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FBI employees enjoyed massage-parlor sex, sent nude photos of themselves to co-workers on official phones and, in one case, lied about having an affair with — and then marrying — a drug dealer.

Details of misdeeds by the nation’s top law-enforcement agency over the past two years emerged yesterday with the bad behavior leading to 85 firings.

Among the cases:

* One worker paid for sex at a massage parlor, which was “not only unprofessional, but illegal,” an internal report notes.

* During a fight, an “employee broke spouse’s e-reader in half and pointed an unloaded gun at dog’s head while dog was sitting in a spouse’s lap.”

* An employee e-mailed nude photos of herself to her ex-boyfriend’s wife. Another sent nude photos of him- or herself to co-workers, creating “office gossip.”

* A woman was fired for having an affair with a drug dealer who later married her. She lied under oath about his activities.

* A worker hid a recording device in a supervisor’s office and secretly searched the room and his boss’ briefcase in an effort to dig up whatever dirt the higher-up had on him.

Other cases included a worker repeatedly shoplifting from a grocery store, a man caught in a child-porn sting and an employee using a lost or stolen credit card to buy gas and withdraw cash.

The antics were detailed in a memo issued by the FBI as examples to employees of what not to do.

It was a response, officials said, to a “rash of sexting cases” involving FBI-issued devices.

The discipline ranged from temporary suspensions to firing.

The offenses were detailed in the last two quarterly reports sent out by the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility and first obtained by CNN. They involved 29 cases.

The names and locations were omitted, but one FBI source said, “None of them seem to be from New York.”

FBI Assistant Director Candice Will said the bureau — whose motto is “Fidelity, bravery, integrity” — was shocked by the misbehavior.

The FBI disciplined 1,045 of its more than 36,000 employees from 2010 to 2012 and fired 85.

But the bureau yesterday noted that such behavior was not unique to the FBI, saying the cases “are not unlike those that occur among employees of any other large agency or organization in the country.”