Sexpot Russian spook Anna Chapman was on the brink of snaring a member of President Obama‘s inner circle in a seduction “honey trap” when FBI agents busted her bush-league spy ring and sent them packing, an FBI chief revealed.
According to the British newspaper The Independent, C. Frank Figliuzzi, the FBI’s assistant director of counterintelligence, told the BBC in a recent interview that the ginger-haired bombshell’s relationship with a member of Obama’s cabinet was allegedly getting “close enough to disturb us.”
In fact, Chapman’s temptress vamp act with “higher and higher ranking leadership” was the final straw that prompted the agency to break up the amateurish sleeper cell in 2010, Figliuzzi said.
“We were becoming very concerned,” Figliuzzi said. “They were getting close enough to a sitting U.S. cabinet member that we thought we could no longer allow this to continue.”
Figliuzzi, whose interview was part of the BBC’s new two-part series “Modern Spies,” refused to mention which Obama confidant Chapman got too cuddly with, The Independent reported.
In an email to the Daily News, a spokeswoman for the FBI said Figliuzzi never told the BBC that Chapman got close to a cabinet member and that the BBC show was misquoted by The Independent.
“Mr. Figliuzzi’s comments to BBC were consistent with and confined to the information outlined in the criminal complaint that was filed nearly two years ago. There is no allegation or suggestion in the complaint that Anna Chapman or anyone else associated with this investigation attempted to seduce a U.S. Cabinet official.”
Justice Department officials told ABC News that Chapman’s fellow spook, Cynthia Murphy, was the spy who was trying to infiltrate Obama’s inner circle, not Chapman.
“Modern Spies” didn’t air in the U.S. and clips of the show, including one appearing to feature Figliuzzi, were not available online.
The Russian squad’s 10 members were booted back to Moscow in July 2010 in exchange for four Russians who were jailed for spying for the West.
Since returning home, Chapman, who worked in Manhattan real estate, has appeared in movies and on the runway, was featured nude in Playboy, snagged several endorsement deals and hosted her own television show, “Secrets of the World With Anna Chapman.”
