FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Thursday that the number of Russian spies operating inside the United States is
"The Russian traditional counterintelligence threat continues to loom large," Wray said during public remarks at the Spy Museum in Washington. "The Russian intelligence footprint, and by that I mean intelligence officers, is still way too big in the United States and something we are constantly bumping up against and trying to block and prevent and disrupt in every way we can."
The U.S. in 2018 expelled 60 Russian diplomats whom the U.S. 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.
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