The United States and Russia went back to the future this morning, trading ten uncovered Russian deep-cover agents — including three based in Arlington — for four Americans who were being held in Moscow under similar accusations. The whole deal went down in about an hour and a half on a remote tarmac at Vienna’s Schwechat Airport. The Wall Street Journal’s got all you need to know about the complaints lodged against the deported Russians, while MSNBC has a fun timeline of U.S.-Russia spy swaps throughout the years. Michael Zottoli, Patricia Mills and Mikhail Semenko were scheduled to have a hearing in federal court in Alexandria before the Feds stepped in and negotiated the swap deal; all ten of the accused Russian agents the government could round up pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to work as unregistered foreign agents this week in New York. I guess now we’ll never know whether any of the spies had asked any Virginians to show them a plutonium isolation module.