loyalty to one’s country or an ideal; revenge; or to damage those whose secrets they sell and betray; and what West called a “bag of mixed psychological motivations.” His colleagues expounded on this bag, saying operatives are overly romantic thrill-seeking escapists with a need for control, a desire for power, narcissistic and conceited. They are empowered by the very secrets they harbor and their ability to conceal information, including about their own selves. A State Department consultant said that the operator “lives a life of half-secrets and half-truths. He can live life without having
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