Harvard expert says Russian spying is nothing new — only the technology is
Spying is a secret world that strives mightily to stay out of the public eye. But in an age of almost limitless electronic surveillance, that’s harder to do. In the past year, three men identified as Russian military intelligence officers were accused of poisoning a former spy, his daughter, and two others, using a deadly nerve agent. A Russian woman acting as a graduate student admitted to U.S. prosecutors that she was an agent for Russia while cozying up to officials in the National Rifle Association and the Republican Party. And former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe said this week that he opened an investigation into whether the president might have been acting on behalf of Russia after he fired McCabe’s boss while the FBI probed that country’s meddling in the 2016 election. Suddenly, the topic of spies and spying dominates newsfeeds. Yet much of what the public and even policymakers know...