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AP-APTN-1830: +US Russia 2 Tuesday, 29 June 2010 STORY:+US Russia 2- WRAP Stills of alleged spy ADDS comment from fmr FBI member, spy museum LENGTH: 03:22 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC/AP Photos STORY NUMBER: 649912 DATELINE: Various - 28/29 June 2010/Recent LENGTH: 03:22 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/ FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE ++COURT SKETCHES: COURTESY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS++ SHOTLIST: ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington, DC - 29 June 2010 1. Wide of Peter Earnest, Former CIA Agent and Executive Director of the International Spy Museum, walking through museum 2. Zoom in to concealment devices on display in museum, including vodka bottle, packet of pills, packet of cigarettes 3. Earnest pointing out item with outside resembling a stone, tilt down, UPSOUND: (English) "A sort of concealment device that might be used to send messages or money or diamonds or gold or something to an agent." 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Earnest, Former CIA Agent and Executive Director of the International Spy Museum: "It's almost as if they are collecting gossip, they are trying to meet people who are in think tanks, perhaps in government and talking about different things. You can talk to any American and they'll be happy to talk to you about, you know, Guantanamo or what happened to General McChrystal and so forth, and if that's all they are gathering it seems like an awful lot of effort and money to not get very much." (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/ FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Unknown location, date 5. STILL image taken from a Facebook page showing a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who, along with 10 others, was arrested in the US on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US attorney general 6. STILL different image of woman journalists have identified as Chapman, taken from a Facebook page (FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York, New York - 28 June 2010 7. Various of courthouse (FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY/ COURTESY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS New York, New York - 28 June 2010 8. Court Artist Sketch: pan from left to right of suspects: Anna Chapman, Vicky Pelaez, "Richard Murphy," "Cynthia Murphy," "Juan Lazaro" 9. Court Artist Sketch of "Juan Lazaro" 10. Court Artist Sketch of Anna Chapman and Vicky Pelaez ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington, DC - 29 June 2010 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Earnest, Former CIA Agent and Executive Director of the International Spy Museum: "Some of them were involved in money laundering; getting money, transferring it and so forth. That exposes them to 20 years, now this is a little bit like going after the mafia, and getting them under tax laws right? You're really, they're gangsters. You're trying to get them because they are committing lots of crimes, but you go after them using the tax laws. Wrapping up these people, who are clearly here to commit espionage, to spy using all of the trade craft, the methodology of spying, but we are going to get them on money laundering, and not declaring themselves, it's sort of a lesser charge." (FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Alexandria, Virginia - 28 June 2010 12. Wide tilt up of courthouse 13. Various of exterior of courthouse ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Washington, DC - 29 June 2010 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Earnest, Former CIA Agent and Executive Director of the International Spy Museum: "Rolling in and wrapping up this network, right after Medvedev has visited, you ask yourself, 'are we sending a message?' Are we saying, 'look we know all about this, let's not do this anymore, or don't you do this anymore.' I think it is interesting that this time was chosen to wrap up this network." (FIRST RUN 0030 NEWS UPDATE - 29 JUNE 2010) ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET Arlington, Virginia - 24 June 2010 14. Various of US President Barack Obama having a cheeseburger with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY New York, New York - 29 June 2010 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jack Cloonan, Former FBI Agent: "The response from the Russian Federation, as you can expect, has been very muted at this point. In fact, I think they are saying that there's a lot of imprecise details, which is really code for they got caught with their pants down. And how we will use this, bilaterally speaking, is really intriguing to me." