Russian Spies

The Russian Spy, Chapman, Spooked Before Arrest

Called father with worries. 

Little did she know the feds were already on to her: In late June, "hottie" Russian spy Anna Chapman phoned her father, a former KGB member working for Moscow's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, worried about her recent communication with an FBI informant. The call, in which she expressed anxiety that her cover would be blown, prompted the FBI to move more quickly in their planned arrests of the 10 Russian "illegals," as the feds were concerned that Chapman's communication with Moscow might prompt Russia's foreign intelligence agency SVR to summon the deep-cover agents back to Moscow, or at least out of the U.S. The FBI had hoped that informants could get Chapman and a newbie spy to commit acts that would put them in the position to be indicted for charges other than carrying out secret communication with Russia. Chapman's meeting with an informant who asked her to go above and beyond what SVR had typically asked of her inspired her to call her father.