That was one of the things I found so amusing about the net shows on mysteries, spies, and the like.
In the cold war, we trained soldiers to fight on great battlefields and spies to pass for diplomats.
"Hooter will watch them more closely tonight and I shall call on other spies as well."
Later the camera zooms in on spies that have been following Beck the whole time.
The Russians come down pretty hard on spies.
He would have considered it cowardly to waste money on spies.
An historian, he was considered an authority on spies, but also wrote travel books and on politics.
The document blamed the "very grave" situation on spies who had "spread throughout the land like locusts."
"But just to be completely clear, you aren't instructing us to reverse our policy on known spies?"
The glee it brought him indicated that there was a bounty paid on spies.