The less racist a country is, the harder it is to detect enemy spies. #showerthoughts
What? I don’t understand.
Spies are usually able to blend in with the local population. And theres plenty of people who have turned spy for an enemy nation.
People that are too focused on race or a sense of what makes someone different might overlook spies that look like them and talk like them.
@svc@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz But there would also be fewer such “domestically grown” spies.
The OSS disagreed. They used Germans to spy on Nazi Germany.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/hitlers-nightmare-meet-americas-spies-nazi-germany-148301
Initial selections were made from several demographic POW groups, Catholics, Austrians, and those who had been assigned to punitive battalions because of their political views. Potential recruits were cleverly transitioned from the main prison population through assignment to work details. After days of observation, the candidates were given intense interviews to determine their motivation to “betray their country” by returning to Germany as American spies.
Nice showerthought.
