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She normally keeps her distance from foreign journalists,

but Anna Chapman agreed to meet us on the set of her TV show.

Every single being is interested in mysteries

because they're secrets, you know, they're unsolved.

Are you considering devoting one of the programmes

to secrets of Anna Chapman?

The secrets of your own life as a secret agent?

Absolutely not. SHE CHUCKLES

Anna Chapman, the accused spy

who some call the femme fatale of this operation...

Their goal was to blend in,

gather information for Russia and recruit people.

Mr President, welcome to London.

There are ten Russian spies prepared to cut our guts out.

SOLDIERS ALL SHOUT

We will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat.

Putin's Russia is the enemy of the West.

Invisible ink, secret meetings and coded messages.

It has it all.

The game of espionage is life or death.

Radioactive poison on the streets of London.

She was naturally talented, very intelligent,

and she was extremely dangerous.

So, you deny being a secret agent?

As I said before, numerous of times,

I will never deny and I will never confirm the fact.

This whole story starts in about 2001.

I was living in Brighton and I was in my late 20s.

I was DJing a lot

and having an amazing time in my life,

but also waking up to the big picture.

Thank you very much.

I was going on an inner journey

to work out this whole life existence mystery,

and I ended up going to have an adventure in Africa.

So I thought I'd take my records with me.

One night, I ended up getting a gig in a club...

...and at the end of the night,

this girl walked by wearing a white hoodie

so I could just see her little cute face poking through.

We kind of caught eyes and I ushered her over.

She was highly seductive.

She's, like, got this piercing seduction

just oozing from her being.

Well, I haven't met any girls that have that power.

I realised she was Russian

and that made the whole thing quite exciting.

She gave me her number and tells me her name.

Little did I know where this whole thing was going

and how crazy this whole situation was.

And here I am today, 20-odd years later,

still talking about it.

In 2010, the FBI were told

of this new young female Russian spy coming to New York.

And her name was Anna Chapman.

Anna quickly became the face of the story and the investigation.

Alpha, Bravo, Charlie. Mark it.

I'm Ed Foley. I spent 36 years in surveillance.

I always joked with some of my partners over the years,

I said if I ever wrote a book,

it would be "If The Public Only Knew".

Because everyone is oblivious.

At any given time in Manhattan,

it's riddled with spies from around the world,

and there's a half a dozen operations going on.

When I first started, the Cold War was technically still on.

It was still the Soviet Union.

You grew up with it,

us versus them type of mentality and communism versus the West.

The Soviet organisation of terror threatens our freedom,

our way of life, our country.

Back then, we were tasked to follow

known intelligence officers who were here in New York City,

who had worked in the consulates or the UN,

and had that protection of diplomatic cover.

Those old school, professionally trained intelligence officers.

At 10.30 last night, the FBI caught a big one,

a colonel at the Soviet embassy in Washington.

The FBI said he had just picked up some classified US documents.

But by 2010, it's a different world.

I knew that the tides have shifted, if you will.

The first time we worked Anna - you notice her red hair?

She's young. She was maybe 28.

So I'm like, all right, you know,

give me a redhead as a surveillance person,

I'll follow 'em all day.

She's got a blue jacket on, which is great for surveillance.

We love loud colours. You stick out. My team's not going to lose her.

She came here on a house-hunting trip.

She was looking at apartments. She was looking at some nice areas,

so it's clear to see that she has some money.

Despite being so young,

she was going to put roots down and live here.

So she wound up living at 20 Exchange Place.

Her rent was maybe, you know,

$4,000 or $5,000 a month or something.

When I was 28, I couldn't afford that.

Still can't afford that.

Which was a red flag.

That's not normal, you know.

Where is she getting this money from?

One of the telltale signs

of what Anna Chapman was sent here to do came from

a covert communications message that her handlers in Moscow sent.

You were sent here for intelligence gathering

to make connections in policy-making circles,

to develop intelligence networks here inside the United States.

