Is It Common for Officials Working at an Embassy to Secretly Be Spies?

A reporter from a b c news named john scolly covered the state department. He had been contacted by a man calling himself alexander foeman, who was the soviet embassy's public affairs counsellor. The two had been getting together at restaurants in washington for unofficial meetings and sing back channel messages between the two governments. On black saturday, after hruschav new tuffer's message arrived, secretary of state dean rusk asked scolly to arrange an urgent meeting with foeman. According to a time line of the crisis at the national security archive, they met at four 15 p m. A good number of people working in any embassy that you name are