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Kremlin reportedly dispatches contract killer to US to pursue 'traitor' colonel, claims reputable Moscow newspaperA contract killer has been dispatched to assassinate the Russian double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman and nine other spies in the United States this spring, according to reports in Moscow. "We know who he is and where he is," a high-ranking Kremlin source told the reputable Kommersant newspaper. "You can have no doubt – a Mercader has already been sent after him." Ramón Mercader was the KGB-hired Spanish communist who was sent to kill Leon Trotsky with an icepick in Mexico in 1940.

t seems that the story about the hot Russian spy will never end, this time she shocks the readers of a popular in Russia MAXIM magazine.

<p>NEW YORK (WPIX) — Anna Chapman appears to be the spy making the most out of her overnight celebrity following her arrest and ultimate deportation for her part in a Russian spy ring. A scantily clad Chapman, 28, is featured on next month's cover of Russian's edition of Maxim magazine, editors revealed Tuesday. The red-headed spy dons black lingerie, diamond earrings, a silver automatic and a coy yet sexy smile.</p>

Anna Chapman, the Russian spy deported from the US, is living the life of a celebrity at home, defying espionage convention and casting doubt over whether she was ever a real spy. Clad in a hot red jacket and tight-fitting black slacks, Ms. Chapman was today spotted smiling and waving at the former Soviet space launch center Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, as she attended an exclusive farewell ceremony for Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka and American astronaut Scott Kelly. The team later blasted off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz TMA-M space vehicle. Since being repatriated...

Christine O'Donnell doll shows Tea Party darling dressed as a witch BY Christina Boyle DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 12:52 PM Christine O'Donnell's experiments with witchcraft have come back to haunt her - in the form of a 12-inch plastic action figure. The Delaware Senate candidate has been immortalized by herobuilders.com as a black-clad witch, complete with a long flowing cape and tall pointy hat. The figure is the latest creation from the doll manufacturers who last paid homage to Russian spy Anna Chapman. The Tea Party-backed politician also joins the ranks of other public figures with...

WASHINGTON — When Aleksandr Zaporozhsky, one of four Russians delivered to the West in this week’s spy swap, joins his family in the United States, it will be only the latest unexpected twist in a classic story of espionage and deception. For several years in the 1990s, Mr. Zaporozhsky, a colonel in Russian intelligence who became deputy chief of the American Department, was secretly working for the C.I.A., one of the highest-ranking American moles in history, Russian prosecutors say. After surprising his colleagues by retiring suddenly in 1997, he moved with his wife and three children to the United States...

When ten Russian spies landed back in Russia in early July in the largest spy swap with the United States since the Cold War, they were quickly loaded into vans on the tarmac and whisked away. In the seven weeks since, they haven't been seen. Now the most famous of the group has resurfaced, and again she has sparked controversy. Anna Chapman, the sultry femme fatale whose picture was plastered on the front pages of newspapers around the world, has appeared in a video of an exclusive photoshoot she recently did for the Russian magazine "Heat." But after Chapman posted...

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Joy Tiz ©2010 KGB Colonel turned Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin reminded the world that the KGB is still in business, albeit rebranded as the FSB. Asserting that he knows the names of those who exposed the Russian spies recently discovered and swiftly dispatched out of the United States, Putin dispensed a KGB worthy reprimand . ‘It was the result of treason,’ he said, predicting a grim future for those responsible. ‘It always ends badly for traitors: as a rule, their end comes from drink or drugs, lying in a ditch. And for what?’ Putin offered this poignant reminder about...

Vladimir Putin has revealed he met and even sang patriotic Soviet songs with a group of Russian spies deported from America. Mr Putin: 'We talked about life.' Russia's prime minister, who served as a KGB agent, said the group included the young spy Anna Chapman and predicted they would have an "interesting, bright" future. "I met with them. We talked about life. We sang. It was not karaoke but live music," Mr Putin told reporters during a visit to Ukraine. "We sang From Where the Motherland Begins," a Soviet song made famous in the 1968 USSR film The Sword and...