Everything that you have here,

your home, your car, is and belongs to Russia.

We discovered that Anna was actually a UK national

coming here to the United States under a business visa.

What her ties were while she was in the UK, it's unclear to us.

And that's where our investigation started.

Welcome to President Putin,

who I'm delighted to welcome here to London.

This has been his first trip to the West

since assuming the huge powers and challenges

that come with the Russian presidency.

I'm Roderic Lyne.

I became the British Ambassador in Moscow

about two weeks after Putin became the acting President.

Throughout that period, the British were part of a big Western effort

to bury the Cold War

and bring Russia much more closely into the fold.

We said we no longer consider each other as adversaries.

We are going to work together.

Putin decided that Russia's future should lie

by building closer relations with the West.

The Russian economy was in pretty dire straits.

They needed help.

The Prime Minister drinking vodka with President Putin

in a Moscow bar.

Tony Blair saw that there was an opportunity.

Here was a guy who wanted to be friends.

In that first year, we were providing as much help

as we possibly could to help Russia get back on its feet.

The United Kingdom has become

a major hub for Russian oligarchs and their wealth,

with London gaining the moniker "Londongrad".

And of course, unless there was a good reason not to give

a Russian a visa, we would grant visas to Russians.

Later that summertime,

I got back to England with this memory,

thinking about this Russian girl I just met.

And then suddenly, out of the blue, she called.

She wanted to come and visit, but she said,

"I need to get a couple of signatures

"for my visa to come through."

I said, "No problem. I'll ask some friends."

And she came. HE CHUCKLES

She gave me her flight details. She was arriving at Heathrow.

Suddenly, I saw this girl walk along.

She was wearing a short T-shirt with a red star.

Better.

And I don't think Anna had been to England before.

She was wide-eyed and seemed really happy to be there.

We... Yeah, we got really close straight away.

We were sharing the same bed the first night

and it was like we were meant to be together.

We had so much fun in Brighton.

Anya used to really like me being her own personal chauffeur.

I was driving these cranky stretch limousines

at the time as a job.

And she'd sit right at the back so I could see her in the mirror,

just this, like, classy young Russian girl

being taken somewhere posh.

From the very beginning, the air of mystique she carried

with her was consistent.

I never really knew, ever, what was going on in their mind.

The information I did have was very minimal.

Obviously, she told me her name and she told me she was Russian,

but the only thing that really struck me

in getting to know her was when she told me her dad was in the KGB.

In the mythology of Russian spies, the KGB are seen

as the most valuable spies in the Cold War.

The people willing to do what it took

to protect the motherland,

to protect the regime, using the most ruthless methods.

Vladimir Putin was a former KGB man.

It is at the core of his identity,

of his training, of how he sees the world.

When the Cold War ended, a lot of people thought,

this kind of old school spying,

well, this is the past. It's history.

It's a magnificent setting for the signing

of a treaty which says that we're friends,

that, uh...

...that we're going to cast aside old doubts

and suspicions and welcome a new era

between the relations between your great country and our country.

But the truth is, Russian spying hasn't stopped.

Whether it's spreading misinformation

and conspiracy theories,

whether it's running agents and influence operations,

that is what they do.

CROWD CHANTING

Thank you.

America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

And the problem is, we forgot our history,

closed our eyes to it.

We were all trying to make nice with the Russians.

With old friends and former foes,

we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

The reality was that Russia remained a superpower.

They had thousands of nuclear weapons,

missiles and bombers that were pointed largely

at the United States and Western Europe.

So from a national security perspective,

there was very much an adversarial relationship.

SOLDIERS ALL SHOUT

Anna Chapman became the tip of the spear.

We knew the fact that obviously,

that she was the daughter of a Russian intel officer.

So that right there set off our Spidey senses.

When it came to traditional spycraft and discipline

from highly trained, hyper vigilant intelligence officers,

she didn't have anything like that, but she didn't have to.

