Posted on 06/29/2010 2:14:36 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
She's a "practiced deceiver."
Those are the words prosecutors used to describe Anna Chapman, a red-headed 28-year-old accused of spying for Russia.
Chapman, a divorcee who appeared in a white T-shirt and designer jeans, stood before magistrate judge Ronald Ellis in a Manhattan federal court Monday evening along with four others arrested on charges of conspiring to act as "unregistered agents of a foreign government."
Chapman's attorney, Robert M. Baum, asked the judge to dismiss the charge of conspiracy, saying his client committed no crime by communicating with a member of a foreign government and called the acts listed in the prosecution’s complaint "innocuous."
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz argued against dismissing the claims, telling the judge that Chapman was an "extraordinary agent for Russia" who had communicated via "ad hoc" wireless networks in order to communicate and conspire with a Russian government agent.
"She is in the control of a foreign government agent," said Farbiarz.
The prosecutor claimed she used a "range extender" for her laptop that communicated to an address that matched a Russian government computer. He said she met in a public place at least 10 times in the vicinity of that computer and believed a secret transfer of information was exchanged wirelessly.
Among the evidence he is prepared to offer, Farbiarz said Chapman purchased a cell phone under a false name that she used to make calls to Russia and then threw away the contract and phone charger from a car, which agents later retrieved. Her attorney fought back, saying that while she likely did make phone calls to Russia, he implied that they were to family members.
Her attorney said Chapman operated an online real estate business. She was divorced from a husband who was a citizen of the United Kingdom and had no children.
Chapman was arrested in New York City at 7:38 p.m. on Sunday night after arriving at the urgency of an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian contact.
Chapman was given a fraudulent passport that was intended to be handed over to an unnamed person, and she was told "this passport is for someone here like you but no in true name," implying an illegal undercover agent for Russia.
She was arrested while turning the fraudulent passport over to police, which the prosecution labeled as an attempt for her to make herself appear innocent. Her defense attorney argued that if she was a "brilliant spy" as the prosecution alleged, then she would not have gone to the police to turn in the passport. "They can't have it both ways," Baum told the judge.
The prosecution cited other details of her involvement to demonstrate she might be more involved with Russia that merely communicating with a member of the Russian government. Farbiarz said in one instance she was to "leave a stamp on a map that said everything went OK."
He said that during Chapman's conversations with the FBI agent posing as a Russian contact, they discussed a tactic of avoiding surveillance by authorities by "walking around for three hours" to avoid being "tailed."
Baum argued against her detainment and asked for $250,000 bond and electronic surveillance for his client, which the judge denied.
The prosecution called all of the defendants "flight risks" despite their passports being turned over to the authorities.
Farbiarz said the five defendants were "people (who) are trained together" and said there were extensive surveillance recordings that document their conspiring with unregistered foreign entities.
Chapman will appear in court on July 27. A detention hearing is set for July 1 for the four others who appeared Monday.
She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date. It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future.
This report on Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he existed.
Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their anticipated rising star.
Tom Fife
She can get her own reality show. Russian Housewives Spying on America.
When she gets out on bail she’ll be attending the next State Dinner at the White House as an honored guest.
No party crashing for her!
Not Guilty!
Guilty! Of advocating smoking.
I guess being a Russian stripper wasn’t enough?
She wouldn’t be much of a spy if she wasn’t a “practiced deceiver.”
She wouldn’t be much of a spy if she wasn’t a “practiced deceiver.”
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If ‘they’ would have tried to lure me with someone like her, rather than the dork they sent, my place in history may have been somewhat different......oh well, such is life...
—Not nearly as clandestine as I may be alluding to—
Sign her up for the next Bond movie, the one where he uses an iPhone and Facebook.
Beautiful but Guilty.
In the book A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century, published in 1913 by Israel Cohen of the Fabian Society (a follow-up to Zangwill’s Melting Pot), he wrote:
“We must realize that our Party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races, that for centuries have been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them to the program of the Communist Party ... In America, we will aim for subtle victory.
While enflaming the Negro minority against the Whites, we will instill in the Whites a guilt complex for the exploitation of the Negroes. We will aid the Negroes to rise to prominence in every walk of life, in the professions, and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the Negroes will be able to intermarry with the Whites, and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause.”
On June 17, 1957, this passage was read into the Congressional Record by Rep. Thomas G. Abernathy.
http://www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=FinalWarn04
Has she done anything that Teddy Kennedy didn’t also do?
She’d look much better with a bullet hole in her forehead!
I remember the movies we had to watch about security. Beautiful Soviet spies trying to seduce us to get secrets.
It never happened. Damn. Back then I never knew any secrets!
It never happened. Damn. Back then I never knew any secrets
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I got ‘caught up’ in the game in the mid 80’s. Was sitting in a bar in Northern VA and some dude started talking to me, just small talk etc and I never thought anything about it as I don’t ‘play well with others’ so I more or less ignored him.
Two weeks later I get a call from someone(?) suggesting I meet him at a local Hot Shoppes(?) and when I was very hesitant it was suggested I meet them or they would meet me in a rather ‘hostile’ manner. I showed up early and they were already there and introduced themselves as a couple of FBI types. I was trying to be a SA with them once I found out that I had been ‘tagged’. At the time I was laying asphalt, 25-30 years earlier he might have had something...
I offered to ‘work’ for them (FBI) but I think I appeared to willing and scared them off.
They explained to me that these guys just would run around getting names - sometimes turning ‘us’ in themselves - so they could get ‘investigated’ and let their bosses know they were trying to recruit...Understand it kind of kept them here in the ‘Big Casino’ a little longer if they were effective. Fun and games in the big city.....
My chances of being approached by our own people were much higher than the chances of being approached by a spy. About the only thing I could have told a spy was how long it took to chip and paint our deck.
I did have a couple short jobs involving classified matters later but my briefer put the Fear of God in me.
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