Meet Anna: Russia's Deep Cover Agent in America | True Life Spy Stories

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The afternoon of 26 June 2010 was sweltering in Manhattan. Inside a coffee shop, a young woman with distinctive red hair sat across from a man she'd never met.

Anna Chapman was nervous. The man claimed to be from the Russian consulate, using coded phrases that only someone from Moscow Centre would know. He told her that her laptop needed to go back to Russia for repairs.

She hesitated, feeling dubious.

What she didn't know was that the man across from her was an FBI agent. The laptop she'd handed over would never see Moscow. And within 36 hours, her life as a Russian intelligence operative in America would be over.

This is the story of Anna Chapman, the red-headed socialite spy who infiltrated London and New York's elite circles. Born in Volgograd to a KGB officer, she acquired British citizenship through marriage, moved through Mayfair's high society, and eventually landed in Manhattan where she transmitted encrypted data to Russian handlers using covert wireless networks. Her arrest in June 2010, alongside nine other Russian illegals, marked the end of Operation Ghost Stories and the largest US-Russia spy swap since the Cold War.

But Anna's story didn't end with her capture. It had only just begun.

From coffee shops in Manhattan to the Kremlin's halls of power, from FBI surveillance to magazine covers and television shows, this is the true story of the spy who came in from the cold and found the spotlight warmer than she'd ever imagined.

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