You wanna wait to see additional context. Sometimes allegations are completely made up, sometimes there's an alternative explanation that isn't obvious.
What are some recent examples where they falsely accuse someone of espionage?
I don't know off the top of my head for a very recent one, but the case of Wen-Ho Lee in 1999 comes to mind.
The Liberty City 7
A. Daoud
Michigan Militia Assassination
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They made multiple drops, one for $30,000, another for $70,000, following months of correspondence. There's plenty of context if you read the link -- unless you are for some reason accusing the FBI of wholesale fabrication of a story leading to the arrest of two relatively unimportant scientists.