of the people who sold US secrets (1) were uninteresting, boring types (2) had access (3) wanted copious amounts of money in return (4) were NOT ideologues and (5) shared a sociopathic disregard for the consequences.

In other words, almost all of them had nothing in common with the individuals we talked about during the briefing. When I asked him why he had no comment.