No, if you're a country's spymaster then you probably have some spies that report directly to you, but there's a chain of command and deliberately isolated cells that mean that the majority of actual spies are outside of the specific awareness of the spymaster, or aren't identifiable.

Also, if the spymaster is captured, you're already fucked because it means they were able to kidnap a top official from the capitol.

And if there is a chain of command with one person at the top, it's probably a great deal of effort to go through the theater of trying to conceal to ultimately keep a secret that isn't very difficult to figure out because the spymaster still needs to be working in constant active collaboration with various officers, etc. Also, the title usually isn't public-facing anyway, not that it really matters.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You seem to know a lot about being a spymaster... cat-confused

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have brainrot from reading and listening to stuff about the NKVD, CIA, and so on.

[–] Edie@hexbear.net 7 points 4 weeks ago

I want some of that brainrot please