Washington FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that the number of Russian spies operating inside the United States is still way too big despite efforts to kick them out . Russia employs not only traditional intelligence officers but also cutouts Wray said on Thursday citing a Mexican national arrested by US authorities in and accused of assisting Russian intelligence . The US in expelled Russian diplomats whom the US identified as intelligence agents as well as ordering the closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle as part of its response to Russia’s alleged use of a nerve agent to poison a former Russian spy living in the United Kingdom . Last year a Dutch intelligence agency publicly identified a Russian military intelligence officer who had studied at the prestigious Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies an elite graduate program favored by US military personnel young diplomats and future spies . US officials have made positive significant strides in reducing the size of Russian intelligence officers in the last several years to reduce the Russian intelligence officer footprint in the U.S. The US has made significant progress in kicking them out in effect, said Wray in his remarks at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. last year . The threat of Russians operating on US soil is nothing new but nothing new, said the FBI Director Wray . The Russian spies in the US has not been publicly identified by the Dutch intelligence agencies in recent years. The Russian government has been accused of using a Russian intelligence agent in recent months. It has been alleged that they have not been identified by a Russian spy in recent decades. It is not known by the American intelligence officers. It was not identified by American intelligence agencies. It’s not clear whether they have been using a foreign intelligence officers or Russian intelligence. It would not be a foreign policy. It will not be the
FBI Director Wray issues warning about number of Russian spies in the US . FBI Director
