I think in intelligence you have to be slightly paranoid and highly compartmentalized. Because if the enemy figures out Point A, it might not take them long to deduce Point B, and from there figure out Point C. A successful intelligence operation has to operate like the "cells" used by terrorist groups. One cell should not be able to compromise another.
Otherwise you are liable to have a Robert Hansen or an Aldridge Ames come in and destroy your entire intelligence organization.
What really bothers me about the Valeria Plame thing is that everyone she ever came in contact with abroad now has a target on their heads for the possibility of being a US spy.
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