“敵間之來間我者，因而利之，導而捨之，故反間可得而用也；”

“敵間之來間我者，因而利之，導而捨之，故反間可得而用也；”

— Sun Tzu

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Title: Wikiquote: Sun Tzu
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

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Tzu, Sun. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Sun Tzu. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu

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