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Quote:Anna Chapman 'is an ordinary girl', says her father-in-law

Kevin Chapman first met Anna when she and Alex returned to England from Russia after their secret marriage in 2002

The British father-in-law of Anna Chapman has spoken of his bewilderment after hearing she had been arrested following accusations that she is associated with a Russian spy ring.

Kevin Chapman, father of Alex Chapman, said: "If there is any grain of truth in all of this, then I think that Anna was set up or seduced into something because of the glamour. I feel very sorry for her. She must be feeling very frightened right now.

"She's simply not some Mata Hari, she can't be... she's just an ordinary girl," he told the Daily Mail.

Chapman, 56, batted back claims that the Russian diplomat's daughter had married his son in order to obtain a British passport.

"I'm convinced it wasn't a honey trap. They were so much in love. It just doesn't add up," said the mortgage advisor from Weybridge in Surrey.

Chapman first met Anna when she and Alex returned to England from Russia after their secret marriage in 2002.

He said: "It was a surprise but we were pleased. She ticked all the boxes really, she was attractive, intelligent and from a good background and nice personality.

"She was a very pleasing daughter-in-law and they were talking about having kids. I don't know why they split up."

Chapman said that when the couple returned from Russia they didn't have "two pennies to rub together".

"If she was being groomed by the KGB, you would have thought they would have set her up a bit better … they didn't give her a very good expense account."

Jane Chapman, his ex-wife and mother of Alex, also found it hard to believe her former daughter-in-law was guilty of the allegations.

"I knew Anna, I saw her with my son and they were genuinely in love. I don't believe you can fake that. I couldn't have wished for a nicer daughter-in-law. If she were found guilty, then I would think because of her age she'd been sucked into something," she said.

Mrs Chapman recalled the day Alex first told her about Anna.

"Alex phoned me and said: 'Mum, I've met the most amazing girl and I've fallen head over heels in love.' It was the first time he'd ever spoken about a girl like that before," she said.

"She seemed shy, unsophisticated and sweet. I liked her immediately and thought they were the perfect match. They were both very intellectual, passionate and driven, and when Anna came to stay for Christmas she and Alex spent the whole time cuddled up together in an armchair in front of the log fire. They didn't seem to be able to spend a minute apart."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul...n-spy-ring
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#22
From http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010...nge-spies/


Quote:The United States and Russia carried out a major spy exchange on Thursday, echoing the past era of Cold War espionage as 10 deep-cover Russian agents who were recently arrested by the FBI were exchanged for four people held by Moscow on spy charges.
The spy swap was the largest prisoner transfer of its kind since the 1980s, when U.S. and Soviet bloc spies and agents were traded over Berlin's Glienicke Bridge separating the American sector of West Berlin from communist East Germany.
The Justice Department announced the trade in a statement, saying the 10 Russian agents - all but one a Russian national - had pleaded guilty in federal court in Manhattan to conspiracy to work as unregistered foreign agents. They were then ordered by a judge to be expelled from the country.
The deal came 12 days after the FBI rolled up a decade-long investigation by arresting the group of agents, called "illegals" because they posed as Americans and did not work under diplomatic immunity.
Court papers said the agents had been dispatched by Moscow to obtain U.S. secrets and to influence the U.S. government while posing as Americans in Washington, New York and Boston.
The spies were working for Russia's foreign intelligence service, known by its Russian acronym SVR - the successor to the Soviet KGB political police and intelligence service.
A senior Obama administration official who briefed reporters on the swap would not say when or where the actual transfer would take place but indicated it will be concluded over the next several days.
"We drove the terms of this arrangement," the senior official said, noting that law enforcement officials were mainly involved in the discussions.
The poor health of those imprisoned in Russia also was a factor. "We wanted to move quickly because we saw it in our interest to see if we could obtain the release of these individuals," the senior official said.
According to the official, Russia's government, after initially denying publicly that the 10 agents worked for Moscow, shifted and admitted the 10 people were Russians. "We moved relatively quickly to the terms of the arrangement [after that]," the senior official said.
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The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".
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#23
Last night while I was busy baking the fish and mashing the potatoes, the 'telly' in the living room was pouring forth the lead story which, said the announcerette, seemed like something out of a John LeCarre novel, which immediately made me recall the old warning about propaganda: "if you can get them past your opening assumption, you've got them".

