I guess if the Russians are willing to swap her and the others, then there can't be too much doubt about her guilt.
There is a video attached to this article in which the mother of Anna Chapman discusses her desire to launch a court case against the newspapers who have published pictures of her from Facebook, etc. Doesn't take long these days before people start ringing the lawyers or in this case go on TV and start canvassing for a suitable ambulance chaser.
No mention made of suing over the use of the nude picture presumably because it belonged to the boyfriend and he sold it to the papers
Russian spy claims swap in works for spies in US
July 8, 2010 - 9:45AM
The Cold War-style intrigue over a reputed spy ring nabbed in the United States is deepening with word emerged of a possible scheme to swap Russians who hid in American suburbia for an imprisoned arms-control researcher and others who passed secrets to the US.
Dmitry Sutyagin says his brother Igor, who is serving a 14-year prison term, was told he is among convicted spies who are to be exchanged for Russians arrested by the FBI.
Officials from both the United States and Russia refused to comment on the claim, but Dmitry Sutyagin said his brother could be whisked off to Vienna and then to London for a planned exchange as early as Thursday.
In the US, American officials met with the Russian ambassador in Washington and a hearing for three alleged spies was cancelled in Virginia. They were ordered to New York along with two other alleged spies who waived their right to a local hearing in Boston.
The other five defendants were already in custody in New York.
Igor Sutyagin was told by Russian officials that he and other convicted spies are to be exchanged for the 10 Russians arrested by the FBI last month, his brother said. US officials were also at the meeting held Monday at a prison in Arkhangelsk, in northwestern Russia, his brother said.
The spy swap, if confirmed, would continue a pattern of spy exchanges began during the Cold War. In one of those most famous cases, downed US U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers was exchanged for KGB spy Colonel Rudolph Abel in 1962.
Sutyagin said he was forced to sign a confession, although he maintains his innocence and does not want to leave Russia, his homeland, his brother said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Federal Penitentiary Service said they had no comment on the claim and a spokesman for the US Embassy was not immediately available for comment.
Sutyagin, who worked as an arms control and military analyst at the Moscow-based USA and Canada Institute, a top think tank, was arrested in 1999 and convicted in 2004 on charges of passing information on nuclear submarines and other weapons to a British company that investigators claimed was a CIA cover. Sutyagin has all along denied that he was spying, saying the information he provided was available from open sources.
His case was one of several incidents of Russian academics and scientists being targeted by Russia's Federal Security Service and accused of misusing classified information, revealing state secrets or, in some cases, espionage.
An 11th suspect in the spy ring, Christopher Metsos, was arrested in Cyprus last week, but disappeared after being released on bail, triggering a manhunt by embarrassed Cypriot authorities.
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