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How do you know he was not an spy?

Spies don't have the name "spy" on the forehead, but are people that serve their country obtaining information from another (preferably)with some excuse or alibi.

History tells us that anyone could be a spy, from sailors to tailors, including prostitutes.

I had family members in former Soviet Republics. Some of them risked their lives running away. That someone intelligent was so naive to not understand the danger is unconceivable for me. Norwegians knew for sure and told him.



"A naïve tourist" and "spy pretending to be a naïve tourist" are hard to distinguish without further data - it is impossible to tell either way.


It's inconceivable someone could be so foolish and thus he was a spy? That seems like an even more outlandish theory than 'unusually naive person'.


Spies never cross borders. It's always some "innocent tourists backpacking"...




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