The network was ABC-TV at which I once spent the day watching, from the inside, the complete production [8 AM through second dinner time feed] of that very same broadcast back when Harry Reasoner was the anchor, Av Westin was the chief, and Dick Richter was the second-in-command. As the March '73 event rose to its conclusion, the phone rang twice to present views on the day's controversy from Washington. If I have it correctly, ABC-TV was originally Capitol Cites Broadcasting as founded by the former SEC Chairman-turned-Director of National Intelligence William Casey. Tonight's informational launderess was Diane Sawyer who got her start as a speechwriter for Mr. Richard "Tricky" Nixon.
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#24
Cheer up, Ed, there's only the bed-ridden, the imprisoned, and the terminally incurious watching the network majors any more:

Broadcast viewership hits record low

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010...tching-tv/
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"

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#25
Paul Rigby Wrote:Cheer up, Ed, there's only the bed-ridden, the imprisoned, and the terminally incurious watching the network majors any more:

Broadcast viewership hits record low

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010...tching-tv/


Wow. That's great. That describes the person watching that TV last night with better precision that a "smart bomb". Laser-guided insight.
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#26
http://www.peteearley.com/blog/2010/07/1...a-chuckle/

Sergei’s Death. Mistakes. Nonsense and a Chuckle

Published by Pete on July 10, 2010 in Books and Personal.

