Psychologist David Charney has a radical proposal for intelligence agencies trying to cope with turncoat agencies: coddle them.
“You have to offer them something that really would make a difference in their lives,” he says of turncoats who come to regret selling secrets to the Russians, Chinese or other adversaries. “And I came up with the one thing that I thought would make a difference: no jail.” The moles would, of course, face confiscation of their ill-gotten gains, heavy fines, a lifetime monitoring of their finances and perhaps relocation with a new identity, under a very strict watch. “All kinds of bad things,” Charney said during a recent lecture to insiders in Washington, D.C., “but no jail.”
Source: CIA, FBI Traitors Should Be Lured Back With Promise of No Jail Time, Expert Says
