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Moving Beyond MICE: A Policy Review of Spy Motivation and Influence Frameworks

Executive Summary The MICE framework has long shaped how intelligence officers, counterintelligence analysts, and insider-threat teams think about human betrayal. The acronym stands for Money, Ideology, Coercion or Compromise, and Ego or Excitement. It is simple. That is part of its appeal. It is also part of its problem.