Russia makes a mountain out of a mole's wig Spycatcher: Ryan Fogle is arrested by a Russian FSB agent. Moscow: All that low-tech equipment that Russian security officers displayed for the TV cameras after detaining Ryan Fogle, the US diplomat and alleged spy, made it look as though he stepped right out of the annals of 1980s Cold War espionage. Now, the Interfax news agency is reporting that the wigs he allegedly had with him match a wig seized from Michael Sellers, a US diplomat kicked out of the Soviet Union in 1986. That wig is in the archives of the FSB, Russia's federal security service. Interfax speculated that the CIA has used the same wig supplier over the decades. No one has displayed the 1986 and 2013 wigs together. It may be a way to stifle doubts that the paraphernalia supposedly found on Mr Fogle on Monday was genuine. It all looked a bit goofy. A compass? A street atlas? The whole sequence of events reminds some Russians of a popular Cold War miniseries about KGB agents thwarting Western spy plots, called TASS is authorised to declare ... Only now, it's Interfax that is authorised to declare. Russia doesn't always give accused spies such a public send-off. An FSB officer told a television news program on Wednesday that a CIA officer, identified as Benjamin Dillon, had been quietly expelled in January. He said Russian officials had complained at the time to Americans about recruitment efforts in Russia. The FSB said it had been following Mr Fogle for the two years he worked in Moscow, Interfax reported on Thursday. It said he left the embassy on Monday evening in the back seat of a car, wearing one of his wigs, then changed to the other wig and a new set of clothes when the car stopped at a service station. He was detained as he was allegedly on his way to meet a contact. His case became a big story on Russian television, in a way that seemed calculated to embarrass the US. The simple spy equipment, the shaggy wigs and a highly incriminating letter Mr Fogle was allegedly carrying created plenty of merriment. But were they planted on him to heighten the ridicule? The FSB must be gratified that it held on to Mr Sellers' hairpiece, to enable this week's forensic wig analysis. Crucially, though, no one has displayed the 1986 and 2013 wigs together. If they are the same brand, could they in fact be the same wig, dug up out of the archives and plopped onto Mr Fogle's head just in time for the cameras, courtesy of the FSB?