Trial and Error

How should we proceed in merging what [in Shenyang’s economic protection sector] are currently agents, informants, and confidential guardians and in designating all of them agents? The creation of a single uniform designation calls for identifying the specific utility of each agent, carrying out individual validations, and deciding on the level at which the agent is to be run. ( Note : below, informants and confidential guardians are all referred to as agents.) Agents about whom we already have a pretty good idea are to be examined in detail; agents about whom we still really do not have a good idea must be scrutinised in depth and exhaustively, and their recent records as well as their documented pasts must be appraised repeatedly. In the end, we must produce conclusive validation reviews to determine our decisions about whether to retain or to terminate.