She was naturally talented, very intelligent,

and in a lot of ways a stunner, right?

This is probably the best way to describe it.

Her ways of doing things were laser focused.

It's the oldest trick in the book, right? Seduction.

She knew exactly what she was doing.

One of the most important aspects of the investigation was surveillance.

We needed teams to develop a pattern of life for Anna Chapman.

With any surveillance, you're identifying contacts,

seeing what they are interested in, what they're tasked to do,

any anomalies or break from the norm

that you can exploit for the investigative side.

She was pretty uneventful during the day,

just a normal 28-year-old, going shopping at the supermarket,

doing Bikram yoga.

Very, very routine.

But at night, it was a different story.

Bad Guy by Billie Eilish

She is a young socialite in Manhattan

who loves going out at night.

♪ White shirt now red, my bloody nose... ♪

On the night shifts, we followed her all over town.

She would get picked up and shuttled around

in fancy cars or high-end limos.

♪ So you're a tough guy... ♪

We watched her come out dressed to the nines

and go out to these clubs

that were VIP-only accesses,

different parties, things like that.

We couldn't get too close to her,

but one of my team members was monitoring her social media.

Anna became very good at the nightclub scene,

networking, socialising.

There was just a lot of movement.

We were able to see who she came out with,

and it seemed like there were multiple boyfriends.

She was mission driven and did whatever it took,

with whomever it took, to get whatever she needed to

for the betterment of the Russian intelligence service.

There was one night that changed everything.

I wanted to give Anya, like, a good club night out,

so we went up to this really good techno night up in London.

Anya, funnily enough, was wearing the white hoodie again,

which she was wearing the first night I met her.

She kind of got up and wandered off and started talking to this guy.

She must have been in there talking to him for two or three hours.

The whole thing was like... "Oh, what's going on?"

She said, "I ended up really connecting with him."

So, you know, went out with a girlfriend,

she met somebody else and off she went.

His name was Alex Chapman.

First time I heard about Anya,

I was working with Alex at Sony.

He loved listening to music, going out to events.

Alex turned up after a weekend

and he was brimming with enthusiasm over this new Russian girl

he'd sort of got involved with,

and how attractive and wonderful she was.

Quite rapidly he announced, "We're getting married."

I always remember him saying,

"Well, you know, it's rock and roll, isn't it?

"You've got to get a few marriages under your belt."

I was, you know, a bit shocked.

I don't know any details about how it came about,

but it seemed quite sudden to me.

It was quite a rush.

They'd gone on this lavish honeymoon in Zimbabwe.

It was exotic and he was quite taken back.

I think it was more than he'd expected, you know.

After he got back from the honeymoon,

they were living in London.

He was into music and partying,

just a laidback kind of London lifestyle.

But she started getting involved

in more high level kind of circles, social circles.

Can I have another cigarette, please?

I'm a confident guy.

My name is Nicholas Camilleri. I'm a capital markets financier.

In the 2000s, London was a great place to be.

There was lots of money around, there was a big social circuit.

We used to go out every night of the week.

We used to start out in a restaurant,

and then we used to go to nightclubs.

Tuesday night to Boujis, Wednesday night to Annabel's,

Thursday night to Tramp, Friday night to a private party.

Every week, yeah.

For ten years, you know.

Yeah.

At that time, there were Russians everywhere.

Wealthy people, bankers, property owners,

investors, hedge fund managers.

And there were lots of Russian women.

One night I organised a dinner and I invited a Mayfair socialite,

and she showed up with

this very beautiful Russian redhead called Anya Chapman.

Tall, redhead, green eyes, and very beautiful.

I was seated next to her and I found her very charming,

very intelligent.

Anna was working as a teller at Barclays Bank,

and she said she wanted something more... exciting.

So I gave her a job as my personal assistant.

Unclear, you know, when she would have been recruited.

Obviously, she was very young, probably 25, 26.

