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Report: Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files Sunday June 14 th , 2015  at  4:34 PM 1 Share The headquarters of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in central London. (Michael Crabtree/Reuters) By  Reuters   June 14 at 2:11 PM LONDON —  Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported. MI6, Britain’s version of the CIA, has removed agents from certain countries, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials at the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Office (interior ministry) and security services. Snowden downloaded more than 1.7 million secret files from security agencies in the United States and Britain in 2013, and he leaked details about mass surveillance of phone and Internet communicati