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 29 JUNE 2010) ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/INTERNET Arlington, Virginia - 24 June 2010 16. Medvedev and Obama leaving restaurant STORYLINE The White House said on Tuesday the arrests of 11 people in an alleged Russian spy ring will not affect the relationship between the United States and Russia, as Russia's Foreign Ministry acknowledged that some of the suspects were Russian citizens but said they did nothing to hurt US interests. The FBI announced the arrests of 10 suspects on Monday, and an 11th person allegedly involved in the Russian spy ring was arrested on Tuesday in Cyprus. The 11th suspect, using the name Christopher Metsos and purporting to be a Canadian citizen, was arrested at the Larnaca airport in Cyprus while trying to fly to Budapest, Hungary, police in the Mediterranean island nation said. He was later released on bail. Metsos, 54, was among those named in documents on Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Authorities in Cyprus said he will remain there for one month until extradition proceedings begin. Assistant US Attorney Michael Farbiarz on Monday called the allegations against the other 10 people, living in the Northeast, "the tip of the iceberg" of a conspiracy of Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to collect inside US information. Each of the 10 was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US attorney general, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison upon conviction. Two criminal complaints outlining the charges were filed in US District Court in New York. Most of the suspects were accused of using fake names and claims of US citizenship while really being Russian. It was unclear how and where they were recruited, but court papers say the operation goes back as far as the 1990's and many of the suspects were tracked for years. The timing of the arrests was notable, given the efforts by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev to reset US-Russia relations. The two leaders met last week at the White House after Medvedev visited high-tech firms in California's Silicon Valley, and both attended the G-8 and G-20 meetings over the weekend in Canada. Intelligence on Obama's foreign policy, particularly toward Russia, appears to have been a top priority for the Russian agents, prosecutors said. Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a wide range of topics, including nuclear weapons, US arms control positions, Iran, White House rumors, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, Congress and the political parties, prosecutors said. The court papers allege some of the ring's members lived as husband and wife; used invisible ink, coded radio transmissions and encrypted data; and employed Hollywood methods like swapping bags in passing at a train station. In Washington, Peter Earnest, Executive Director of the International Spy Museum and a former CIA Agent says the case was unusual in that the suspects were using espionage techniques but may not have been gathering very valuable intelligence. "It seems like an awful lot of effort and money to not get very much," Earnest said. He went on to say that the timing of the arrests was interesting following Medvedev's visit to Washington, adding that it could be designed to send a message to Russia. Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent living in New York, said he was "intrigued" to see how the United States would use this case in its bilateral relations with Russia. Russian broadcaster NTV television on Tuesday identified two of the defendants as Russian, claiming Mikhail Semenko had moved to the US in 2008 and Anna Chapman, said to have an English husband, moved to the US in February of this year. Photos of Chapman, taken from the social networking site Facebook, showed her to be a young woman believed to be in her late 20's. Semenko and Chapman were listed in a separate complaint and said to have used their real names. In spring 2009, court documents say, conspirators Richard and Cynthia Murphy, who lived in New Jersey, were asked for information about Obama's impending trip to Russia that summer, the US negotiating position on the START arms reduction treaty, Afghanistan and the approach Washington would take in dealing with Iran's suspect nuclear programme. They also were asked to send background on US officials travelling with Obama or involved in foreign policy, the documents say. The Murphys lived as husband and wife in suburban New Jersey, first Hoboken, then Montclair, with Richard Murphy carrying a fake birth certificate saying he was born in Philadelphia, authorities said. Aside from the Murphys, three other defendants also appeared in federal court in Manhattan - Pelaez and Lazaro, who were arrested at their Yonkers, New York, residence, and Chapman, arrested in Manhattan on Sunday. Pelaez was a reporter and editor for a prominent Spanish-language newspaper videotaped by the FBI contacting a Russian official in 2000 in Latin America, prosecutors said. The Murphys, Lazaro, Pelaez and Chapman were held without bail but didn't enter a plea. Another hearing was set for Thursday. Two other defendants, Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills, were arrested at their Arlington, Virginia, residence. Also arrested at an Arlington residence was Semenko. Zottoli, Mills and Semenko appeared before US Magistrate Theresa Buchanan on Monday in Alexandria, Virginia. The hearing was closed because the case had not yet been unsealed in New York. The three did not have attorneys at the hearing, a US attorney spokesman said. Two defendants, Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley, were arrested at their Cambridge, Massachussets, residence on Sunday and appeared briefly in Boston federal court Monday. A detention hearing was set for Thursday. 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