yes, of course.
Why waste all the perfectly good intelligence, insider-political knowledge and operations ability?
“Why waste all the perfectly good intelligence, insider-political knowledge and operations ability?”
Ask the hundreds of thousands they murdered in cold blood. Ask the women they humiliated, stripped naked and shot into a muddy ditch. They had nothing that important that they shouldn’t have seen a rope.
In fact, many of them exaggerated things so they could save their necks from the rope. If you have nothing valuable, you aren’t worth saving.