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If, in fact, 50 Russians are ultimately asked to leave the country, "that would be a huge number" in such a situation, said James Bamford, an author and expert on national security and espionage. As Moscow and Washington have traded allegations of spying over the years, each side has routinely expelled a handful of diplomats from its embassies after periodic flare-ups, he noted. "There's almost a hiccup effect," Bamford said. "It almost always happens, but it's usually only two or three people" expelled.
After Wednesday's developments, he said, "everybody's waiting for the other shoe to drop: What do the Russians do in response?" One possibility would be for Moscow to simply follow Washington step for step and expel U.S. diplomats in Russia as personas non grata, he said. But the more "dangerous" course would be if Russia were to try and bring espionage charges against U.S. diplomats, which could lead to their imprisonment, he said. That was the fear several weeks ago, when a private U.S. citizen in Moscow on a Fulbright scholarship was jailed on possible espionage charges for what appeared to be "a run-of-the-mill drug arrest," Bamford said.
