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As the FSB has declared on Tuesday it caught an undercover CIA agent red-handed in Moscow, RT looks back at major spy scandals which overshadowed Russias relations with the West in the new millennium, long since the Cold War is over.
One of the biggest spy scandals between Moscow and Washington, since the end of the Cold War, occurred three years ago, when the FBI uncovered a network of Russian sleeper spies.
Ten people including the now-famous, tabloid favorite Anna Chapman were arrested in the US in June 2010. Shortly after, they were expelled from American soil later after being traded for four American spies serving jail terms in Russia. The prisoner swap the biggest since the fall of the Iron Curtain - took place in Vienna on July 9, 2010.
Many of the Russian agents had been working undercover in the US for years and had their homes and families in America. On their return to Russia the agents were given the highest state awards. The spy scandal has brought world fame to 'femme fatale' Chapman who posed for Maxim magazine and now works as a TV-show presenter on a Russian channel.
The eleventh member of the Russian spy ring was caught in Cyprus, but vanished after being released on bail. The whereabouts of the alleged spy as well as his real name are still unknown to the public. The man in his mid-fifties was alleged to have been using the identity of a Canadian boy, Christopher Metsos, who died at the age of 5.
Russian counter-intelligence service has not been twiddling their thumbs tohugh. In May 2010, Russian national Gennady Sipachev was found guilty of passing classified military maps to the Pentagon. Investigators believe the US could use the maps to make the targeting of American cruise missiles against sites in Russia more accurate. Sipachev was sentenced to only four years out of a possible 20 in jail since he made a plea bargain with the prosecutors and actively cooperated with investigators.
One of the biggest spy scandals between Moscow and Washington, since the end of the Cold War, occurred three years ago, when the FBI uncovered a network of Russian sleeper spies.
Ten people including the now-famous, tabloid favorite Anna Chapman were arrested in the US in June 2010. Shortly after, they were expelled from American soil later after being traded for four American spies serving jail terms in Russia. The prisoner swap the biggest since the fall of the Iron Curtain - took place in Vienna on July 9, 2010.
Many of the Russian agents had been working undercover in the US for years and had their homes and families in America. On their return to Russia the agents were given the highest state awards. The spy scandal has brought world fame to 'femme fatale' Chapman who posed for Maxim magazine and now works as a TV-show presenter on a Russian channel.
The eleventh member of the Russian spy ring was caught in Cyprus, but vanished after being released on bail. The whereabouts of the alleged spy as well as his real name are still unknown to the public. The man in his mid-fifties was alleged to have been using the identity of a Canadian boy, Christopher Metsos, who died at the age of 5.
Russian counter-intelligence service has not been twiddling their thumbs tohugh. In May 2010, Russian national Gennady Sipachev was found guilty of passing classified military maps to the Pentagon. Investigators believe the US could use the maps to make the targeting of American cruise missiles against sites in Russia more accurate. Sipachev was sentenced to only four years out of a possible 20 in jail since he made a plea bargain with the prosecutors and actively cooperated with investigators.
