It wasn't so long ago that Anna Chapman was posing as a real estate agent and meeting with her connections while showing houses in Forest Hills, NY. That ruse

It wasn't so long ago that Anna Chapman was posing as a real estate agent and meeting with her connections while showing houses in Forest Hills, NY. That ruse worked for years, btw, despite other parts of their operation performing terribly. It's also not so long ago when both China ('10-'12) and Iran ('19) nabbed entire spy rings operating in their countries wholesale because the supposedly secure channel established by the CIA was obviously and blatantly phoning home. Old school spycraft still has its place. I think the real lesson is that being a spy probably isn't worth it because the odds are that your handlers are shit, don't care about the risk they expose you to and will get you killed.