Stephen Engelberg of ProPublica raises the issue of the value received from the money we spend on counter-espionage. The FBI has not revealed how much they spent on tracking the Russian plants overs a 10-year period. Certainly, it has to be in the millions. Equally certainly, we got nothing out of it or we would have at least charged these people with espionage.
And then there is the case of the defecting Iranian nuclear scientist. Who screwed up? Reports say this cost us at least $5,000,000 paid to the scientists, but we don't know how much the CIA spent on this case.
Engelberg does not think the money was well-spent. How can you disagree with him?
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