Why espionage is to powerful

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To use Esp on another race you don't have to send over your people you just buy of the others guys people to do the dirty work for you.
Remember that you have got trade links to the other nation, even if you aren't trading with them yet.
The chance for a covert agent to cross the border and set up a cell.
That sort of thing.

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How exactly do you bribe a Borg drone? ;-) How do you have someone infiltrate the collective without becoming subjected to its will?

I'm sure there are other examples of races like this.

I think being able to turn off intel for a race would be an interesting trait. Imagine the research you can do if you don't have to build any intel centers or do any of that research...