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I mean, they accept it in stride and aren't too embarrassed about it.

I think in one of the later Roger Moore Bond films, he was given the medal. This is fiction of course, and I think this was included as part of a wry joke that the Soviets benefited more from stealing from Silicon Valley than destroying it, but perhaps something like this could happen.

Or maybe Norm Borlaug, the scientist who helped to develop short stalk rice and was a major part of the Green Revolution.
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