Putin says spies expelled from US had 'tough lives' Russian PM Vladimir Putin during a visit to Ukraine. Photo: 24 July 2010 Mr Putin said that the spies "had a tough life" Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says he has met the Russian agents recently deported from the US - and claimed they were living "tough lives" and had been "betrayed". He told journalists that he had sung Soviet-era patriotic songs with the agents. However, Mr Putin did not say where the meeting took place. The 10 Russians admitted in a US court earlier this month to being agents for...

One would assume that after the 10 members of the notorious "Russian spy ring" were sent to Moscow on July 9 (and the 11th disappeared in Cyprus), the number of Russian spies in the United States should have gone down. At least a bit. But it hasn't. As if produced by the skillful hand of a Secret Magician, Russian spies keep popping up -- to the joy of people who're craving to derail recent improvements in U.S.-Russia relations. On July 13, supreme forces running secret operations around the world introduced us to the "12th Russian spy", a Alexey Karetnikov, who...

Freed Russian spies to face lie detector at home 13:13 13/07/2010 © REUTERS/ /Christine Cornell Ten Russian spies freed in a swap deal with the U.S. will take lie detector tests as part of an evaluation of their performances, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily said on Tuesday, citing an intelligence service source. After their arrival in the Russian capital, the ten were delivered directly to the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the source said. "Specialists are currently working with members of the spy team. They are trying to find out who, and in what circumstances, could have failed,"...

Russian spy Anna Chapman is to be banned from Britain on national security grounds. Home Secretary Theresa May will revoke her British citizenship and withdraw her British passport next week on the advice of MI5 and Government lawyers. The decision came as Ms Chapman was yesterday undergoing debriefing by Russian secret services on her spying activities in the West and her arrest by the FBI, following an emotional reunion with her family.... Chapman said that she wanted to return to live in London following her conviction in the US but, in addition to the Home Office probe, she is under...

The ten arrested Russian spies have arrived in Vienna, and shortly will be back in Moscow. Sentenced last night in New York, they gave their real Russian names, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to time served — a few short days. Never has a spy swap been orchestrated so quickly. In the era of the Cold War, there were plenty of swaps. The most famous was that of KGB Colonel Rudolf Abel for the U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962. Abel was the name he adopted, when he lived in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn, and posed as an artist....

The British ex-husband of alleged spy Anna Chapman has disclosed a series of emails she sent him weeks before her arrest, describing her regrets over the life she had chosen. Mrs Chapman, 28, told Alex Chapman she had “suffered a lot” because of her decision to put her career ahead of a chance to start a family with him. But she said she was determined to make her new life in America work, adding: “It’s never too late to be happy and succeed.” Mrs Chapman, who was arrested in the US last weekend as part of an 11-strong suspected spying...

Anna Chapman is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian with an IQ of 162, a diplomat father and a taste for the high life. She also has a romantic streak, having married her British boyfriend within a few months of meeting him. With such attributes it is hardly surprising that she has been called a real-life Bond girl. Anna Kushchenko, to use her maiden name, was born in the industrial southern Russian city of Volgograd, then Stalingrad, to a maths teacher mother, Irene, and a diplomat father, Vasily. She does not appear to have had an especially gilded youth, having suffered from...

WASHINGTON -- The White House began deliberating a spy swap with Moscow nearly a month ago, well ahead of the arrests of 10 Russians in the United States less than two weeks ago, a White House official said Friday.

Deep in your heart you knew there are tax-payer’s money wasted somewhere in the whole Russian spy drama. Why did the Obama administration and the Russian government wanted to get rid of them so fast? We may never know. However we can prove that USAID funded the agro- and eco-tourism project in 2004 run by the company 4Vlast for which Anya Chapman and Vasily Kushchenko worked at the time. As you know from the previous research Chapman was the London contact person for the 4Vlast firm, Kushchenko was running their tourism firm and worked for the 4 Vlast Mrs. World...

Joy Tiz ©2010 Get these Russian spies out of here before they start talking. The spies, who lived in the U.S. for ten years on Putin’s dime, will be swapped out for ten prisoners currently held in Russian jails. There’s no question that the powers that be don’t want these people talking. But who has the bigger investment in keeping them quiet—the Kremlin or Washington, DC? While the bird cage liner media would like us to believe that these were a bunch of bumbling incompetents, in reality, they got quite a lot done. Certainly a trial of the spies could...