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People that are too focused on race or a sense of what makes someone different might overlook spies that look like them and talk like them.
@svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz But there would also be fewer such "domestically grown" spies.
The OSS disagreed. They used Germans to spy on Nazi Germany.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hitlers-nightmare-meet-americas-spies-nazi-germany-148301
It is far easier to recruit someone already embedded in the institutions you want to penetrate then it is to train someone up, ship them over and hope they land a job with the right access.