(Could even be several reading this thread right now . .)
Little boy: "What a dual-use technology daddy?
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As the FBI has remade itself in the wake of 9/11 into a counterterrorism agency, the bureau's long-standing counterintelligence mission has been bumped down a notch on the priority list. During this time, Russia has been among the U.S.'s rivals most aggressively exploiting the opening to build up its spying capabilities. Also, it has been using liberalized immigration rules for Russians, instituted after the cold war, to install nocs.
In addition to embassy-based spies, Russia—along with China, Pakistan, Iran and any number of other countries, including U.S. allies—relies on many hard-to-trace front companies, often run through third-party countries, to acquire secrets and dual-use technology. "We think there are thousands of these companies," a senior U.S. official said.
The bredth and depth of Soviet/Russian penetration of the US boggles the mind. For an in depth look at just how badly our CIA (and FBI) are penetrated, I would like to suggest FReepers read the folling articles VERY CAREFULLY:
The Plot to Hijack the CIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279729/posts
Soviet Moles in the CIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1224848/posts
Was Angleton Right?
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/archived/amesalone.htm
Was Angelton Right About Moles?
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/question_angleton.htm
Angleton's Mole Remedy
http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/question_angleton2.htm
>>>THEY'RE BAAAAAAAAACK
When did they leave? NY/NJ has had the criminal Russian/Ukrainian international laundering system going for YEARS.
The criminal Ukrainians even work directly WITH the criminal Muslims.
That needs some editing. In addition to embassy-based, CATHOLIC CHURCH based and NON-PROFIT based spies.... Ok, that is better.
Lunev concurs with the extant thesis that the fall of Communism requires quotation marks [viz. "fall of Communism"].
Bill Gertz, Treachery: How America's Friends and Foes Are Secretly Arming Our Enemies, Regnery, 2004, indicates Russia has actively aided Iran, Iraq, Syria et al.
David A. Vise, The Bureau and the Mole: The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, The Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History, Atlantic, 2002, exposes the Bureau as ineffectual donut-eaters who blew repeated opportunities to catch this flaming a-hole.
It's nice to see the agency will now devote some attention to the shocking problem of gentlemen seeking to read other gentlemen's mail.
This is the gang who let Edward Lee Howard get away, although he wore a sign around his neck: I'm Here, I'm Disgruntled, I'm Turning.
The FBI has been very good at targeting innocent Americans: Richard Jewel, Stephen Hatfill, Colleen Rowley; less effective at actually closing cases.
It helped that Kaczynski's brother ratted him out, cutting a decade off that capture.
Awfully sporting of Nunn-Lugar to fund securing Russia's nuclear stockpile and recycling its obsolete reactors, thus freeing those fungible rubles for spanking-new Topol-M road-mobile and sub-launched weapons.
Memo to beltway airbags: stop providing the noose for Lenin to hang capitalists; use same to hang spies.