Spies at risk after Mar-a-Lago controversy

The World

The risk to spies in the field is one reason why, according to the US Justice Department, the FBI took the dramatic step of searching former President Donald Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago. The department believed that some of the classified documents recovered there could have posed a serious danger to the United States’ human intelligence sources. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen was a CIA station chief in Moscow, and he explains to The World’s host Carol Hills how the handling of the documents poses a danger to those providing intelligence.

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