But she really started getting developed, I think,

during the time span that we had this investigation open.

Anna quickly became operational.

On one day, we knew it was a meet,

but it wasn't a traditional meet that we're used to.

There was no physical meeting somebody.

There was no handshake at a bus stop.

If you look at the video,

there was just a young woman shopping

at the cosmetic counter in Saks Fifth Avenue.

And then there's a guy across the street in Rockefeller Plaza.

It just so happens that we had a separate investigation

into this individual, who we knew was here

under non-official cover

for the Russian intelligence service.

And now he was there too.

We were like, well, that can't be a coincidence, right?

It's the middle of the day,

and we see Anna Chapman perusing around Saks Fifth Avenue.

And it's odd - there's no real reason for her to be there.

Roughly 60 yards across Fifth Avenue

into Rockefeller Plaza,

standing there with a bag,

was her Russian handler.

There's no real reason for him to be there

at Rockefeller Centre, right?

He's got a day job where he should be.

So this is not normal behaviour.

As we're assigned to work Anna,

our objective was to be even more vigilant than usual,

because she's outfitted with a laptop.

We keyed in on this bag because we had seen her before

have a little laptop in this bag.

We took pictures to see if the weight looked different.

Maybe she had the laptop in the bag.

That would tip us off that she may be operational,

versus just out for a stroll.

That individual has a computer in his bag

that is identifying a signal in the air

from Anna's laptop in her bag.

The computers recognised each other.

They perform an electronic handshake that sends information one way

and then sends future taskings another way.

Totally undetectable to anyone who's watching.

Technically, as far as how to detect it from the air,

that's, you know, much above my expertise level,

but physically, you can never know

that Anna Chapman met with anyone, really.

It's the new breed of spycraft, moving away from personal meets.

Everything was this Wi-Fi exchange.

They didn't tell me, so, you know,

we're not going to tell you, I guess.

HE CHUCKLES

These meets were really designed to test her ability

to carry out specific instructions and tasks that they gave her.

She kind of, quite frankly, just took it in stride

in a very short period of time.

I mean, she's a very savvy individual

and that's exactly why they would have picked her.

The Russians are the best, right, in this space.

And the reason for that is, is they take

a 20, 30 year time horizon when it comes to developing agents.

Mr President, it is a great pleasure for me

to welcome you and Mrs Putina to London,

and to underline once more

the close friendship between our two countries.

When Putin came here in 2003,

he was playing the part and he played the role.

He's good at that. He's a chameleon.

It is clear for everyone that in spite of the differences

that existed before, today we need to act jointly.

Mr President.

GLASSES CLINK

The intelligence that we had, from the moment

Putin stepped into office, really, was very concerning.

The reality is that he is a man

with a very high degree of anger and vengeance.

Putin and the KGB officers that were running the government

viewed the West as a massive threat to Russia.

A massive military exercise

described by Russian officials

as the largest in more than 20 years.

Putin insists the latest weaponry isn't directed

at the United States.

He has the paranoid view of a KGB man

who sees threats everywhere against his homeland,

and who sees it as his job to combat those threats.

Putin is projecting himself as a leader

bent on restoring Russia's military power and global clout.

He believes that he is the one who's going to restore Russia

to its true status as a great power.

That is dangerous because the tools he's willing to use to do that

include assassins, cyber attacks, sabotage,

and the deep cover spies operating around the world.

Anna was a social climber.

She liked to be part of a scene.

I used to like showing up with her to business lunches

and nights when we used to take clients out on the town.

They were all enamoured by her, just like I was.

She was very confident,

and that's very important when you run in those circles.

She spoke very good English.

She had an English husband at the time.

Anna never told me much about her personal life.

I just knew that she was married. Separated, but married.

Through her social endeavours,

she fell in love with this French guy,

a very wealthy financier.

And she wound up becoming his live-in girlfriend.

It was probably two or three years.

Life had gone by,

and out of the blue I got a call from Anya.

