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Russian spook Anna Chapman rejected MI6 deal | Spooks at Britain's MI6 tried to broker a deal with Russian spy Anna Chapman minutes before she flew
to Moscow, a security source has claimed. Intelligence officers approached the secret agent at Vienna airport last month while she was waiting for her plane
to refuel. The agent, one of 10 ordered out of the US after the discovery of a
Russian spy ring, was given the chance of a new life in Britain in return for
information about other Russian spooks in the UK. Chapman refused their deal and
boarded the plane back to her homeland, the Daily Express reports. The spies received
a rapturous reception from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who toasted
their return with patriotic Soviet-era songs. A source close to MI6 told the Sunday
Express: "There was a deal on the table just before she caught her connecting
flight to Moscow. The secret service intercepted her on her flight back from America
to Vienna, where her plane landed to refuel. MI6 were keen to know about other
'illegals' - Russian spy cells - hiding in Britain, so they made her an offer.
In return they offered to give her back British citizenship and allow her to settle
in London. He added: "Anna was having none of it though and told them in no uncertain
terms that she wished to return to Russia." Before moving to the US, 28-year-old
Chapman, whose maiden name is Kushchenko, lived in London. She worked for a number
of multinational companies between 2001 and 2006, including Barclays Bank and
private plane hire firm NetJets Europe. In 2002 she married Bournemouth businessman
Alex Chapman but they separated in 2005, a year before she moved to New York.
During her four years in America she set up her own property firm and mixed with
some of Manhattan's most influential politicians and business chiefs. The FBI
finally caught up with her on June 27, when she was arrested on suspicion of working
for a spy ring under the command of Russia's SVR intelligence agency. She pleaded
guilty to conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying
the US Attorney General and was deported as part of a spy swap. |
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