Anna Chapman The Spy Who Loved Me www.shanagrant.com Anna Vasil'evna Chapman (born February 23, 1982) is a Russian national, who while living in New York, United States was arrested along with nine others on June 27, 2010, on suspicion of working for an Illegals Program spy ring under the Russian Federation's external intelligence agency, the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki). Chapman pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US Attorney General, and was deported back to Russia on July 8, 2010, as part of the 2010 Russia--United States Prisoner Swap. Officials claimed Chapman worked with a network of others, until an undercover FBI agent attempted to draw her into a trap at a Manhattan coffee shop.[18] The FBI agent offered Chapman a fake passport at Starbucks, with the instructions to forward it to another spy. He asked "are you ready for this step?", to which Chapman unequivocally replied, " Of course." And accepted the passport. However, after making a series of phone calls to her father, Vasily Kushchenko, in Moscow, Chapman ended up heeding her father's advice and handed the passport in at a local police station, but was arrested shortly after.
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