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* The mole hunt that eventually nabbed notorious FBI spy Robert Hanssen was focused for some time on the wrong person, a CIA agent who turned out to be innocent. The Bureau questioned the CIA officer and his family at length, until they acquired a recording of the mole and realized they'd been looking at the wrong man. Hanssen's arrest followed a few months later.
* This trope is why it's extremely difficult to convict someone in criminal court using circumstantial evidence only.
* One rather creepy variation is the [[We Have Reserves|discard]] where a less valuable mole is set up by his own team to be caught as a distraction to protect a more important one.
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