‘Russian femme fatale’ spy Chapman becomes US tabloid darling
By ANIWednesday, June 30, 2010
WASHINGTON - A Russian girl, ‘Anna Chapman’, has hogged the media attention, with almost all US tabloids projecting her glamorous pictures as a ‘Russian spy’ who communicated with a Russian official in Manhattan in January using a private Wi-Fi network via paired computers to carry out the operation in the country.
According to The Telegraph, sultry Facebook photos of Chapman were plastered on the front page of the New York Daily News following her arrest along with 10 other members of a sophisticated network of US-based Russian sleeper agents.
The New York Post used headlines like “Spy ring’s femme fatale,” and “Red hot beauty snared in Russian ‘espionage’ shock,” to associate the Russian beauty to a dreadful operation.
The paper stated that FBI agents had monitored her on 10 Wednesdays between January and June 2010 and described her as a “highly trained intelligence operative”.
Chapman has previously worked in Britain and was married to a British citizen but later moved to New York in February from Moscow after a divorce.
The paper stated that in an interview posted on video-sharing site You Tube, she described herself as a start-up specialist, seeking to build a recruitment agency targeting young professionals in Moscow and New York.
The paper also quoted her bold statement posted at Facebook.
“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it,” she commented.
She appeared in federal court for the first time on Monday in Manhattan and spoke for several minutes with a lawyer after being released from her handcuffs. (ANI)
