CEO 'spy' with S'pore link

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Jul 1, 2010
CEO 'spy' with S'pore link

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HE RAN a management company which claimed to have offices in Paris, Jakarta and Singapore. He was classmates with Mexican president Felipe Calderon. Donald Heathfield, CEO and inventor of Future Map, is also accused of being a Russian spy, and using the false identity of a dead Canadian infant. His company, Future Map, said its goal was to develop 'strategic proactivity'.

'Our mission is to help governments, enterprises and international organisations better prepare for the future and make better strategic decisions,' the company said on its website. 'We strive to establish Future Map as a global repository of information about anticipated events and a platform for collaboration in this emerging domain'. A man at Future Map's Singapore headquarters, which the website lists at Heritage Place along Tan Quee Lan Street, said he was 'stunned' by the news, Bloomberg News reported.

The man, who declined to give his name, said he was 'extremely surprised' and didn't 'know what to make of it'. Heathfield studied for his masters on public administration in 2000 at Harvard University, which he used to cultivate ties, The New York Times reported. Mark Podlasly, a classmate of Heathfield's, told NYT that the accused spy 'kept in touch with almost all of our international classmates'. 'In Singapore, in Jakarta - he knew what everyone was doing. If you wanted to know where anybody was at, Don would know,' Mr Podlasly was quoted as saying.

Prosecutors said Heathfield met a high-ranking US government official in 2004 'with regard to nuclear weapons research'. Heathfield, one of 10 suspected Russian spies held in the US, had ties to organisations involved in forecasting emerging technologies. A Canadian man, David Heathfield, said the accused spy had assumed the identity of his brother, who died in Montreal in 1963 at six weeks of age. The AP reported that David Heathfield said he did not know how his brother's name turned up in the US court files, but believed the Russians singled out his brother's death notice in a Montreal newspaper.

 

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Donald Heathfield's (inset) Future Map firm's website lists an office at Tan Quee Lan Street in the Bugis area.
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Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US attorney general. -- PHOTO: AP

Local media reported the downtown Barnes and Noble store was where suspected Russian spy Anna Chapman communicated with Russian officials. Eleven suspects, some of whom lived quiet lives in American suburbia for years, were accused of gathering information ranging from data on high-penetration nuclear warhead research programs to background on CIA job applicants. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

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In this image taken from a Facebook page shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing in
New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a
foreign government without notifying the US attorney general. -- PHOTO: AP

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In this image taken from a Facebook page shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the US attorney general. -- PHOTO: AP

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing in New York federal court. -- PHOTO: AP

These undated image taken from the Russian social networking website 'Odnoklassniki', or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing in New York federal court. -- PHOTO: AP


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Waldomar Mariscal, son of Vicky Pelaez, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly serving as spies for Russia, walks back into the house where his mother was arrested in Yonkers, New York. The arrests come days after a warm Washington summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, thrust a Cold War-style spy scandal into the midst of the US leader's 'reset' of long-strained ties with the Kremlin. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Waldomar Mariscal, son of Vicky Pelaez, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly serving as spies for Russia, talks to reporters as he gets in his car outside the house where his mother was arrested in Yonkers, New York. The arrests come days after a warm Washington summit between President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, thrust a Cold War-style spy scandal into the midst of the US leader's

The door at right leads to 35B Trowbridge Road in Cambridge, Mass., a residence owned by Donald Heathfield and Tracey Foley, who were arrested Sunday by the FBI on allegations of being Russian spies. -- PHOTO: AP


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The Montclair, NJ house where 'Richard Murphy' and 'Cynthia Murphy' were arrested by the FBI. The couple is among the 10 people the FBI arrested for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating US government policymaking circles.
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Exterior of the River House Apartments in Arlington Va.. Ten people have been arrested for allegedly serving as secret agents of the Russian government with the goal of penetrating US government policymaking circles. -- PHOTO: AP

Neighbours are interviewed on Marquette Road in Montclair, NJ. Their neighbors, 'Richard Murphy' and 'Cynthia Murphy' were arrested by the FBI at their house on Sunday. The Murphy's along with eight others are alleged to be secret agents spying for Russia. -- PHOTO: AP


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From Russia with love


Jul 2, 2010
From Russia with love

FATHER A HIGH-RANKING KGB AGENT

Alex Chapman said it did not come as a shock that his ex-wife had been accused of being a Russian agent, given what she had told him about her father, Vasily Kushchenko. 'Anna told me her father had been high up in the ranks of the KGB. She said he had been an agent in 'old Russia',' he told the Telegraph.

