At the end of the scandal, with Ross Newland's identity uncovered and the episode becoming a major embarrassment for the U.S. and Argentina in the worldwide intelligence community, the CIA removed its Station Chief from Argentina, and said they were going to permanently move their offices to Montevideo, Uruguay because of their problems working together with SIDE. Also, as a result of this, the head of the SIDE counter-intelligence service, retired Major "Alejandro Brousson" was expelled because of the American diplomatic pressure to punish the responsible of an act they considered ""a violation of game rules"" (in the intelligence community, that is).