AP – With the conclusion of the biggest spy swap since the Cold War, the U.S. has defused a thorny diplomatic problem quickly and cleanly — and avoided damaging recent efforts to improve relations with Russia. And Moscow has escaped further embarrassment over a group of spies that over the years apparently had little if any success in ferreting out any useful secrets.
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Spy swap brings swift end to diplomatic problem
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Ten Russians allegedly involved in intelligence gathering where expelled from the United States Thursday night, leaving on a flight chartered by the Russia government to Vienna, Austria, a federal law enforcement official told CNN.
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