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Chapman, you may recall, was the femme fatale rolled up by the FBI in the early summer of 2010 with nine other "illegals" – all working undercover for the SVR, Moscow's foreign intelligence service. Their job was to gather U.S. political and economic secrets for the motherland.

This isn't the whole story, interestingly. One of the "illegals", by the name of Vicky Pelaez (she also had a Russian husband, worked for a Spanish language far-leftist newspaper here in the United States. Her primary function was in creating anti-American propaganda that was very similar to Alex Jones' conspiracy theories, except her focus was on finding ways to blame the United States for everything bad that happens in South America. People understand spies as trying to steal secrets. For Russia, stealing secrets is only one part of it. The rest is in influencing opinion, subverting and controlling your opposition, things of that nature. BTW, this woman now works for a Russian newspaper in Moscow. I learned about her because I noticed that Alex Jones' propaganda was identical to hers back during the last farcical elections in Russia. She was accusing the United States of attempting to delegitimize the traditional Russian voter fraud, which is highly cherished in that country.