As a bonus, your worker gathers intelligence about your opponent's base.
When the United States recruits willing health workers for intelligence work, it destroys a fundamental component of the doctor-patient relationship: trust.
As a result, aid workers and intelligence officials said, the internal panic that was expected to send millions of Afghans running for the borders has not materialized.
To them, the affair sheds new light on a murky practice that they say should never take place: the recruitment of aid workers as intelligence operatives in a sensitive country like Pakistan, already awash in conspiracy theories about Western meddling.
Indeed, despite the lurid name, doctors, human-rights workers and intelligence experts consulted by the Guardian said the agency's human-experimentation rules were consistent with responsible medical practices.
Sadly, none of our politicians made any reference to the consequences and implications of recruiting aid workers as intelligence operatives.
The Republican-led House of Representatives, however, stripped out language that would have protected workers at intelligence community agencies like the CIA or NSA.
The Guardian has since vowed to publish more leaks from the former US intelligence worker Edward Snowden.
The former intelligence worker said he actually sees promise in a lot of the gear being pitched at CES this year, assuming companies take privacy and security into account.
The wildcards here are Chelsea Manning, the US soldier jailed as Bradley Manning for passing classified files to Wikileaks, who then announced her gender transition, the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowden, the US intelligence worker who passed details of government surveillance operations to the Guardian.