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I’ve been a journalist for more than three decades, but I’ve never had a day like yesterday.
My morning began at 5 a.m. when I announced on my blog that my good friend, Sergei Tretyakov, had died unexpectedly on June 13th. We became good friends while collaborating on Comrade J. I posted this news after speaking several times during the week to Helen, his wife, and to several sources in the U.S. government familiar with his case.
I had learned about his death from Helen shortly after it happened and she had asked me as a family friend to keep silent about it. She was worried that Sergei’s former colleagues in the Russian intelligence service — the SVR — would somehow use his death for propaganda purposes and attempt to embarrass and discredit him. She also was understandably devastated by his unexpected death, in mourning for her beloved husband, and did not want the media attention that she knew the news would bring on her family.
Of course, I agreed. As an author and not a daily journalist, I felt I had the luxury of keeping silent.
I should have known a fundamental rule about news. No one, no matter how well-intentioned or experienced, can control it.
At the time, neither Helen nor I were aware of the pending arrests of 10 Russian “illegals” and when that story broke nationally, it wasn’t long before Sergei’s name began being mentioned.
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Several reporters who cover the FBI and CIA began speculating that Sergei had tipped off U.S. officials about the Russian ”illegals” ring because several of the spies had entered the U.S. in the late 1990s when Sergei was the second-in-command of the SVR in New York City but was secretly working as a U.S. spy.
I first learned about this speculation when a New York Post reporter telephoned me and asked if I thought Sergei was the source. Based on what I knew at the time, I said that Sergei probably was. It seemed logical.
Within hours, I was getting calls from NPR, the BBC, and the major news networks. Everyone was searching for Sergei.
At that point, I told Helen that it was only a matter of time before his death would be discovered, but she wasn’t ready emotionally to tell the world that Sergei had died. I began telling callers that Sergei was “unavailable.”
Meanwhile, the illegals story continued to mushroom, especially after one of the “illegals” – Anna Chapman — was dubbed the “Russian Femme Fatale.” Suddenly, her face was everywhere and I began receiving more and more telephone calls.
Where was Sergei Tretyakov? How can we reach him? Was he the source?
DATELINE called and I agreed to an interview. I began contacting sources of mine in the FBI and CIA to learn more about the “illegals” and to my shock, I was told repeatedly that Sergei had nothing to do with the case. Yes, it was true that he had briefed the government after he had defected in October 2000 about SVR “illegal” operations in New York City. But I was told that he did not know any of the names of the Russians who had been arrested and had not tipped off the FBI about the spy ring.
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During these conversations, I also learned that individuals involved in Sergei’s case wanted Helen to reveal that her husband had died. I was told that it would be more difficult to dismiss the conspiracy theories that always seem to surface in spying cases if Sergei continued to be “unavailable.”
On Thursday afternoon, I told DATELINE during a taped interview for a program that was to air on Sunday that Sergei was not the FBI’s source for the arrests of the “illegals.” The producer who interviewed me was surprised and clearly disappointed.
Late that night, Helen and I agreed that it was time to go public with Sergei’s death. I greatly admired her courage and told her to gird herself for a media onslaught.
I posted my blog at 5 a.m.and sent word to several reporters.
Not much happened for several hours until J.J. Green, a reporter at WTOP radio in Washington D.C., interviewed Helen. Green had broadcast an excellent series about Sergei Tretyakov on WTOP earlier and like me, Helen had liked and trusted him. She had told him about Sergei’s death and had given him an exclusive interview when he called her.
The Associated Press picked up Green’s story and then called me for information.
It was then that things began getting strange.
An AP reporter wrote a story that said WTOP was the first to break the news of Sergei’s death. Obviously, that was wrong. Later during the day, that same AP reporter sent me an email explaining why he had credited WTOP instead of my blog. ”WTOP is an AP member and the first media outlet to tip us off and report the story. That’s why we’re giving them credit.” Apparently plugging AP members overrode being accurate. But the slight was a minor irritant. There were other mistakes in the AP story that was now spreading news of Sergei’s death across the nation and world.
Within two hours, I had received more than fifty emails and dozens of telephone calls from reporters. It didn’t help that I was out of town conducting an interview and didn’t have enough juice in my cell phone to return all of the calls to answer questions.
I also realized that I had made a mistake too in my blog. Or it appeared that I had.
I had been told that the FBI had supervised an autopsy of Sergei’s body to insure that there was no foul play involved in his death. However, a reporter tracked down the coroner, who was actually doing the autopsy, and the coroner said the final results would not be available until late July. Then the FBI took the unusual step of issuing a statement saying that it had not supervised the autopsy as I had reported.
I felt both angry and betrayed because my sources had told me that an autopsy had been done under the direction of the FBI and it had showed no foul play. I felt the FBI was distancing itself from Sergei’s death and I didn’t know why. When I confronted my sources, I was told that the government did not want to officially acknowledge that Sergei was a spy.
What? I exclaimed.
In the first chapter of my book, Comrade J, I had explained that it was the FBI and CIA who had first introduced Sergei to me.
Within a few hours, The New York Times was reporting that the coroner was now saying that an autopsy had been completed and that the FBI was monitoring the autopsy.
By mid-morning, the tenor of the calls on my cell phone had changed. Now I was being asked about differences in the WTOP report and my blog. Why had Helen told me that Sergei had died from a massive heart attack when WTOP was saying that he had died from natural causes. Why had I said an autopsy had been done when the coroner was saying it hadn’t and then saying it had? And why had the FBI gone to the trouble of saying it had not supervised an autopsy when the coroner was now saying it had?
Meanwhile, a spy museum official in Washington D.C. was still insisting that it was possible that Sergei had tipped off the FBI about the “illegals.”
Late Friday afternoon, the Washington Post revealed that the White House had been briefed about the impending arrests of the ”illegals” on June 11th — two days before Sergei’s death.
It was at that point when the conspiracy theories began surfacing on blogs, including this one.
A reporter from TASS — the Russian news service — telephoned and suggested that it was highly unlikely that Sergei’s death and the “illegals” case were unrelated and a coincidence.
The story was now taking on a life of its own.
When I wrote my first spy book about John Walker Jr. and his Family of Spies, I quickly learned a sad truth about espionage reporting. I was on a radio station talking about Walker and how he had betrayed our nation when an outraged caller came on the air and told me that I had it all wrong. Walker was actually a double agent trained by the CIA. Our government was going to swap him with someone in Moscow so that Walker could steal the Kremlin’s secrets. It was total nonsense, of course, but the caller was absolutely certain it was true.
Not long after that, I wrote about Aldrich Ames, the CIA traitor, and his involvement with Vitaly Yuchenko, a veteran KGB officer who defected to the US in 1985, only to change his mind a short time later and return to the Soviet Union. I interviewed the key players in both the U.S. and in Moscow about the Yuchenko case after the collapse of the Soviet Union, including retired KGB General Boris Solomatin who was directly involved in the Yuchenko investigation. There is no doubt in my mind that Yuchenko was a genuine defector who had simply gone home to Moscow after having his heart broken by the wife of a Soviet diplomat. He had foolishly believed that she would leave her husband in Canada and live happily ever after with him in America after he defected to the U.S. Instead, she had rebuffed him.
However, if you check the Internet you will see lots of conspiracy theories about how Yuchenko was a “fake” defector who was sent by the KGB to cast suspicion away from Ames. Even Wikipedia has fallen for the “Yuchenko was a fake defector” scenario that is constantly being pushed by the SVR.
Given the history of conspiracy theories in the CIA, dating back to James Jesus Angleton and the Nosenko affair, I will not be surprised if the SVR and conspiracy theorists jump on Sergei’s death.
No matter what I write about my good friend, there will be readers who will prefer to believe that he was murdered for speaking out against Russia. My heart goes out to Helen because this is exactly what she didn’t want to happen.
But I also have to smile a bit.
I can see my friend Sergei chuckling at the nonsense that many are writing about him. He always did like a good spy story.
The most relevant literature regarding what happened since September 11, 2001 is George Orwell's "1984".
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#27
Obviously the story of Anna Chapman is used heavily for public relations purpose (aka propaganda) in Russia.

