For all its ambitious efforts, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service in the end wound up with a couple of hot tips about the gold market and an outed agent whose supposed predilection for kinky sex was smeared across tabloid headlines.

Things have changed in spyland since the days when Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale carried water for Fearless Leader on “Rocky and Bullwinkle Show” cartoons. Those 10 agents who copped pleas and returned home to Moscow in last week’s U.S.-Russian spy swap need to get the message to the bosses that their espionage operation is aching for an upgrade.

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