FBI Breaks Up Russian Spy Ring (1 Viewer)

[EYLive]

Alleged Femme Fatale

Hanna Montana!

 

[Homer J Simpson]

Alleged Femme Fatale

That's what I came in here to post. You just knew at least one of them would be a smokin hottie.:vub:

 

[FavreCo]

Alleged Femme Fatale

Smoking hot. Best move is to get her to cooperate with immunity. Otherwise, prosecutors are obviously gay.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Russian spy chiefs ordered Anna Chapman to seduce whistleblower Edward Snowden, claims defector Former intelligence agent Anna Chapman was told by Russian spy chiefs to seduce Edward Snowden, a defector claimed today.

Ex-KGB agent Boris Karpichkov alleged that a plan was launched for Chapman, 32, to keep US whistleblower Snowden, 31, in Moscow - so the Russians could continue to question him.

The two were said to have met just once - but Chapman proposed in a tweet in July 2013.

Mr Karpichkov told journalist Nigel Nelson for the Sunday People: ‘If Snowden had accepted he would have a right to Russian citizenship. That would lock him in Russia. As a citizen he’d need permission to leave.’

Mr Karpichkov - who fled to Britain after 15 years as a KGB agent, but is still in contact with sources in Moscow - said Snowden became ‘concerned about what the consequences would be’ of being attached to Chapman.

Former Conservative MP Rupert Allason, better-known now as spy writer Nigel West, said that Chapman was ‘sophisticated enough to live with an American’.

Mr Allason told the Sunday People: ‘There aren’t many of those in the FSB (formerly the KGB). She would be prepared to use her obvious gifts.’

In September 2013, Chapman refused to answer questions about the proposal in a bizarre five-minute interview with NBC, and walked out after she was asked about the tweet. She has never publicly commented on it.

Chapman, the daughter of a senior KGB agent, was arrested in 2010 with nine others, accused of working for a spy ring for Russia's external intelligence agency.


She married British public schoolboy Alex Chapman in 2002 and the pair moved to London, but divorced in 2006. When unmasked as a Russian agent, she was stripped of her British passport.

Since returning to Moscow, Chapman - dubbed a 'femme fatale' - has carved out a lucrative career as a TV presenter, model and owner of a fashion brand.


Snowden left his long-term girlfriend Lindsay Mills in Hawaii when he fled the US, and was granted asylum in Moscow in August 2013, after six weeks of waiting at the city's airport.

In the summer Snowden was reunited in Russia with Miss Mills, a pole-dancer. The pair were pictured together on a theatre date in Moscow. Snowden now has a three-year residency permit.

He is wanted in the US after leaking classified details of government surveillance programmes. His critics view him as a traitor, while supporters see him as a hero who spoke up for civil liberties.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2864198/Russian-spy-chiefs-ordered-Anna-Chapman-seduce-whistleblower-Edward-Snowden-claims-defector.html#ixzz3LLtjLgPr

 

[Sinn Fein]

Um. So getting busted as a Russian Spy earns a whopping 5 years in jail nowadays?

I know (vicariously though my parents) a real life Russian Spy serving 40 years . . . he has served a little over 25 years so far, and has about 5 more to go (assuming he lives that long) until he'll get a mandatory release date for good behavior.

He died in prison last year. Grossly over punished for his crime imo.

 

[timschochet]

Boris might have gotten away with it too if not for moose and dumb squirrel.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Um. So getting busted as a Russian Spy earns a whopping 5 years in jail nowadays?

I know (vicariously though my parents) a real life Russian Spy serving 40 years . . . he has served a little over 25 years so far, and has about 5 more to go (assuming he lives that long) until he'll get a mandatory release date for good behavior.

He died in prison last year. Grossly over punished for his crime imo.

That's pretty interesting, seriously! is it possible to talk at all about what the goal of the plot was?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Boris might have gotten away with it too if not for moose and dumb squirrel.

In this case Natasha is pretty damned fine.

I kind of think the Ruskies could deliver some pretty nice tail out of their inventory, he ought to take that deal. (jk)

 

[Sinn Fein]

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He died in prison last year. Grossly over punished for his crime imo.

That's pretty interesting, seriously! is it possible to talk at all about what the goal of the plot was?

