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2010 FBI Illegals Program Arrests

The arrests made by the FBI in 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, which targeted Russian sleeper agents in the US.

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Which countries have historically used sleeper agents and what methods do they employ?

Sleeper agents have been a recurrent instrument of statecraft from the 20th century to today, used most prominently by Soviet and Russian services but also deployed or feared from Western intelligence...

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FBI and ICE raid Georgia judge

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