There is one class of spook we have not encountered as yet. This is the scalp-hunter, or defector-hunter. Quite often a scalp-hunter will be more valuable than almost any other intelligence operator.
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Scalphunter
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But agency policy is that the case officer is, in the jargon, a "scalp hunter" who must turn a contact into an agent […]
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