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Anna Vasilyevna Chapman (Russian: А́нна Васи́льевна Ча́пман; born Anna Vasilyevna Kushchenko, 23 February 1982) is a former Russian intelligence agent, media personality, and model who was arrested in the United States on 27 June 2010 as part of the Illegals Program, a Russian spy ring.
In the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War, in the time leading up to and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of citizens of the Russian Federation and of other nationalities working for Russia have been identified publicly as spies or agents of the Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR) or the third intelligence arm, the military ...
Sidney George Reilly MC (/ ˈ r aɪ l i /; c. 1873 [a] – 5 November 1925), known as the "Ace of Spies", was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau, [9] the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).
Volk said talks on the spies being part of an exchange began soon after they were arrested. "For a year, talks about this were held with the Russian side in complete secrecy," he told reporters.
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the main successor organisation to the Soviet-era KGB's First Main Directorate, Russia's spies, in retaliation against the CIA, urge Americans to get ...
But Artem Zinchenko isn’t just any spy. He was the first agent of Russia’s military intelligence arrested by Estonia, in 2017, then traded back to Moscow a year later for an Estonian citizen ...
An agreement on intelligence cooperation between Russia and China was signed in 1992. This secret treaty covers cooperation of the GRU GSh VS RF and the SVR RF with the China's Intelligence Bureau of the Joint Staff Department. [14] In 2003 it was reported that SVR RF trained Iraqi spies when Russia collaborated with Saddam Hussein.
The KGB classified its spies as: agents (a person who provides intelligence) and; controllers (a person who relays intelligence). The false-identity (or legend) assumed by a USSR-born illegal spy was elaborate, using the life of either: a "live double" (a participant to the fabrications) or; a "dead double" (whose identity is tailored to the spy).