The TV Show Americans, is based on a real-life story of ten Russian Sleeper Agents, and the events did take place in this Century, not that long ago. Might there have been more than ten agents...
In 2010, Ten Russian Sleeper Agents were arrested in the United States after a decade-long FBI operation. In 2013, Joe Weisberg made a TV show about them: The Americans.
Though the acclaimed spy drama takes place in the early 1980s, when US-Soviet relations were on a razor’s edge, it’s suddenly the most topical series on American television. Weisberg, a former CIA operative, based his show on the 2010 spy ring, but decided to set it in the past, because—back in 2013—people no longer considered America’s relations with Russia to be fraught. People reactions were both shocked and simultaneously shrugged at the [Russian sleeper agent] scandal because it didn’t seem like we were really enemies with Russia anymore.
We know better now. Does Russia Still Have Spies Embedded in Our Political System, are we sure that we got them all back in 2010?