Dude. This is scary. Via Drudge, this report of Russia sending spies to the US in Soviet Union numbers.

At Los Angeles International Airport two weeks ago, FBI agents arrested an
Irish businessman they had spent a week tailing all over California's Silicon
Valley, from the offices of two electronics manufacturers in Sunnyvale to a
hotel in Mountain View and down a quiet cul-de-sac to a suburban house in San
Jose. The technology exporter, according to court papers, had purchased
sophisticated computer components in the U.S. to send to Russia through Ireland.
He now stands to be charged in mid-February with "unlawful export of 'defense
articles.'" U.S. officials point to this little-noticed case as one
manifestation of a troubling reality: although the cold war is long over, Russia
is fielding an army of spooks in the U.S. that is at least equal in number to
the one deployed by the old, much larger Soviet Union.

Russia runs more than 100 known spies under official cover in the U.S.,
senior U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement officials say. And those are just
the more easily spotted spies working under the classic guise of diplomat. An
unknown number of so-called nocs—who work under nonofficial cover as businessmen
and -women, journalists or academics—undoubtedly expand the Russian spy force.
"They're baaaaack," says a former senior U.S. intelligence official who worked
against Moscow during the cold war. "They're busy as hell, but I don't think
we've really got what it is that they're doing." The number of Russian spies in
the U.S. is especially surprising, given that it was less than four years ago
that the Bush Administration expelled 50 of them in retaliation for the
humiliating discovery that FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen had been
spying for Russia for 21 years.

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