They might provide extra budget for agent recruitment.

Deutsch's legacy from his time in England is to have come up with a highly successful agent recruitment strategy.

In 2001, after holding the record for the longest Russian double agent recruitment in FBI history (twenty-five years), Len reached the mandatory retirement age.

Its requests for action, surveillance and agent recruitment were routinely turned down by C.I.A. station chiefs abroad, according to a former C.I.A. officer assigned to it.

"Hostile intelligence services begin the agent recruitment process by scrupulously collecting information on persons who are connected to industry, RDT&E laboratories, government institution staffs, military bases, and design organizations."

He put restraints on what he considered to be politically incorrect agent recruitment and sought to encourage more diversity at the Agency in order to include more women and minorities in its ranks.

After Penkovsky's execution in 1963, Kisevalter continued to be involved in agent recruitment and handling, including the cases of KGB walk-ins Anatoliy Golitsyn and Yuri Nosenko.

In 1944 Katz was put in charge of handling agent recruitments from the New York City TASS office headed by Vladimir Pravdin, former rezident of the NKGB in New York.