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I just listened to an episode of The Darknet Diaries with an ex-CIA (I think) agent and he was talking about MICE. I'm pretty sure he said the C was for Coercion, but that does include blackmail as you said.

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I could see blackmail falling under ego also

The inclusion of "ego" seems like kind of a cop-out, like, "it could be one of these three things, or... uh... literally anything else".

I've always thought it was pretty accurate and not cop-out at all. At least they didn't try to squeeze in "id"

Seriously. If ego includes sex, it ought to include money as well.

Darknet Diaries is such a good podcast. Especially the Student and Saudi Aramco episodes

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