Isn't it hypocritical to see the Soviet Union as bad for executing a spy when this guy's [1] been imprisoned by the US for nearly half his life for the same thing?
If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's side you're on. It's still good. Unless there's some sort of neutral decider about which countries it's "noble" to spy on and which it's bad.
There's a difference between someone dying of a 9mm cerebral hemorrhage in Lubyanka after being disappeared and someone getting a fair trial and sentence in a Western Democracy.
> If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's side you're on
If spying is good, it doesn't matter who's side you're on. It's still good. Unless there's some sort of neutral decider about which countries it's "noble" to spy on and which it's bad.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Pelton