CIA Turncoats Should Be Lured Back With No Jail Time
Not much time seems to pass without learning of yet another turncoat in the CIA or other intelligence agencies. In February, feds charged Monica Witt, a former Air Force counterintelligence sergeant and later defense contractor, with passing extremely sensitive secrets to Iran. Over the past two years, two former CIA operatives were arrested independently on charges of spying for China.
Just more spy vs. spy stuff, fodder for books and movies? No. Those last two reportedly contributed to what was described as a "catastrophic" wave of arrests and executions of 18 to 20 CIA assets in China. Witt, who defected to Iran in 2013, allegedly provided her handlers with the names and sources of U.S. agents involved in clandestine activities.
As long as there are spy services, of course, there will be defectors. The
