Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.
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.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.