Burns: The director of the CIA has to turn traitors into heroes. When the CIA goes overseas to recruit someone to spill the beans (a CIA Agent), the director of the CIA has to know about it and approve it in some manner.
Burns: They have made the case why the American government must forget or not care that they have betrayed one country and happily welcomed them into a new life.
Burns: The American government has to pay to protect that person and their family for the traitor's life.
Burns: The hard limit for receiving this was 50 people a year. The CIA director’s office is responsible for justifying this to the US government. Recently, however, that limit of 50 people was removed.
Burns: This is what they do all day. It does not deal with internal traitors because those are hard to come by. It deals with the people that the CIA has to turn into traitors.
Burns: Can you imagine if one day some other country came to you and said, “Hey, if you betray America for us, we’ll set you up with a new citizenship and change your name?”
Burns: You’d never do that, right? What country would you want to move to that isn’t an ally of America? You would not be protected from whomever would be sent to hunt you down (most likely by the DOJ btw)
