^ And it put pressure on the Tal Shiar to destroy their own base just in case someone "obligated" to report it to their superiors would stumble across their illegal research.
And on the subject of Section 31,
one of my novella-length stories alludes to 31 having agents in the Maquis, not to turn in its leaders, but to make sure the Cardassians held up their end of the bargain and see that the Maquis did not go too far in terms provoking another war.