.... His wife?
He was told she was a double agent, and had betrayed both him and her country. It was a fabrication, to test his loyalty.---------------"I am nobody's bitch! You are mine"
Cheers. I could think of less extreme ways to test loyalty.
Have you seen the movie Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade?Very similar concept and handled in a more thorough fashion. It makes sense in terms of how far someone is willing to go to pledge their fealty to their upper command.