Yup. spies result from a large variety of motivations ranging from financial - $ - to misguided patriotism (we’ll punish those libs by leaking info) to outright ideological devotion - whether that’s to making sure there’s a level playing field by leaking nuclear secrets (Fuchs) or helping the soviets outright due to indoctrination like the Rosenbergs…
racism is rarely the sole motivation for espionage and I’d say it’s on the lower end of possible motivations in terms of occurence. A fun read is The Second Oldest Profession, tho it’s dated.
Yup. spies result from a large variety of motivations ranging from financial - $ - to misguided patriotism (we’ll punish those libs by leaking info) to outright ideological devotion - whether that’s to making sure there’s a level playing field by leaking nuclear secrets (Fuchs) or helping the soviets outright due to indoctrination like the Rosenbergs…
racism is rarely the sole motivation for espionage and I’d say it’s on the lower end of possible motivations in terms of occurence. A fun read is The Second Oldest Profession, tho it’s dated.