The difference is that this time, they had help from inside. They were coordinating with assets on the inside.
I that right? I guess you have never heard of:
" Klaus Fuchs – German born Fuchs worked as a scientist for the U.S. government, playing a key role on the Manhattan Project, which led to the creation of the first atomic bomb. Unfortunately he was also working for the KGB, and passed along information about bomb technology and the location and number of American nuclear weapons stockpiles. The information he leaked directly led to the Soviet development of nuclear weapons. He was captured by the British government, and served a 14 year jail sentence.
David Henry Barnett – Barnett was a CIA officer who was a CIA officer for a couple of years before leaving to start his own business in Jakarta Indonesia. His plans didn’t pan out, and finding himself in massive debt he decided to sell the Soviets the names of 30 CIA operatives as well as information about CIA operations and informants in Indonesia and South Korea. He earned $92,000 for his double life, eventually moving back to the United States and applying for jobs on the Senate and House intelligence committees and the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. He was ultimately rehired by the CIA in 1979, and less than a year later was outed by a CIA double agent, sentenced to 18 years in jail and then paroled in 1990.
Aldrich Ames – Ames began his career in the spy game working for the CIA recruiting Russians to work as double agents. After a messy divorce and a massive amount of debt, Ames decided to turn his life around by selling information to the Soviets. He sold out a number of his CIA buddies and a slew of his contacts in Russia for a pretty sum of $2.7 million. He passed CIA lie detector tests in 1986 and 1991, but was eventually arrested in 1994. He is still in prison serving out a life sentence.
Harold James Nicholson – Nicholson has the distinction of being the highest ranked government official to be found guilty of espionage. He served as CIA Branch Chief in locations around the world, ending up working at the Branch Chief in the Counter-terrorism Center Directorate of Operations. In 1995 he failed three routine polygraph tests and was placed on FBI surveillance, where he was taped meeting with Soviet intelligence officials while on assignment overseas. He was arrested at Dulles Airport in 1996 while Nicholson was on his way to Switzerland to give the Russians a bundle of photographs of top secret documents. In all he received $300,000 from the Russians for his secrets, and was sentenced to 23 years in prison which he is still serving. In 2008 he was sentenced to eight more years behind bars, after it was discovered that his son had been meeting with Russian officials to collect back payments from his father’s spy work.
Ana Montes – Montes worked as a senior analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency specializing in Cuban relations. unfortunately she was too good at relating to Cuba, sending the government there the names of four American spies. She also leaked the location of a secret U.S. military training camp in El Salvador to Cuban intelligence officials, which directly lead to the camp being attacked by Cuban backed guerrillas, causing a loss of American life. She was sentenced in 2001 to 25 years in prison which she is currently serving out."
You can apologize for your mistakes now.