She betrayed her country during a time of existential struggle for some commie dong, but now it’s all OK? Why wasn’t she shot?
That this happens speaks of the tendency of management to treat secretarial,janitorial,security,and other support staff as though those persons were another office machine.
That secretary or other overlooked staffer is just as human as anyone else.
Why wasn’t she executed?
Pardoned? Why? It isn’t as if anyone in her position wasn’t told repeatedly that it was illegal to steal classified information. She got a suspended sentence. I’d say that she was a lot luckier than people who ended up betrayed and killed. It wasn’t a game.
"I am totally alone, I don't have any family, I don't have any friends."
Now in her 60s, she lives in a village in the Netherlands with her 11 dogs.
Had she been a translator for the Soviet embassy in Berlin and passed secrets to the West Germans, she would have been dead since 1977. Perhaps she would have preferred that to her "amputation of the soul."
Mr. niteowl77
Well he did look like Robert Redford. Equivalent for a woman as torture for a man.
People steal classified data and pass it onto a froeign agent. They are caught and instead of being thrown in jail or executed, are given suspended sentences. And they are COMPLAINING about their treatment?