No doubt, subterfuge and intrigue are valuable skills in the private sector, but I really do think that people distrusting a person for life is one of the liabilities that must be borne when a person decides to work for a clandestine agency - especially one that has a long history of covert usurpation of institutions for its own purposes.

Intelligence agencies cannot, ever, be trusted by private citizens. The corruption of government begins with its secrets. That's the nature of the job, and its one of the reasons why there is a very strong motto prevalent in the spook industry: "you can never leave the company".