I mean, a lot of them probably are, or at least had overtures to flip them. Giving an (at least semi-)hostile foreign government leverage over your is one of t

I mean, a lot of them probably are, or at least had overtures to flip them. Giving an (at least semi-)hostile foreign government leverage over your is one of the very first steps in tradecraft to flipping someone and turning them into an asset. I feel like believing that there would be no effort on the part of the Russian government to turn these people into assets is fairly naive.