"Aiding and Abetting"

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7. No, but yes.

The Cold War never ended, just like the McCarthy era investigations never ended, or at least not until 1980 when the VENONA project ceased.

They told us the Cold War ended as the Berlin Wall fell, but the Soviet state merely passed to private enterprise. Many higher ups remained the same. The politburo melted into a generation of oligarchs with their own security needs. The militaries of both countries are ongoing. Putin is a former KGB officer. I don't believe Russia has given up its sovereignty, nor have the old Soviets forgotten the struggle in post-war Eastern Europe.

No state of war exists, technically, but we catch their spies, they catch ours.

Treason can't happen without a declared war? The term has sure been bandied about for Snowden, Assange & Co.