Spying may be one of the two oldest professions, but unlike the other one it has changed quite a lot over the years, and continues to do so.
During the quarter-century since the end of the Cold War, the main preoccupation of our intelligence agencies has not been with classic espionage by the Soviet Union, or with identifying new Philbys operating on their behalf.
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