UK Citizenship Revoked for Russian Spy

It now appears the UK government has chosen to revoke a British passport for Russian spy Anna Chapman. Sources say that Chapman, age 28, is married to a British man and has lived in London for several years. She was expelled from the United States in the biggest spy swap since back during the United States and Russian Cold War.

Chapman was flown back to Moscow just last week despite the fact that her American lawyer said that she would like to return to Britain. Other sources say that Chapman had already been handed a letter that revoked her citizenship and her passport making it impossible for her to be sent back to the UK.

Officials said that Home Secretary Theresa May was urgently considering the case just last week. She has the power to deprive dual nationals of citizenship. Chapman was just one of ten Russian spies that were exchanged for four Western agents released by Moscow in a spy swap.

These spies were expelled from the United States after pleading guilty in a Manhattan court to conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of a foreign country. Some details have started to emerge, after the spies were arrested last week, on how they were able to apparently lead normal lives in America. Several of the spies were married with children and had well kept suburban homes, but the whole time they were acting as undercover agents.

The members of this spy ring were said to have sent information from the United States back to Moscow in a plot reminiscent of old spy films. In fact, the spies were said to use such things as invisible ink, code words and even false passports. It sounds like something right out of a James Bond movie.