They are pleased at the success of the operation and at the discovery that Russia is still spending huge amounts of money and effort on planting "sleeper agents" in America, but to no apparent effect.
2. "Open borders let Isil into Britain, warns US spy chief" (Telegraph front page, 27 April); "Isis has taken advantage of Europe's open borders to plant sleeper cells in the UK, Germany and Italy, head of American intelligence warns" (Mail Online, 27 April); "EU free movement has allowed ISIS sleeper cells into the UK, warns security chief" (Express, 27 April).
In the 1940s and 50's, Mexico began to plant sleeper cells in the United States.
Let the army fight Hezbollah then, they are the real terrorists, planting sleeper cells around the world and causing explosions here in Tripoli".
But their fear, heightened after the bombings in Madrid in March, is that Al Qaeda or some affiliated terrorist organization has planted a sleeper cell in this part of the city.
Sergei Skripal and Igor Sutyagin were traded, along with two other Russians, for 10 deep cover "sleeper" agents planted by Moscow in the US.
The Taliban rushed to take responsibility for the attack, claiming the gunman was a sleeper agent planted to kill NATO soldiers.
According to Israeli intelligence, Iran and Hezbollah have also planted roughly 40 terrorist sleeper cells across the globe, ready to hit Israeli and Jewish targets if Iran deems it necessary to retaliate.
I was on vacation when the story broke that 11 Russians had been charged as sleeper agents planted in America by Moscow's spy agency to gather intelligence on the United States and to recruit moles who could gain access to our top secrets.
That means the real threat to U.S. networks comes not from sleeper software planted by state-sponsored cyberspies, but from a combined attack of atoms and bits, or from cyber-enabled radical groups or criminals engaged in what's more properly called "cyberterrorism".
