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.
“Friends are very understanding when you tell them in April that you can see them next September, but there is a limit to how long you can go on like that.”
“Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.”