I think she was reaching out for some help,

a little bit of support.

I don't think she had many friends at the time,

and we never really fell out at the time we parted,

so I went to see her up in London.

She had a big fancy flat somewhere in Mayfair.

You know, it didn't surprise me that she was living

this type of lifestyle.

When I was with her,

she was expecting me to buy her presents all the time.

You know, different culture,

totally different person altogether.

She told me she was fascinated with billionaires.

And so, I was kind of starting to join the dots a little bit

about who she was, really.

Looking back, a couple of friends did suggest

that maybe she was using me to get in the country.

I think whatever happened between us was definitely real.

But maybe, yes, I was a stepping stone

to get on her path to become a spy.

Theoretically, Anna's cover was that she was a realtor,

starting a business to sell New York City properties to Russians.

I never saw her show any properties,

but, yeah, that was that was what she purported to be.

Anna was a young entrepreneur.

She was looking to develop, essentially,

a real estate website for buying and selling real estate.

And really, she wanted it to be like an international brand.

One, two, three, four.

La, la, la, la, la.

La, la, la.

When a good looking red-headed girl walks in the room,

every guy's attention turns and everyone wants to know

what company she works for, who she represents.

I will, uh, shop.

I will shop, I will have a business meeting at two o'clock.

My name is Aron Schoenfeld. One.

I got involved in the whole entrepreneurial scene in New York.

We were working with start-ups, and we used to do some small events,

and it came to the events and she clearly stood out.

It's really making me hot, this one.

We wanted to do a video shoot of her about Entrepreneur Week.

Anna actually came over to me at one of the events

and she's like, "This company sounds really cool.

"Can you make that introduction for me?"

So I facilitated that introduction and then it gradually became,

"Hey, do you know this person?

"Do you know that person? When's your next event?"

And I thought, she's an entrepreneur looking to grow.

This girl really knows how to hustle.

Now I know a lot of people that introduced me to someone else,

and those introduced me to someone else.

So now I know where to go if I have something to solve.

I remember at an event,

we introduced her to the head of an international ad agency.

He was very powerful, knew a lot of people.

Politicians went to the parties.

They would leave together.

I think they both lived down near Wall Street.

I don't think in our heads, we had any doubt

what was going on with them.

For all I know, they were sharing an apartment at a certain point.

She has a high degree of emotional intelligence,

so she is able to make connections

with people in a very easy and fluid way.

It comes natural to her.

A couple months after the event, we had another event.

This is the place to do business.

She would show up with that CEO of the global ad agency,

or the CEO of that entertainment technology,

and they would come in together.

When she came to a party and she left with someone,

you kind of had the idea that something more was going on.

She was able to exact favours from men as a result of that.

You know, many of those favours were funding her lavish lifestyle.

Thank you. Nice job.

She was with the powerful people that had access

to the other powerful people,

and we just thought it was to raise funding for her company.

But...

CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING

Given her technique, if you will, to keep it professional,

she was extremely dangerous.

She didn't sleep around with anybody.

She could have been the First Lady of New York City.

No.

I was never aware

of any infiltration of any spies in London.

I never questioned that she used to like going out,

she used to like going to parties, going to clubs.

One night I took Anya to Movida, a prominent London nightclub,

and sitting at the next table was Boris Berezovsky.

And he was very infamous.

He was Russia's richest man,

and he was forced to leave Russia by Putin,

and he resettled in the UK.

I interviewed Boris Berezovsky once in his office -

in Mayfair, where else?

The richest, most exclusive part of London.

Big Mercedes car waiting outside with his chauffeur.

Lots of flunkies and people around him.

He was Putin's enemy,

and you could sense this was a person

who was building a power base in London to plot against Putin.

It's very important that West recognise

who is Mr Putin, finally.

And the answer is, Mr Putin is criminal.

I introduced Boris to Anya,

and he was quite enamoured by her,

and he wound up buying her a bottle of champagne,

and she gave him her business card.

