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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...

NEW YORK – The largest spy swap between the U.S. and Russia since the Cold War unfolded Thursday as 10 people accused of spying in suburban America pleaded guilty to conspiracy and were ordered deported to Russia in exchange for the release of four Russian spies. The defendants pleaded guilty in a Manhattan courtroom, were immediately sentenced to time served and were ordered deported. They were expected to be sent to Russia within hours, and U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood announced that the Russian government would release four people to the United States in exchange. The swap carries significant consequences...

All 10 of the accused Russian spies held in the United States pleaded guilty Thursday at a hearing in Manhattan, a key step in a reported deal under negotiation with Russia for the largest swap of espionage detainees since the Cold War. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Farbiarz said at the start of the hearing in federal court that the 10 defendants wanted to enter guilty pleas. An 11th person indicted in the case is a fugitive. Prosecutors agreed to allow the 10 to plead guilty to one charge each of secretly conspiring to act as agents of the Russian government,...

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to the first swap of accused spies in 24 years, and the exchange will begin to take place by the end of Thursday.Anna Chapman, will appear in New York court today and then head directly to the airport to fly back to Moscow.All 10 suspects are scheduled to be in court in New York Thursday, but it is not clear if all will be sent to Russia. At least three of the 10 have U.S. citizenship. As the U.S. and Russian governments scramble to put together a huge spy swap before the 10 accused...

A prisoner swap is being planned to bring 10 suspected Russian spies back from the US, according to reports from Russia.

MI5 is investigating whether a former KGB agent recruited his daughter, Anna Chapman, to work for the country’s secret services while living in London. Mrs Chapman told her British ex-husband that her father, Vasily Kushchenko, was a “high ranking” officer in the Russian security forces, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. On Wednesday an MI5 officer interviewed Alex Chapman at his home in Bournemouth, Dorset, as part of the Security Service’s investigation into the background of Mrs Chapman, 28, who has been accused of spying in the US. MI5 is trying to discover whether Mrs Chapman, who has British citizenship and...

NEW YORK (CBS) Alleged Russian spy Anna Chapman has been making headlines all over the world for her alleged covert affairs and what some describe as her "femme fatale" persona.