Jul 1, 2010

Anna Chapman: the lady in red was a Russian spy

It was 'spies and fries' as Obama was treating Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to hamburgers at Ray's Hell Burger (pictured) in Arlington, Virginia while eleven suspects were arrested on charges of spying for Russia.


The red-headed lady in the red dress shown here was among eleven people arrested by the FBI and accused of spying for Russia in an extraordinary Cold War-style espionage plot.

Anna Chapman (pictured), believed to be a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters' degree in economics and her own online real-estate business, is being held without bail after prosecutors called her a 'highly trained agent' and a 'practiced deceiver'.

The accused allegedly used invisible ink and stenography - right out of a cheap 1950's spy novel. They could have made good use of the spy kit I got as a kid for a few breakfast cereal box tops.

One reporter wondered if they could have been just as effective using Google search.

Their amateurish methods prompted another reporter to write, "it's funny -- except is isn't"

Eight of the suspects were married couples - at least one with a child. The plot 'has been in place since the 1990s.'

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