From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...e=politics

Quote:
(10-24) 04:00 PDT Moscow --
President Dmitry Medvedev bestowed the country's highest state honor Monday on the Russian sleeper agents deported from the United States as part of the countries' biggest spy swap since the Cold War, the Interfax news agency reported.
The awards were handed out at a Kremlin ceremony less than four months after the exchange, the agency quoted Medvedev spokeswoman Natalya Timakova as saying. No other details on the ceremony were available and Kremlin spokespeople were not immediately reachable.
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The spies received a hero's welcome in Russia, with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin leading them in a patriotic sing-along in July.
The most famous of the agents, Anna Chapman, visited the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this month for the launch of a Russian spaceship, fueling her celebrity in Russia and abroad.
Chapman was in Baikonur ostensibly as the new celebrity face of a Moscow bank.
FondServisBank, which works with Russian companies in the aerospace industry, said it had hired Chapman to bring innovation to its information technologies.
It did not escape Russians' attention that the initials of the bank, FSB, are the same as Russia's main spy agency.
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Must be fun to be a spy nowadays. Party
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#28
Moscow: Russia's counter-espionage agency has charged a former intelligence officer with high treason for helping the US bust a Russian spy ring last year, leading to the arrest of 10 agents, including Anna Chapman who later became a pinup girl.

"The FSB investigation department has completed an investigation into the case and charged Russian national Alexander Poteyev with committing high treason by divulging state secrets," Federal Security Service, Russia's internal security and counter-espionage agency, said in a statement.

According to RIA Novosti news agency, the charge sheet against Poteyev, the former foreign intelligence service colonel, was sent to Moscow's Main Military Court on April 21. His case will be heard in absentia.

Col Poteyev fled to the United States with his family shortly before the arrest of the sleeper agents in the US was made public.



High treason carries a maximum of 20 years' prison under Russian law, while desertion is seven years.

Ten Russians, including red haired diva Chapman, were arrested in the US in June 2010 for espionage. They pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as unregistered foreign agents and were deported to Russia in exchange for four men accused by the Kremlin of spying for Britain's MI6 and the CIA.

It was the biggest spy swap between the two countries since the Cold War.


Chapman became a pinup girl amid speculation that are she was mulling a career in Russian politics.
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#29
The arrest warrant by the Russian FSB for its former Colonel Alexander Potegev shows that the so-called Manhattan 11 spy ring was an American one all along despite Putin's willingness to go along with the ploy just to demonstrate how different it is in dealing with alleged spies.

While the Anglo-Americans were getting rid of leakers like Gareth Williams, Gudrun Loftus, and Private Bradley Manning in the harshest way, Moscow took in those who had been set up by the CIA as Russian sleepers just to show how forgiving it is.

Of course, the Western media and Anglo-American security stooges made a big joke about it all at Moscow's expense.

But now, since the laughing has pretty well stopped, Moscow is seeking a 20-year sentence for his work in setting ten of them up. Their handler is still on the run.

For more, see my article about how Washington and London are willing to do anything to make relations with their alleged enemies worse.
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