Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
“So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.”
“My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.”