If we had done the same crap in Finland during the Cold War, Soviet Tanks would have rolled in the next day and we wouldn’t be here discussing things.
How do you know the CIA wasnt running ops in Finland?
It was a natural place to talk to people crossing the Finnish-Soviet border.
Case in point, Anatoly Golitsyn, KGB defector (look him up), passed the lines via Helsinki, 1961. Along with his family.