Posted by
EWRoss on Monday, June 08, 2009 7:00:00 AM
Last week two more Americans were arrested on charges of spying for a hostile foreign government. This time it was retired State Department employees Walter Myers and his wife Gwendolyn. According to the Justice Department they were recruited in 1979 and were motivated by a desire to help the Cuban government. FBI agent Robert Hansen, another long-term mole, worked for Soviet then Russian intelligence and was arrested in February 2001. He approached the GRU (the soviet military intelligence agency) in 1979 and offered his services. DoD employees Greg Bergersen, arrested in February 2008, and James Fondren, arrested in May 2009, spied for the Chinese intelligence, illegally providing classified documents to a Chinese man they believed was Taiwanese, thinking they were helping Taiwan. The simple fact is that the overwhelming majority of Americans, like the Myers, Hansen, Bergersen, and Fondren, who spy on their country have top-secret security clearances and volunteer to commit espionage.