I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
My full name is Jonathan.
First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.
If it is a joint return, we are instructed to print the given names of both husband and wife. But since some of the names that husband and wife give each other are hardly suited to print, we must proceed cautiously.
I never used my surname. My full name is Atishi Marlena Singh.
There are perfectly appropriate circumstances to unmask the names of people. In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.