A few days ago, Queens resident and Emory Law student Ilan Grapel was released from Egypt, after Egyptian authorities claimed he was actually an Israeli spy and arrested him in June. While his friends and family have denied the spying allegations, Israel agreed to release 25 Egyptian prisoners in exchange for the 27-year-old. Today, Grapel landed back home in New York and had one thing on his mind: "What I have not had are chocolate chip pancakes from IHOP." more ›

Ilan Grapel, the 27-year-old law student from Hollis Hills detained in Egypt since June and accused of spying for Israel, has been released in exchange for 25 Egyptians held in Israeli jails. more ›

A 27-year-old student from Hollis Hills was arrested in Egypt over the weekend and accused of being an Israeli spy who "tried to sabotage the Egyptian revolution," according to reports. Ilan Grapel is currently detained in Egypt, though his parents and friends insist that he's no spy. more ›

You know what ex-boyfriends are good for? Selling naked photos of you to Playboy after you're unmasked as a Russian spy and deported from the United States. Anna Chapman became infamous as the "sexy," if not very good, spy—her cover: NYC party girl— attempting to gain access to American secrets, thanks to some fetching Facebook pictures and is now basically a national hero in Russia (she is heading up the youth wing of Vladimir Putin's party). Now, Playboy is publishing nude photographs of the 28-year-old in its January issue. more ›

It seems the road to fame and fortune—or at least infamy and lingerie photo shoots—still exists even if you've been deported from the United States as a bumbling spy. Anna Chapman, the former NYC party girl with extensive Facebook pictures who was accused of being a Russian spy, was sent back to Mother Russia, where she's been made an advisor to a bank and feted by President Dmitry Medvedev with the Kremlin's highest honor. And now she's in the new issue of the Russian Maxim! more ›

Who doesn't miss Anna Chapman, the redheaded, nipple clamp-loving Russian spy? Since she was sent back to Moscow in July, she's kept out of the limelight and been relatively quiet, except for the occasional Facebook update. Those updates couldn't possibly get her in trouble, and bring her back into our lives, could they?? more ›

In the latest Facebook musing from alleged spy Anna Chapman, she denies a Page Six story that claims she's trying to sell her story for $250,000 and wants the money sent to a Swiss bank account. Chapman writes, "This is an absolute lie." more ›

Ah, to be beautiful, mysterious, and now, thoroughly political: now that Russian "spy babe" Anna Chapman's story is worthy of a book deal, we all know from the Obama line of political thinking that she is ready to run for office - in this case, parliament. The head of the chapter of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia in Chapman's native Volgograd is pushing for her to run for parliament in 2012 and "will do everything to promote her candidacy for a Duma seat in the next parliament elections." Everything? What about making the public un-see the embarassing nude pics? Or calling on her international Insane Facebook Posse to bring her to victory? The rumored invite from Angelina Jolie to attend the Moscow premiere of Salt? more ›

The Post noticed how accused Russian spy Anna Chapman—the NYC party girl whose fetching and topless photos have made her a little more infamous than her peers—is back on Facebook. Chapman's status was updated, on July 9, to read, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... (Charles Dickens)" Aww, kind of sucks to know that calling your dad after a suspicious interaction with an undercover FBI agent helped accelerate one's arrest and shipment back to Russia. But she could be getting literary for a reason—Chapman wants to sell her story! more ›

Aha: The Washington Post suggests that the arrest of ten alleged Russian spies was prompted by a phone call that A NYC party girl and social networking enthusiast made to her father, because the FBI informant posing as a Russian contact was a bit suspicious: "An anxious June 26 phone call from Russian spy Anna Chapman to her father, a KGB veteran working in Moscow's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the Obama administration to hasten the arrests the next day of Chapman and nine other 'illegals' in the United States, according to U.S. law enforcement and intelligence sources." more ›

The son of the an alleged spy told reporters that his mother and stepfather were innocent, in spite of their guilty pleas. Waldo Mariscal, whose mother Vicky Peleaz and stepfather Juan Lazaro left the country yesterday for Russia, said of Peleaz, "The only Russian thing she likes is vodka with passion fruit." And of Lazaro, who said in court that his name was actually Mikhail Vasenkov, Mariscal insisted, "I still believe Juan Lazaro is from Uruguay." more ›

