Not sure a spy would make a good officer anyway.
Certainly the Air Force wanted to clean up problems in the Cadet Corps, but putting pimp in among them would not make that pimp a good officer.
What happens when the word got out about this informant and he had to deal with those officers in his every day duties. Nobody likes an informant, no matter how special his duties were.
In the Army, a fellow Lieutenant had been an informer in the past. He was enlisted, and worked his way into a group that dealt drugs (I never understood this, since we were subject to random drug testing).
When I knew him, he had re-invented himself, having gone to OCS and becoming an officer...he was my XO. He was arrogant, lazy, incompetent, was incapable of interacting with his peers or subordinates...terrible officer.