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Call him the man with the golden wig. ryan fogle was arrested by russian authorities this week accused of being a cia spy and trying to recruit a russian terrorism agent. joining me is a former spy, peter ernest. he's now the executive director of the international spy museum in washington, which sounds like a very interesting job. welcome to you, peter. thank you for being here. >> thank you for asking me. let's talk about what's going on. the russians laid out fogle's alleged spy kit. it didn't look that impressive. cheap looking which is. a road map. an old cell phone. come on is that all i...

Put that in perspective. is that a normal -- i mean can you believe that would have been legitimate? >> well, yes, i can believe it could be legitimate. however, we have no feel at all for the back ground of this case. i frankly think this may be a case we used to call a dangle operation. somebody was placed in the way of say our intelligence folks and it's much like what we would call a sting operation in our country. and perhaps they bit. we just don't know because none of the details have been released. >> very quickly, peter, does this kind of thing happen all the time? is there spying 24/...