I'm shocked, shocked...
We would be derelict in our national defense duties NOT to spy on everyone else.
Whether the object be to crush an army, to storm a city, or to assassinate an individual, it is always necessary to begin by finding out the names of the attendants, the aides-de-camp, and door-keepers and sentries of the general in command. Our spies must be commissioned to ascertain these. …As notations in that book also say, “an army without spies is like a man without ears or eyes”. A nation cannot exist as any kind of independent power without such means.