If you’re professionally suspicious, as espionage professionals are paid to be, you’ve got to be wary of these people who seem to just love your country, your culture, who always want to snuggle up closer to it. Just what’s their agenda, you always ask yourself. If you’re a cynic.
If you’re a professional spy yourself, perhaps the whole population is one big espionage threat. On Russian television, a security expert was heard to opine that individuals “too passionate” about fostering closer relations with Russia should be flagged for a close, discerning look.
In his home town of Kirkenes, no one believes that Borg was a spy. But isn’t denial like that common? A more reflective Kirkenes resident, who liked Borg, doubted the spy-theory but asked rhetorically “Who really knows anybody when it comes down to it?”
Will we ever know what they know, the professionals who are supposed to know the spy business? Did Borg know he was putting illegal materials in the post, or was he just used?