The next day, he called her up and invited her to lunch,

and he sent a car to pick her up from my office in Mayfair,

and she went to lunch with him daily.

It became a daily habit.

It's not clear exactly when Anna Chapman became

Anna Chapman, the spy.

I mean, some people have speculated that she was sent to Britain

in the first place to become a spy, to get a passport, to get cover.

Others believe it was during her time in Britain

that her value became clear and she was recruited.

They could see she could get close to influential people,

people like Boris Berezovsky.

That is something very valuable to Russian intelligence.

Once, Vladimir Putin described people in two groups,

one of them enemies, other one traitors.

Enemy, he might call people working as a journalist.

Traitors, mostly people who worked in the same system

what Vladimir Putin belongs to.

And my husband Alexander Litvinenko,

and Boris Berezovsky, was one of them.

Putin said if you be traitor, you need to be destroyed.

UNTRANSLATED RUSSIAN SPEECH

Traitors will kick the bucket, trust me.

These people betrayed their friends, their brothers in arms.

Whatever they got in exchange for it,

those 30 pieces of silver they were given,

they will choke on them.

I'm Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense,

former Director of the CIA, former Member of Congress,

former Chief of Staff to the President.

President Bush said that he looked into Putin's eyes

and could see somebody who he could relate to.

And Bob Gates, former Secretary of Defense,

made the comment

that when he looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin,

he saw KGB, KGB, KGB.

For all of the symbols of rapprochement,

Putin was a hardliner.

A lot of politicians failed to understand

the psychology, the mentality, the history,

the culture that they were up against.

Russia is led by its intelligence and security apparatus,

but it has an incredibly powerful dark side.

And that dark side is incredibly bloody.

This was the arrest

of Russia's most wealthy man, Mikhail Khodorkovsky,

by President Putin's secret service, the FSB.

President Putin's critics claim the arrest is an attempt

to stifle Khodorkovsky's support for opposition groups.

Russia plays hardball.

They don't follow the rules.

An award-winning Russian journalist known

for her critical coverage of the war in Chechnya

has been shot dead in her Moscow apartment block.

Anna Politkovskaya was an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin

and had received numerous death threats.

Vladimir Putin was trying to tighten his grip on power,

trying to go after his enemies,

and he was even willing to kill them.

I met my husband, Sasha, Alexander Litvinenko,

when he started to work for security service, FSB.

I remember it was end of July 1998, and he said, "We have a new boss."

I said, who is his boss? He said, "Somebody from Saint Petersburg."

Sasha was involved in one internal investigation

about corruption in FSB,

and Berezovsky asked him to meet Putin to discuss this case.

Berezovsky believed Putin might agree to do something,

but Sasha from this meeting immediately realised

it's nothing going to be changed.

Putin has not any interest of this.

Almost straight after that,

Sasha and his colleagues went to a press conference.

Suddenly we have a group of officers from FSB

talking about corruption, and this is all on prime time TV.

I was really proud of him.

But everybody were shocked.

And, uh, it became news number one.

After that, Putin tried to destroy my husband.

He definitely would be sentenced,

he might be prosecuted,

and he might be killed.

Just a few months after that, we escaped from Russia,

and finally, we stopped here in UK.

Sasha was nervous.

I tried to say, "No, no, no, they're not going to kill people abroad."

He said, "No, Marina, it's serious."

This all happened almost in the same time

Boris Berezovsky decided to settle here in London,

and Sasha's concern was, of course, most about Boris Berezovsky.

Alexander Litvinenko told me that Boris...

They signed decree, Putin signed the law

which allow them to kill people abroad

if they identify them as enemies, without any court.

And they will try to kill us.

The Home Secretary granted political asylum to Boris Berezovsky.

GLASS TINGS

I ask you to give a very warm welcome to Mr Boris Berezovsky.

APPLAUSE

That went down very badly in Moscow.

