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Immediate Denial of Compromised Foreign Assets in Tier 1 Countries
- Type
- Policy Memo
- Year
- 2025
- Domain
- Intelligence
- Author
- Andrew Azadan
(U) The claim
What a service owes an agent who believes they have been exposed — and whether denial can ever be justified.
A memorandum to the National Security Advisor on one of the genuinely unresolved questions in intelligence ethics: what an organization should tell foreign assets about the support they will receive if they believe they have been compromised and face reprisal.
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