. Anna Chapman

Anna Chapman.

Anna Chapman, het maiden name is Anna Vasil'evna Kushchenko (Анна Васильевна Кущенко), whose former name according to U.S. authorities is "Anya Kushchenko", she is a Volgograd native. She was born in Ukraine on 23 february 1982, according to some reports. Her father was employed in the Russian embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. She received her master's in economics degree from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow. She later worked in London at NetJets, Barclays Bank and allegedly at a few other companies for brief periods. In 2001, at an underground rave party in London's Docklands, she met Alex Chapman, the son of a British business executive, whom she married shortly thereafter in Moscow; they divorced in 2006. On July 2, 2010, Alex Chapman's revelations were made public; among other things, he claimed that he was not surprised by her arrest and that his ex-wife had "held secret meetings with Russian 'friends'".

The India One reports that Anna Chapman may have been recruited to become an agent, when she was in the United Kingdom citing Oleg Gordievsky and Alex Chapman as sources. An urgent probe is underway in the UK to ascertain whether Anna Chapman organized sleeper cells in the United Kingdom.

Her LinkedIn social networking site profile, identified herself as CEO of PropertyFinder Ltd, a website selling

real estate internationally. Anna Chapman posted photos of herself on the Odnoklassniki ("Classmates") social networking website in Russia where she stated "Russia, Moscow. My favorite place on earth, my native capital!". She also posted photos and profiles on the Facebook and LinkedIn social networking websites.Anna Chapman's prior meetings with her Russian handlers had been on Wednesdays, not face to face, solely to pass information via encrypted private computer networks at Barnes & Noble or at Starbucks. Thus her suspicion was aroused when an FBI informant, posing as a Russian consular officer named "Roman", on Saturday, June 26, asked her to come to New York from Connecticut, where she was spending the weekend. Her suspicions increased when "Roman" was a different person than she knew. The task of a face-to-face transfer of a U.S. passport to another Russian agent was beyond the tasks that Moscow Center had previously assigned to her. After the meeting with "Roman", Anna Chapman bought a new cell phone and two telephone cards. She called her father in Moscow and another individual in New York, both advising her not to transfer the passport; the calls were monitored by the FBI. Many former agents have publicly said that some of the slip-ups exposed by the FBI were downright humiliating. In perhaps the most famous example, Anna Chapman registered the cellphone using a fictitious name and address (99 Fake Street) and the FBI retrieved the receipt, which Anna Chapman had thrown away in a public garbage bin.Anna Chapman turned in the passport to the 1st Precinct police station in New York but was questioned by the FBI and arrested.According to her American lawyer Robert Baum, when in the U.S. jail, she feared that she would be deported; when her deportation became imminent, she said she would go to live in London on her UK passport (which was subsequently, however). After her deportation to Russia, in July 2010, Robert Baum reiterated that his client had wished to stay in the US; he also said that she was "particularly upset" by the revocation of her UK citizenship and exclusion from the country.Britain's tabloid Sunday Express on August 8, 2010, cited an unidentified "source close to MI6" as saying: "There was a deal on the table just before she caught her connecting flight to Moscow. The secret service intercepted her on her flight back from America to Vienna, where her plane landed to refuel. MI6 were keen to know about other ‘illegals’ – Russian spy cells – hiding in Britain, so they made her an offer. In return they offered to give her back British citizenship and allow her to settle in London. Anna Chapman was having none of it though and told them in no uncertain terms that she wished to return to Russia."In September German magazine Der Spiegel reported that Anna Chapman said she had been forbidden by the SVR from saying anything on her activities in the US.

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March 2012.

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