It is alleged that Myers' actions may not have been prompted by greed, but more by ideology.
holy fuck is there a lot to unpack in that sentence
Feels like it's implying that greed is the most common and normal motivation, and anything else is strange and alien. Some pure ideology at work.
from what I've learned from COINTEL operations studies is that there is a threat profile ranking system that rates threat targets by what drives them. I can't remember the acronym that was used but it rated threats in sequence from lesser to greater threat: monetary, voluntary, political, religious, and ideological.
MICE
There's variants but that's the one I'm familiar with. Money, Ideology, Coercion, Ego
The one I learned years back was during an educational seminar on the psychology of terrorism and how to combat it. I wish I still had the notes from it since it was a neat analysis into the varying root causes of it and the nuanced examination into the psychology of the varying kinds of terrorists.
What does "voluntary" mean here? And how does political differ from ideological?
It's weird how most of the people we send to spy on others are motivated by money, but people who spy on us are mostly motivated by a belief in socialism
Counterpoint: The idea that everything should be done for money IS the ideology
One of the GOAT double agents. The CIA/MI6 was getting it's shit wrecked by communist double agents like this constantly. The Cambridge Five, Aldrich Ames o7
oh yeah he was but he was so good at it the KBG bought him a Moscow house so :shrug-outta-hecks:
How do I sign up to spy on the US for a foreign power? Willing to be motivated by either greed or ideology, both would be a bonus
Start at age 18 with a clean record, go to an Ivy league school, get hired by State, rise up through the ranks until you have something worth stealing.
Born: Apr 15, 1937 (age 84) · Washington, D.C., United States
Education: Brown University · Johns Hopkins University
Pretty much everyone who got caught spying for communists were state department employees, mid to high level military officials, or worked at some kind of research laboratory. So go do one of those.
Lmao, Americans will literally blacklist actors for having vaguely left wing beliefs and have communist spies working in the state department for decades. Kind of love how incompetent they are at times. Reminds me of how there were a ton of Soviet spies in America, but every time they'd try to embed someone in the Soviet Union the guy would get domed within weeks.
This guy gets life and yet billionaires get off Scott free for ruining the environment and paying 0 in taxes
