At first sight it seemed a triumph for Russia's spycatchers and a humiliation for America's CIA. A junior diplomat at the embassy in Moscow, Ryan Fogle, was caught red-handed and yellow-wigged trying to recruit a Russian official dealing with the troubled north Caucasus region. The young American was wrestled to the ground, filmed with his toys-wads of cash, a compass, knife, even a map of Moscow—and then handed over, plus a stern rebuke, to American officials summoned late at night to the headquarters of the fsb, Russia's internal-security service.
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