Two former Russian spies, who defected to the United States after handing over troves of intelligence to both the CIA and FBI, were jobless and foundering in the Pacific Northwest after being removed from the American government’s payroll — and that simply didn’t sit well with a bunch of former U.S. Navy SEALs and intelligence officers.

Not at all.

So, the band of patriots decided to take things into their own hands.

They got together and came to the ex-spies’ aid. Where they saw a wrong (the U.S. not honoring its policy of protecting and taking care of foreign spies who spill secrets) they patched it up themselves to make a right, guiding Jan and Victorya Neumann to fruitful American family life.

This from Newsweek:

Tech entrepreneur Michael Janke, a former Navy SEAL, was so embarrassed about his government’s treatment of the Neumanns that he has hired them as consultants for his film and TV production company, Blue Pacific Studios. Janke reached out to old comrades for help and says he has gotten pledges of nearly $30,000 from several friends. The money will go into a Go Fund Me page, called the Honoring New Americans Fund, in hopes of raising $100,000 for the couple.

“It’s the right thing to do,” he says. “We take care of our own.…These are patriots in our view who risked their lives, literally, to help other Americans.”

The FBI and CIA declined to comment on the latest developments in the Neumanns’ saga. A recent Newsweek story chronicled the couple’s escape from Moscow in 2008 and their sharing of secrets with the CIA, defection to the United States and work for the FBI. The bureau cut them off the payroll in 2013. Earlier this year, the couple was on the brink of deportation to Russia—and likely prison cells—before a team of lawyers, working behind-the-scenes with the FBI and Senator Ron Wyden, reached a compromise that will keep them in the U.S.

Yet former intelligence officers say news of the U.S. government’s failure to take care of defecting foreign spies will harm its future efforts to recruit them.

“We screwed it up again,” says retired Navy SEAL captain Larry Bailey, who gathered intelligence during a combat tour in the Vietnam War. “We should have had a welcoming committee, and yet we had a bunch of bureaucrats just standing in the way.”

The former spies, who are together as a couple with a newborn, narrowly got out of (thanks to their lawyer, Judy Synder) being evicted from their Portland apartment recently. With the new team at their side, they now plan on moving to California in the coming month.

It’s mainly thanks to Janke, who is putting them up in a SoCal apartment, rent-free.

“They are doing this for their country,” Jan Neumann told Newsweek. “for what they believe is right. They are fixing mistakes of others who failed to do their jobs in the first place.”