What? I don’t understand.
Spies are usually able to blend in with the local population. And theres plenty of people who have turned spy for an enemy nation.
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Yup. spies result from a large variety of motivations ranging from financial - $ - to misguided patriotism (we'll punish those libs by leaking info) to outright ideological devotion - whether that's to making sure there's a level playing field by leaking nuclear secrets (Fuchs) or helping the soviets outright due to indoctrination like the Rosenbergs....
racism is rarely the sole motivation for espionage and I'd say it's on the lower end of possible motivations in terms of occurence. A fun read is The Second Oldest Profession, tho it's dated.
People that are too focused on race or a sense of what makes someone different might overlook spies that look like them and talk like them.
Nice showerthought.