4 beautiful Russian female spies in America
Around 2000,
FBI agents learned there were multiple sets of Russian spies in the United
States, posing as Americans.
The spies were trained in Russia to assimilate
into everyday American life by getting married, obtaining jobs and raising
families, while also sending encoded messages back home. The spies lived double
lives.
Anna
Chapman
Anna
Vasilyevna Chapman was born on 23 February 1982, is a Russian intelligence
agent, media personality and model who was arrested in the United States on 27
June 2010.
At the time
of her arrest, she was accused of espionage on behalf of the Russian Federation's
external intelligence agency, she had previously gained British citizenship
through marriage, which she used to gain residency in the U.S.
Anna
Chapman, the Russian spy who was deported from the United States in 2010 after
pleading guilty to conspiracy charges, has apparently combined her twin
interests in international affairs and modeling into the most topical Instagram
account of the year.
Elena Vavilova
Elena was
born on November 16th, 1962, in the Russian city of Tomsk. From 1970 to 1980
she went to a school with intensive study of the German language. During her
childhood and youth she studied ballet, music and journalism. In 1980 she
enrolled to study history at Tomsk State University. After her 3rd year of
University.
She married
Andrey Bezrukov, a fellow student, and together with him moved to Moscow to
begin their training as intelligence officers. Elena eventually graduated from
Tomsk University in 1985 via a distance learning program.
Since the
late 1980s, for almost 25 years she worked as a deep-cover intelligence officer
in several countries under the name of Tracy Lee Ann Foley. Her husband, Andrey
Bezrukov, worked with her under the assumed name of Donald Howard Heathfield.
On June
27th, 2010 Foley and her husband were arrested at their Cambridge townhouse.
The arrest was the result of treason committed by one of their superiors back
in Moscow. Several other Russian intelligence officers were also arrested at
the same time in the USA. After two weeks of imprisonment, the entire group
became the subject of the biggest spy swap between Russia and the USA since the
Cold War. Following orders of her Russian superiors, Vavilova pled guilty in
federal court to being an unlawful agent of the Russian Federation in the
United States and was exchanged, together with nine other agents, for four
prisoners held in Russia. The exchange was conducted in the context of an
overall improvement of relations between Russia and the United States at that
time.
The New
Jersey couple were really Vladimir and Lydia Guryev - trained members of
Russia’s foreign intelligence service.
After years
of training at notorious Russian spy school ‘The Institute’, Vladimir and
Lidiya Guryev were dispatched to the US as Richard and Cynthia Murphy. In the
mid-1990s, they befriended their New Jersey neighbours, started a family and
embarked on a life of deception.
To their
neighbours, Cynthia Murphy was the family’s bread-winner, working in finance in
upstate New York and Richard Murphy was a stay-at-home dad, looking after their
two young daughters. Richard and Cynthia Murphy were, a married couple, but
married only per instructions and arrangement by the Russian Intelligence
Service.
The idea of
sending them to America was to use them as talent spotters. They would be joining
clubs, scientific societies, political organisations, in order to meet
interesting and influential people and to befriend them. And then pass
information about them to Moscow.
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Katya
Mayorova ( Miss KGB)
In 1990, Katya
Mayorova, 23, newly crowned Miss KGB, was the first title-holder of ‘Security Services
Beauty’ with a front-page splash in Komsomolskaya Pravda and a follow-up
feature in The Washington Post. We soon learned that Mayorova wore her
bulletproof vest.
Washington
Post’s David Remnick was one lucky international correspondent who managed to
meet Miss KGB for a short interview sanctioned by Lubyanka, the infamous KGB
headquarters in the center of Moscow.
“On the
appointed day, I went to Lubyanka, where Comrade Mayorova explained to me that
the KGB’s beauty contest, such as it was, took place in ‘private’. She was
wearing an angora sweater. She liked the Beatles. She worked as a secretary,
but was certified in the handling of small arms. ‘They try to give us
all-around skills,’ she said. Assured once more, if in an unexpected form, that
the Soviet Union was in a state of mortal delirium, I thanked Katya and took my
leave,” recalled David Remnick years later.
Some believe
there was no beauty contest whatsoever, but only Vladimir Kryuchkov’s, the head
of the KGB at the time, desire to change the public image of the KGB from an
eerie repressive security apparatus to a state institution serving for the good
of the public.
