The KGB lives on and Russian spies are still in America

Russian sleeper agents are real and still hiding in the U.S.

They never really left. That’s the part nobody talks about enough. The KGB didn’t vanish with the fall of the Soviet Union — it morphed, rebranded, and slid back into the shadows. Today, it lives on in the Russian FSB and GRU, the modern successors of the old-school Soviet intelligence apparatus. And if you think the Cold War ended, you’ve only been paying attention to the headlines, not what’s unfolding quietly beneath the surface.

Vladimir Putin didn’t rise from nowhere. He’s not just Russia’s president — he’s a former KGB officer who saw firsthand how Soviet intelligence operated, and he’s been using that same playbook to steer Russia’s foreign policy ever since. The strategy? Infiltration, subversion, deception. And it hasn’t stopped. It’s evolved.

Inside the U.S., the intelligence community keeps sounding the alarm. The Russian intelligence footprint, one official warned recently, is “still way too big.” And here’s what that means in plain English: Russian spies are still embedded here. Active. Watching. Waiting. Operating behind false identities. Some of them could be your neighbors. Sound like fiction? It’s not. Just ask the FBI agents who uncovered a deep-cover Russian spy ring in 2010. The spies had lived among us for decades. Their real names? Andrei Bezrukov and Elena Vavilova. But here, they were Donald…