Story is fairly well known - google Walker Spy ring. My parents knew all the players, but really knew Art - his daughter was my babysitter when I was a kid, and Art was one of my dad's early bosses in the navy. Art had been in the Federal Correction complex in Butner NC, his brother John is there now - I think in the hospital wing of the complex. My parents have visited Art maybe once a month or so for, maybe 8 years (Just checked - John died at Butner about a month after Art)

Long story short, John Walker was the "ringleader" of the family - got his brother Art, and John's son Michael to join in. The story goes that Art provided some schematics of a boat (he was working for a defense contractor at the time):

The most the government could show was that he gave the KGB schematics of a 20-year-old Navy boat. The drawings were so routine, the Navy classified them at its lowest level, and the retired KGB general who had overseen the Walker ring dismissed them decades later as "worthless."

When the government arrested them - they leveraged Michael, and got his dad to plead guilty in exchange for a reduced sentence for his son. Art went to trial, lost, and I think ended up with a longer sentence than his brother - the "mastermind". Despite the fact that Art really never sold anything of value to the Russians, the gov't took a hard line against him in his parole hearings.

He deserved to get punished - he did sell something knowingly to the Russians while still at the height of the cold war - but he made $12K, while its alleged that his brother made millions. At some point common sense should have prevailed. I get being upset at the time - the info his brother, nephew and a 4th guy, sold was apparently very valuable, and did some damage - but He would have been released next summer, having served his full term, 40 years, minus a few for good behavior. (He was sentenced to 3 life terms, plus 40 years - which apparently means you have to serve a minimum of 30 years to be considered "life")

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The targets of the FBI's investigation include covert SVR agents who assume false identities, and who are living in the US on long-term, "deep cover" assignments. Those arrested include agents who went by the names Richard and Cynthia Murphy, and Patricia Mills.

"These Russian secret agents work to hide all connections between themselves and Russia, even as they act at the direction and under the control of the SVR," the indictment said.

"These secret agents are typically called 'illegals'... The FBI's investigation has revealed that a network of illegals is now living and operating in the United States in the service of one primary, long-term goal: to become sufficiently "Americanised" such that they can gather information about the US for Russia, and can successfully recruit sources who are in, or are able to, infiltrate United States policy-making circles."

The indictment said the alleged spies used a number of methods to communicate with the SVR, including unique wireless networks to transfer encrypted data. One wireless network was allegedly run from a van in New York that on one occasion parked outside a coffee shop where one of the accused, named as Anna Chapman, was sitting. The FBI says it observed as she established a connection with the wireless link in the van and transmitted data. A few weeks later she did the same from a bookshop.

The FBI said it also observed a car with diplomatic plates registered to the Russian government park outside a Washington DC restaurant where another alleged spy, going by the name Mikhail Semenko, who is still being sought by the authorities, used a computer to establish a connection with a wireless signal from the car. Other information was passed by posting pictures on the internet with text buried in them, as well as traditional means such as drops and "brush pasts" in parks.

- Seems important in restrospect.

 

[Johnny Rock]

- Seems important in restrospect.

The important thing to remember is that Anna Chapman is hot.

 

[flapgreen]

Not going to go back and read this thread, but did they know Trump was a Russian spy back then,  too? 

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

The important thing to remember is that Anna Chapman is hot.

 Very true.

 

[bueno]

What kind of anal retentive person digs up two-year-old threads anyway?

 

[Quez]

Our spies need to do a better job in Russia so we can get a heads up on all of this planned election tampering.  

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

What kind of anal retentive person digs up two-year-old threads anyway?

Our spies need to do a better job in Russia so we can get a heads up on all of this planned election tampering.  

I bumped this thread because aside from the FACT that Anna Chapman is still very hot and worth checking out, it was 6 years ago that the US government had notice that Putin's Russia was very active stealing data. What caught my notice was the means by which they were doing it. Seems important in light of what happened at the DNC.

 

[Statorama]

Alleged Femme Fatale

Dang it, you just KNOW Trump did her at some point.

 

[Quez]

They didn't need a deep cover spy to hack innerwebz newbie Podesta.  Assuming he was hacked, and it wasn't someone within the DNC.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

They didn't need a deep cover spy to hack innerwebz newbie Podesta.  Assuming he was hacked, and it wasn't someone within the DNC.

Hey I agree, I'm just saying they've been stealing data since at least 2010, obviously different method though.