Eleven people were arrested this week, accused of being spies in a long-term Russian operation to blend into American culture and befriend U.S. officials and defense scientists. Documents from the FBI’s 10-year investigation reveal the Russians acting just like the movie version of Russian spies: writing in invisible ink, burying money in a field, and doing “brush pasts”—when agents swap identical luggage as the pass each other, spy-movie style. They reportedly spoke in awkward coded language, such as this conversation bugged by the FBI: “You will meet this guy… Tell him Uncle Paul loves him… he will know… It is wonderful to be Santa Claus in May.” Efforts to act American may have gone too far in the eyes of their bosses, however. HQ back in Moscow was worried the alleged spies would go native and refused a request to let a couple in New Jersey buy a house; they protested they were just trying to “do as the Romans do.”