Anna Chapman is a name suddenly popping up all over the web, and that's because the attractive 28-year-old foreigner is one of 11 accused Russian spies living in the United States. Yesterday the FBI announced the arrests of 10 alleged deep-cover Russian agents who they've been following for years, the New York Post reported. The persons involved in the federal investigation are accused of attempting to infiltrate U.S. policymaking circles while posing as ordinary citizens for the last ten years. According to various reports, the spies were on a quest to obtain information about American weapons, political developments and diplomatic strategy.
Anna Chapman (pictured right in a Facebook photo) was arrested in New York on Sunday after being caught in a sting by two undercover agents. Prosecutors have deemed her a flight risk, calling the foreign beauty a highly trained "Russian agent" who is "a practiced deceiver." As for the other spy suspects, the Post reports that eight of the ten lived as married couples in suburbs of New York City, Virginia, and Boston.
Each of the 10 suspects was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general, which carries a maximum of five years in prison if convicted. Nine of those arrested also face charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries up to a 20 year prison sentence, according to the New York Post.
Wow.... wtf!!! Scary.
Source:
The New York Post. Ex-spy: May be 50 undercover Russian couples in US. June 29, 2010.
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