Russian Spy Ring

• FBI releases surveillance tapes of Anna Chapman

  The FBI on Monday released surveillance tapes, photos and hundreds of pages of documents that shed new light on operation "Ghost Stories," the bureau's investigation of a ring of Russian sleeper agents that ended after more than a decade in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.

• US woman charged with smuggling 3 night vision rifle scopes to Russia

  Federal authorities have charged a Dallas-area woman with trying to smuggle three night-vision rifle sights to Russia.A federal court affidavit filed in New York accuses 24-year-old Anna Fermanova of suburban Plano of trying tried to move the scopes in March without the proper export licenses.The document says the devices were seized as Fermanova w...

• Anna Chapman, photogenic spy, emerges on Facebook in Russia

  Two weeks after 10 Russian spies flew back from the United States to Moscow, the buzz of interest around the ring's most photogenic member, the feisty redhead Anna Chapman, shows no signs of receding.While Chapman remains in an unknown location since her arrival in Moscow, reportedly being debriefed, she has apparently found time to write enigmatic...

• Alleged Russian spy no Mata Hari, says mother

  The Russian girl accused by the United States of acting as a Kremlin agent and branded by the media as a flame-haired femme fatale is "no Mata Hari" but an average young woman, her mother said on Wednesday.Anna Chapman, who kept the name of her British ex-husband, is fiercely independent and driven but never stood out as above average among her pee...

• Thousands of Russian spies in US: ex-CIA agent

  There are thousands of Russian secret agents currently living in the United States, claims a former double agent who worked for the CIA."I would say there are a few thousand here," said Boris Korczak, a former double agent who was spying on the KGB from 1973-1980."Out of 1,000 spies, one or two will perform, will get access to our nuclear secrets,"...

• Now, Cyprus hunts for 'Russian spy paymaster'

  Russian money and influence have long made a splash on this Mediterranean resort island where a suspected spy paymaster vanished after being allowed to walk free on bail.The ties go right to the top, Russian energy giant Lukoil has a big presence, and the Greek Cypriot president, a communist who studied in Moscow, is expecting an illustrious visito...

• Prosecutors: Suspect in Russian spy ring confessed

  One of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to federal agents that he worked for Russia's intelligence service, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.The revelation came on a day when several defendants in the case were making court appearances, even as authorities scoured a Mediterranean island for an alleged co-conspirator who disappe...