We speak of terrorists and never of spies. We concern ourselves with those who blow up buildings and neglect agents of death who would never have us know they are killing anyone.
We worry of terrorists and gangsters slipping across out borders, but not of the spies. Back in my day, it would have been the spies we feared infiltrating into America. Why no word these days about what we are doing to protect our borders against them sneaking in?
Now, here we have a major investigation in the news each day about Russian interference, and we don't stop to wonder if their agents are here? We don't say, Gotta keep 'em out, same as we do of the terrorists?
Russia has been at this game a long time. They are undoubtedly good at it. Perhaps, China also. If they are concerned about influencing our elections, that might be no more than a sign they have taken their spy-and-influence game to a higher level. It would hardly mean they have abandoned their old game, but, rather, they have polished and refined it. If they had operatives in America in the '60s, they might well have even more and better trained ones today.
They may well have stepped up their game, while we slept.
Communist operatives? Communist agitators? That Russia is no longer considered a communist nation, does not mean their operatives have gone away. Nor does it mean they no longer are harmful.
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