The 10 people accused by the Justice Department of being spies for the Russian government were swapped for supposed American spies detained in Russia at an airport in Vienna, Austria. The NY Times reports, "Planes carrying 10 convicted Russian sleeper agents and 4 men accused by Moscow of spying for the West swooped into the Austrian capital, once a hub of clandestine East-West maneuvering, and the men and women were transferred, the Justice Department said. The planes soon took off again in a coda fitting of an espionage novel." more ›

According to court papers, a couple living in Arlington, Virginia (you know, CLOSE TO WASHINGTON D.C.) admitted to being spies for Russia. Federal prosecutors says that Michael Zottoli said he was Russian national named Mikhail Kutzik while Patricia Mills confessed she's Russian citizen Natalia Pereverzeva. CNN reports, "Prosecutors said that the couple waived their rights to remain silent and made the admissions soon after being arrested at their Arlington, Virginia residence over the weekend." more ›

The British ex-husband of a NYC party girl who is accused of being a spy told the Daily Telegraph that he was interviewed by the British intelligence service MI5. Alex Chapman, a psychologist-in-training, said of ex-wife Anna, "When I saw that she had been arrested on suspicion of spying it didn’t come as much of a surprise to be honest. Towards the end of our marriage she became very secretive, going for meetings on her own with 'Russian friends’, and I guess it might have been because she was in contact with the Russian government." more ›

Yesterday, federal prosecutors claimed that Juan Lazaro, a former professor at Baruch College, admitted to being a spy. Lazaro is one of eleven people recently arrested by U.S. authorities, who say they were working for Russia's intelligence agency, the Foreign Intelligence Service. And, while allegedly admitting to being a spy, Lazaro told prosecutors that while he "loved his son, he would not violate his loyalty to the ‘Service’ even for his son." more ›

The cover of today's Post feature a huge photograph of alleged Russian spy, Anna Chapman, and the headline "SPYVY LEAGUE." But the story is actually about another suspected mole, Cynthia Murphy, and how she allegedly used her cred as a recent MBA graduate from Columbia Business School to recruit more spies for Mother Russia! But Murphy only gets a little inset photo, because there are no photos of Murphy looking over her shoulder fetchingly while wearing some sort of baby blue lingerie-type top. more ›

Who doesn't love a story about alleged Russian spies living amongst us in the city and the suburbs? And when one of those "spies" seems to be a party girl with a "Victoria's Secret body." The Post takes a real shine to Anna Chapman, who wrote on her Facebook page, "America is a free country. Over here, it is easy to meet successful people. In Moscow, it is practically impossible because you have to be as successful as they are... here you can meet successful people on the street and go have dinner with them." more ›

Yesterday, the Justice Department announced it arrested 10 people for "allegedly carrying out long-term, 'deep-cover' assignments in the United States on behalf of the Russian Federation." And in case you were wondering, "Federal law prohibits individuals from acting as agents of foreign governments within the United States without prior notification to the U.S. Attorney General." However, Russia's Foreign Ministry is blasting the arrests, saying, "We do not understand what prompted the U.S. Justice Department to make a public statement in the spirit of Cold War espionage. Such incidents have occurred in the past, when our relations were on the rise. In any case it is regrettable that all these things are happening on the background of the 'reset' in Russian-U.S. relations announced by the U.S. administration." more ›

A high-ranking cop has been pushed from the force after using a police vehicle (hopefully not this one) to spy on his detective wife. Julio Ordonez joined up in 1986 and rose to the No. 2 position in the NYPD’s Manhattan Housing Bureau. But a couple years ago, the law enforcement officer—who was going through a divorce—was disciplined, first for not reporting a fight with his wife Tammie, and again for “improperly using” a police vehicle to tail her. His misdeeds didn’t go unpunished. more ›

Morton Sobell, who in the '50s was convicted along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on espionage charges, has finally admitted he was a Soviet spy. However the NY Times reports that the now 91-year-old, who spent 19 years behind bars and now lives in the Bronx, said "the sketches and other information on the bomb that were passed along to Julius Rosenberg were of little value to the Soviets," in fact, he called it "junk." When the paper asked him if he was a spy, he declared, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, call it that. I never thought of it as that in those terms.” He also noted that "Ethel Rosenberg was aware of her husband’s espionage, but did not actively participate." more ›