Washington -- Even as the United States and Russia are cooperating to resolve international crises and track militant Islamic groups, Moscow is working at least as hard at stealing U.S. military and industrial secrets as during the Soviet era, current and former intelligence officials say.
Moscow's spies operate under a larger variety of covers than in Soviet days, experts say, and their morale is the highest since the mid-1980s. The Russian diaspora has created a pool of emigres, some of whom can be bribed, cajoled or blackmailed into helping.
"The Russian target is still very much there, still doing the things they did years ago," said Michael Donner, chief of counterintelligence for the FBI, in an interview. "We are scrambling to keep up."
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