Russian Beauty Had Beastly Intentions, U.S. Prosecutors Charge (Secret agent for Russia in NYC)

FOX NEWS ^ | 06/29/2010

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Anna Chapman has the face of an angel. A stylish redhead with model looks and a master's degree in economics, the 28-year-old lived the New York high-life, renting a $2,100-a-month apartment and hobnobbing with Manhattan's social elite.

She also was a "practiced deceiver" who worked as an agent for the Russian government, attempting to secretly transmit information from her laptop computer to a Russian government computer, according to U.S. federal prosecutors.

Chapman, along with 10 others, was charged Monday with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction.

According to two criminal complaints filed in U.S. District Court in New York, Chapman allegedly met with an FBI official posing as a Russian agent on June 26 to receive, and later deliver, a fraudulent passport to an unnamed individual who she believed was also a Russian agent.

"Are you ready for this step?" the undercover agent asked her inside a New York coffee shop.

"S---, of course," Chapman allegedly replied.

Upon receiving the fraudulent passport, investigators followed Chapman to Brooklyn, where she was allegedly seen discarding a Verizon cell phone registered under the name Irine Kutsov," residing at "99 Fake Street."

Chapman was arrested a day later while turning over the fraudulent passport to police -- a detail her attorney, Robert M. Baum, said shows she is not the experienced so-called spy that prosecutors claim her to be.

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facebook picture of ANNA CHAPMAN, who was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general



Chapman and 10 others were arrested with ties to a plot straight from a Cold War era spy movie.

Anna Chapman's story is unfolding like a plot straight out of a James Bond flick.

The beautiful 28-year-old divorcee who says she ran an online real estate company worth $2 million, was one of 11 accused Russian secret agents arrested by FBI agents.

Prosecutors say they were all part of a ring of old-school spies that answered to "Moscow Central"and lived deep undercover as ordinary suburbanites.

Chapman’s Facebook page, on which she also uses the Russian form of her name "Anya,"reveals a photo album of sexy profile pictures that could easily be headshots in a casting call to find the next Bond girl.

Chapman poses in a slinky animal print mini dress in one shot casually holding a cigarette, and a fiery form-fitting scarlett cocktail dress in several others.

The page appears to be still active - a friend posted a link to a Washington Post story detailing her arrest on Tuesday.

The "about me"section features this credo: "If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it."

Five of the suspects, including Chapman, were arrested in New York. Chapman's alleged missions, described in an 18-page court complaint, read like the pages of a spy thriller.

According to the document, she bought a cell phone under the alias "Irine Kustov" and the phony address "99 Fake Street."

FBI agents found the Verizon phone contract and Motorola charger along with packaging for calling cards that can be used for international calls in a trash can after Chapman was arrested, according to the complaint.

The court document also details Chapman's interactions with an undercover FBI agent who fed her instructions for preparing a fake passport to transfer to another female spy.

She was instructed to hold a magazine a certain way to signal the other spy to initiate contact.

Chapman is quoted in the complaint repeating back the following instructions: "Okay, tomorrow at 11, I am going to be sitting at one of the benches, she is going to ask me if she saw me in California. I am going to say no, it was in the Hamptons. I will take the documents, tell her to sign. I will hold the journal, this is how she will recognize me."

She was arrested before the mission was carried out. Chapman appeared in Manhattan federal court on June 28, 2010 with four other alleged spies.

"The evidence here is overwhelming. It is simple. It is strong," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz the hearing.

"This is a Russian agent!" he said, gesturing dramatically at Chapman. Farbiarz went on to call her a "practiced deceiver"and an "extraordinary agent."

The Russian government downplayed the arrests, calling the allegations "baseless and improper."

Beginning as early as 2000, the accused spies were watched meeting on benches in Central Park and Brooklyn, plotting in a Queens restaurant, exchanging computer files wirelessly in a Times Square Starbucks, smoothly switching bags in the Forest Hills, Queens, Long Island Rail Road station and burying money in the ground upstate.

Aside from the New York area, the alleged spies operated in Boston, Seattle and Arlington, Va.

[Artemis Webb]

She’s hot.
She still needs to go to prison for the rest of her life...but she’s hot.

[I cannot think of a name]

“and the phony address “99 Fake Street.”

woooo dogies - however do they figure these things out. Sure would have fooled me.

[Raycpa]

Not guilty.

[karnage]

I believe the FR phrase is: NOT GUILTY!

[DarthVader]

She’s hot but needs to be shot. As all spies should be.

[LibFreeUSA]

Would have loved to have done the arrest and the full pat-down!

[benewton]

Not guilty.

I agree, but she should be put to work!

[DariusBane]

It is my patriotic duty to guard her in House Arrest. My house, my arrest.

[RightOnline]

Yeah, I know. I had to stare at it for a few, mind you, but something eventually clicked in my head that made me sit back and say “hmmmmm.....”, ya know?

[Raycpa]

"Okay, tomorrow at 11, I am going to be sitting at one of the benches, she is going to ask me if she saw me in California. I am going to say no, it was in the Hamptons. I will take the documents, tell her to sign. I will hold the journal, this is how she will recognize me."

Wasn't this an episode on Hogan's Hero's?

[Beowulf9]

I suppose I have no imagination but what would the Russian’s have to spy on in NYC? Or Queens? Or Boston?

[Scythian]

I guess she blew her cover?

[C19fan]

Is Chapman an alias or was the hottie an America?

[surfer]

Wasn’t she on 24?

[SeekAndFind]

Is Chapman an alias or was the hottie an America?

It's got to be an alias. Chapman is an Anglo-Saxon family name (unless she's really English who's spying for Russia. But her looks are not Saxon to me ).

Chapman is a derivative of the Saxon word Caepman which in turn originated from the Old German word choufman or koufman. It means a market man or a merchant.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Maybe you could volunteer to put her under house arrest?

[swain_forkbeard]

“Not guilty.”

I need to see the entire BODY of evidence before rendering a verdict.

[El Cid]

I suppose I have no imagination but what would the Russian’s have to spy on in NYC?

The secret on how to turn 100 Million dollars into 1000 dollars?

She could have gone to D.C. and learned from the real masters on how to vaporize trillions of dollars in no time at all...

[usurper]

My house, my arrest.

I am willing to apply 5 years of administrative punishment to her at my house at no cost to the taxpayer. Bathe her and bring her to me.