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The devastating impact of espionage, discussing the loss of intelligence sources, institutional knowledge, and notorious double agents.
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And that's, I mean, in addition to the loss of life, as far as the intelligence community is concerned, when you kill somebody like that, you're killing like decades worth of information that the person has walking around in their head and contacts and just general knowledge of how things work. So it's a really big deal in addition to, again,
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