I was in a meeting with the head of their domestic security service,

the ex-KGB General Patrushev,

a very close associate of Putin.

He said, "Your government must send Berezovsky back here..."

I used to let Anna stay out for two hours

at lunchtime to have lunch with Boris every day.

She used to come back to me

and tell me what Boris said over lunch,

and she used to say how much he hated Putin,

and he was a vocal critic.

The West should recognise that Russia is not partner.

Russia is not ally. Russia is real...

Putin's Russia, Putin's Russia is real enemy of the West.

Putin saw both Berezovsky and later Litvinenko

as personal enemies

who were delving into areas which were across a red line.

Putin has said in public, in Russia on the media,

that any intelligence officer that betrays the country

is a piece of scum who'll be hunted down like a dog.

November 1st of 2006 was a day when we celebrated

our British citizenship, and we were very happy.

But this all changed after midnight when Sasha became extremely sick.

Like in the movie,

you can say your whole life changed from before and after.

He believed it was poisoning from very beginning.

From his hospital bed, Litvinenko's last words

were a message for Russia's President Putin,

relayed to the world by his friend Alex Goldfarb.

You may succeed in silencing one man,

but the howl of protest from around the world will reverberate,

Mr Putin, in your ears for the rest of your life.

May God forgive you.

In Sasha's death statement,

it was obvious he accused Vladimir Putin of killing him.

The body of Alexander Litvinenko

contained a large quantity of highly radioactive material,

and it had to have been ingested.

It fell out of the blue.

The claim that Russia and the Russian state had been using

radioactive poison on the streets of London.

And yet, there it was.

It was reckless, it was dangerous,

and literally hundreds of people could have died.

From London to Moscow, the poisoning death

of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko

has investigators scouring for contamination.

Putin personally behind this.

Putin personally organised this crime.

Exactly what Alexander Litvinenko told me,

that, "Boris, they will try to kill us."

And he unfortunately was correct.

And I'm not able to exclude at all

that they are trying to do the same against of me.

How worried are you about your own safety?

It's one thing to do it in Russia.

It's an entirely different thing to do that in the UK,

and it's yet a further step to try and do that in the United States.

And of course, then, the big question,

at the end, what does that next chapter look like?

CAR HORNS BLARING

Over the course of this investigation,

we became aware that there was a pattern

to Anna's operational activity.

It was usually every two weeks where she would be

virtually meeting her Russian handler.

These would take place at Starbucks coffee shops

throughout Manhattan.

So she would be sitting there, maybe on her phone

or, you know, with her coffee in front of her, eating something.

And the Russian handler would drive by in his vehicle,

or in the instance of Saks, you know,

be standing across the street.

This happened every two weeks.

So, Saks Fifth Avenue happened to be one of the locations.

Starbucks here in downtown.

There was another Starbucks within a Barnes and Noble,

like, right in Midtown where this happened.

So she iterated through a series of sites.

It's pre-planned, the covert communication system,

the messages back and forth,

the operational acts which we have videos of.

It wasn't just Anna Chapman.

It became clear that this was a network.

There's this massive group of deep cover officers

within the United States

who are trying to develop and steal America's closest secrets.

There were ten spies out there and the FBI was following all ten spies.

They're active in Washington, DC, they're active in New York.

They're active in London.

It's going on today in capitals around the world.

This is really warfare.

In President Medvedev, I've found a solid and reliable partner.

You've got President Medvedev from Russia

meeting with President Obama in Washington, DC.

But at the same time, we needed to go and arrest the network.

It's happening fast and furious.

Ten people have been arrested, accused of being Russian spies.

One is said to have even used a British passport.

Suddenly, I've got MI5 looking for me

and my ex-girlfriend is accused of being a Russian spy.

Anna Chapman, a 28-year-old... Anna Chapman... Anna Chapman...

We uncovered dead body after dead body.

Every case was someone who may have had a connection to Russia.

I don't think that happens by coincidence.

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