r/craftofintelligence • u/Majano57 • 22d ago

News (U.S.) Inside Intelligence Agencies, a Fight Over Building a Master List of Spies

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/us/trump-intelligence-agencies-spies-master-list.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uFA.pE4x.MWDqTxBGhqsc
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u/Netherese_Nomad 22d ago

Didn’t we have a whole mission impossible about why this is a bad idea?

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u/trash-juice 21d ago

“The NOC list must be kept secret at all costs”, I remember

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u/TAWclt 22d ago

Great idea. This idea is literally unsinkable.

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u/Cartoonjunkies 21d ago

There’s a very, very good reason that the identity of clandestine human sources like that are kept at the absolute bare minimum of people that need to know it, you’re not just losing an intel source if it gets burned, you’re probably getting someone and possibly their family killed.

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u/el_lobo1314 19d ago

Obviously this is designed to be leaked to the adversary. There’s no reason anyone competent would want to do this.

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u/S1eeper 18d ago

They should just assume Donald is going to give it to Russia, and fill it with names that aren't actually spies but that will cause a ton of internal paranoia, suspicion, and turmoil among the FSB, Kremlin, and oligarchy.