On 26 June 2010, a man calling himself Roman summoned Anna Chapman. He posed as a Russian consular officer. He was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officer, and he had a job for her: pass a fake passport to another spy.
\n\nShe became suspicious. Instead of passing it on, she went to a store and bought a pay-as-you-go Motorola phone. According to her lawyer, she used it to call her father in Moscow, and it was he who guided her to hand the passport to the New York police. On the call, she told him she was worried that her cover had been blown.
\n\nThat call was the beginning of the end. “Chapman’s call, together with a planned trip to Moscow by another spy, Richard Murphy, prompted US law enforcement officials to end months of covert surveillance on 27 June by arresting the 10 spies, prompting the biggest international espionage furore since the end of the Cold War,” wrote Andrew Clark for The Guardian.
\n\nThe 10 Russian agents, or “illegals” as they were called inside the Department of Justice, were the most fascinating espionage case in years, but there was no face to it. Digging through the trenches, the…
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