Masih Alinejad and Aldrich Ames's Sources Defied Their Regimes. Is That a Death Sentence?

Masih Alinejad, a journalist and human rights activist who has spoken out against Iran's government, was the target of what the Justice Department described as a murder-for-hire plot directed by Iran in New York. Carlisle Rivera was sentenced to fifteen years for his role, and I ask retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke whether defying a regime is enough to make someone a target for murder.

Robin ran the FBI's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program. We also look at Aldrich Ames, the CIA officer whose information, a Justice Department review found, led to at least ten CIA and FBI sources being exposed and executed after he gave it to the KGB. Prosecutors say Farhad Shakeri offered Rivera $100,000 to locate and kill Alinejad, and Shakeri remains at large.

I ask Robin who else is in danger when names get passed along, including people who never had anything to do with the spying, and how someone tells himself he's just passing along information when people could die. These are separate cases from Nvidia, and I ask whether anything reported in the Nvidia case points to a safety risk or whether that's getting ahead of the facts.

Robin also tells me what it's like to be the agent a source is counting on to keep their family safe.

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