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Russian spy Anna Chapman 'was close to seducing Obama cabinet official' - HILLARY?
Anna Chapman, the glamorous Russian spy, was close to seducing a sitting member of President Barack Obama's cabinet before she was deported from the United States.
Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI's assistant director of counterintelligence, said Miss Chapman's handlers at Russia's SVR (Foreign Intelligence Service) had intended her to be a "honeytrap" and she had got "closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership".
He added: "She got close enough to disturb us." Chapman was one of ten "illegals" – Russian sleeper agents – who were ejected from the US in July 2010 after their attempts at spying were monitored for several years by the FBI.
The group was previously thought to have been mostly harmless. FBI surveillance suggested the spies were tasked with penetrating US policy-making circles.
However, Figliuzzi said the fear of Miss Chapman ensnaring a particular cabinet member was one of the prime reasons that FBI agents swooped on the Russian spy ring.
"We were becoming very concerned," he told the BBC. "They were getting close enough to a sitting US cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue."
Figliuzzi refused to name the individual concerned but made clear that Miss Chapman caused particular alarm. "I think part of her value was indeed her ability to be engaging, charismatic and I think to that extent she might have been viewed by them as a potential honey trap," he said. "She was getting closer and closer to higher and higher ranking leadership."
Figliuzzi said the cabinet member was warned of the threat.
Miss Chapman has become a minor celebrity since returning to Russia.
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