The secret’s out: Tony D’Souza on espionage and human weakness
‘The KGB knew how to exploit human weakness.’
How do you recruit a spy? According to the former Soviet security service, the KGB, the best way is to appeal to their human weaknesses. It used the acronym MICE: M for money, I for Ideology, C for Compromise, and E for Ego. It turns out to be a very useful index of human weakness.
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