Why are traitors so cheap?

[voluptuary_manque]

Risk life in prison for a measly $11K? Unreal!

 

[amicus]

I heard that on the news today; appreciate the link...

I would speculate that someone deeply loyal to Israel and concerned with the IDF being able to intercept missiles from Iran, might well risk everything with patriotism as the motive.

For those unaware of the creation of a Jewish State in 1947, I found two films that are very well done:

Kirk Douglas: Cast a Giant Shadow
Paul Newman: Exodus

Amicus

 

[driphoney]

This type of thing is not new in the intelligence community. The traitor almost always does it for what is considered little pay-out. The motivation is usually not money, it's revenge. The traitor, apparently, is usually the office odd-ball, the out-cast who doesn't fit in.

Of course, there are exceptions.

 

[driphoney]

I heard that on the news today; appreciate the link...

I would speculate that someone deeply loyal to Israel and concerned with the IDF being able to intercept missiles from Iran, might well risk everything with patriotism as the motive.

For those unaware of the creation of a Jewish State in 1947, I found two films that are very well done:

Kirk Douglas: Cast a Giant Shadow
Paul Newman: Exodus

Amicus

You know, I think I saw the Paul Newman one. The other one I'd like to see.

Patriotic motivations would be different than what I was addressing.

 

[Boxlicker101]

This type of thing is not new in the intelligence community. The traitor almost always does it for what is considered little pay-out. The motivation is usually not money, it's revenge. The traitor, apparently, is usually the office odd-ball, the out-cast who doesn't fit in.

Of course, there are exceptions.

I suspect this case is one of those exceptions. My guess would be that he wanted to provide Israel, where he expected to retire, with what he thought they would need to defend themselves in a hostile area. The money was probably secondary.

He probably doesn't even consider himself to be a traitor.

 

[amicus]

You know, I think I saw the Paul Newman one. The other one I'd like to see.

Patriotic motivations would be different than what I was addressing.

Senta Berger...let me search that for certainty...(pause) http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Giant-Shadow-Kirk-Douglas/dp/B00005S8KR

Yes...photo's of her at that age might be inspiration to seek out the film(dirty ole man that I am, I yam...)

ami

 

[driphoney]

Senta Berger...let me search that for certainty...(pause) http://www.amazon.com/Cast-Giant-Shadow-Kirk-Douglas/dp/B00005S8KR

Yes...photo's of her at that age might be inspiration to seek out the film(dirty ole man that I am, I yam...)

ami

Put it on my Netflix list! I love old movies.

 

[amicus]

Enjoy!

 

[JackLuis]

So the FBI is inducing people to be traitors? I guess the other way to look at it is the guy was identified as a potential risk and the FBI let him leak the stuff to them before Mossad could get to him?

Maybe there is a story in it?

 

[amicus]

]So the FBI is inducing people to be traitors? I guess the other way to look at it is the guy was identified as a potential risk and the FBI let him leak the stuff to them before Mossad could get to him?

Maybe there is a story in it[/I]?

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I have always been suspicious of these, 'sting' operations, whether by Dan Rather, "60 Minutes", or the ACORN undercover op by novice journalists. Just where is the line drawn between outright solicitation and entrapment and such?

And yes, a story indeed, I have already included it in my novel in progress concerning Iran and a nuclear weapon, although I will have to 'backwrite' it in.

ami