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[Stranger Things]Was Chief Hopper's offer to Doctor Brenner genuine? [spoilers]

In episode eight, Chief Hopper offered up Eleven to Doctor Brenner for access to the Upside-Down. He said once he and Joyce had retrieved Will from the Upside-Down, Doctor Brenner could have Eleven and the conflict would be finished.

Apparently, there wasn't any trickery involved.  Hopper led the Institute right to Eleven's location.  For someone who lost his own daughter, it seems really out of character for Hopper to just sell out one child in hopes of rescuing another.  

Since Eleven and the Demi-Gorgon ended up straight-up murdering everyone from the Institute that went to the high school, and Eleven subsequently vanished, we never got a chance to see things would have played out.  Was Hopper playing it straight, or was he trying to trick the Institute?
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I think Hopper was a realist. He knew that if the U.S. Government wanted El, there wasn't a whole lot he could do about it in the long term. But in the *short* term, he could tell them what they were likely to find out anyway in exchange for a chance to save Will, which they otherwise wouldn't get. In his mind, he wasn't really sacrificing El since he was positive they'd eventually find her anyway.