Comments on: Igor Sutyagin and I.F. Stone: Spies? http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/igor-sutyagin-and-i-f-stone-spies/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Dawson http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/igor-sutyagin-and-i-f-stone-spies/#comment-48118 Michael Dawson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:39:05 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=8717#comment-48118 Aside from the obvious hypocrisy of being the world's leading spymaster by a factor of 100 while also treating the spying of other powers as treason, I'd also argue that treason properly defined is betrayal of the genuine safety and security of the resident of the country. Passing strategic info to Hitler would be treason. Passing strategic info to the USSR probably _decreased_ the likelihood of World War III, and we know ought to admit that the claims about the predatory designs of the Soviets were false, terrible as that regime was. Aside from the obvious hypocrisy of being the world’s leading spymaster by a factor of 100 while also treating the spying of other powers as treason, I’d also argue that treason properly defined is betrayal of the genuine safety and security of the resident of the country.

Passing strategic info to Hitler would be treason.

Passing strategic info to the USSR probably _decreased_ the likelihood of World War III, and we know ought to admit that the claims about the predatory designs of the Soviets were false, terrible as that regime was.

]]> By: mabamford http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/06/igor-sutyagin-and-i-f-stone-spies/#comment-48116 mabamford Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:27:31 +0000 http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=8717#comment-48116 to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see http://www.forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?t=59139 to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3574 to view a partial list of crimes committed by FBI agents over 1500 pages long see
http://www.forums.signonsandiego.com/showthread.php?t=59139

to view a partial list of FBI agents arrested for pedophilia see
http://www.dallasnews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3574

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