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Intelligence Tradecraft & Ethics

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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