Let me step back for a moment and provide a basic understanding of the difference between working espionage as an FBI agent and as a CIA officer. That sometimes gets confusing for people. The main thing to understand is that the CIA’s mission is to gather and analyze foreign intelligence, to collect information on the status of another country’s economy and defense. It is the FBI’s mission to prevent foreign governments from gathering and analyzing America’s intelligence, especially when this activity impacts our safety. This is known as counter-intelligence work.
An important distinction!
