During the cold war (and shortly after), this type of activity would be exactly what red-blooded Americans would say differentiated us from Russia (not hiding i

During the cold war (and shortly after), this type of activity would be exactly what red-blooded Americans would say differentiated us from Russia (not hiding it, but doing it at all). Americans have constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure by the government. These days you could probably drop the country and year and have trouble differentiating tactics used by the US and Russia.