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Spy in a wig: Russia has expelled an American diplomat, claiming he is a CIA agent caught red-handed trying to recruit a Russian agent. Authorities said they apprehended Ryan C. Fogle, listed as the third secretary in the U.S. Embassy, wearing a blond wig and carrying “special technical equipment” and $130,000 in cash. They said he had offered an intelligence officer who specializes in Islamist terror groups in Chechnya and Dagestan up to $1 million a year for information. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said the alleged spying attempt was in “the spirit of the Cold War” and “raises serious questions for the American side,” since the U.S. and Russia recently agreed to share information about such groups in the wake of the Boston bombing by two ethnic Chechens. The State Dept. had no comment.

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