Remember a few days ago when the FBI caught a ring of Russian spies. I’m sure Fox News was all a twitter over it.
Actually, according to espionage journalist Davie Wise, it was much ado about nothing.
And how many secrets from the White House, the Pentagon or the C.I.A. could a Russian spy living in Yonkers or Montclair, N.J., acquire? Unless some future bombshells are disclosed, it sounds as though the S.V.R. did not get much for its investment.
So after years of hard work on both sides (the Russians and the US), what did was gotten for it. Apparently not much. But as Wise writes, “. . . take heart: cold wars come and go, but Russian spies are here forever.”