Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.
“There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.”
“It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.”