'Her father controlled everything in her life, and I felt she would have done anything for her dad. 'When I saw that she had been arrested on suspicion of spying it didn't come as much of a surprise to be honest.' He said when their marriage broke down in 2005 he feared she was on the road to becoming a spy.

'I don't think she was working as a spy here but I suspect she had been conditioned towards that end.' He added she fell in with a new group and became 'arrogant and obnoxious, always going on about powerful people she was meeting.' -- AFP

New York newspapers are on display featuring personal photos of suspected spies Anna Chapman (left) and Richard and Cynthia Murphy. -- PHOTO: AFP

<!-- story content : start --> LONDON - THE British ex-husband of Anna Chapman, the flame-haired businesswoman suspected of being part of a Russian spy ring, is a trainee psychiatrist who was married to her for four years, a paper reported on Friday. Alex Chapman, 30, told the Daily Telegraph that he met his wife-to-be, then called Anna Kushchenko, at a party in London in 2001. Just 21 and 19 at the time, the pair quickly fell in love and married five months later in Moscow.

But in just a few years, the ex-husband told how Anna Chapman changed from being a carefree person who was not materialistic into an 'arrogant and obnoxious' woman who moved in influential circles. By 2006 they had divorced, but have remained in touch since. The suspected Russian agent worked in London for several years after her marriage, but Alex Chapman said he did not believe she was working as a spy at this point.

He suspects she was being 'conditioned' to take just such a path, however. Anna Chapman is among 11 suspected 'deep-cover' suspects charged with trying to infiltrate US policymaking circles and report back to Moscow in a Cold War-style spy case that threatens to strain thawing ties between the countries. She was remanded into custody without bail at a New York court on Monday.

Enormous media attention has focused on the 28-year-old since the suspected Kremlin spies were snared several days ago, with media portraying her as a green-eyed femme fatale. Her ex-husband said he was visited by agents of domestic intelligence service MI5 at his home in Bournemouth, southern England, on Wednesday and was questioned about his former wife. The Foreign Office has said it was looking into Anna Chapman's links to Britain. -- AFP

 

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Spy suspect confesses


Jul 2, 2010
Spy suspect confesses

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In this courtroom sketch, judge Ronald Ellis (not seen) presides at the bail hearing of accused spies for Russia (left to right) Vicky Pelaez, Richard Murphy, Cynthia Murphy and Juan Lazaro. -- PHOTO: AP

<!-- story content : start --> NEW YORK - ONE of the suspects in the Russia spy scandal confessed after his arrest to working for Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, US prosecutors said Thursday. The confession was detailed in a letter sent by prosecutors to encourage judge Ronald Ellis to deny bail to the suspect, who went by the name of Juan Lazaro.

In the letter, prosecutors outline how Lazaro admitted in a 'lengthy post-arrest statement' to working for the 'Service' - an abbreviation used in official court documents for Russia's SVR foreign intelligence service, a successor of the Cold War-era KGB. Lazaro also stated that his co-accused, Peruvian journalist Vicky Pelaez, had delivered correspondence on his behalf to the SVR, and that the house they shared in Yonkers, outside New York, was paid for by their Russian spymasters.

'After being given his Miranda warnings (and waiving them), Lazaro admitted, among other things:

* That he was not born in Uruguay
* 'Juan Lazaro' was not his true name
* Pelaez had travelled to the South American country in 2000
* Pelaez had delivered letters to the 'Service' on his behalf; that the Yonkers House had been paid for by the 'Service';
* Although he (Lazaro) loved his son, he would not violate his loyalty to the 'Service' even for his son.

'Lazaro refused to provide his true name,' the letter said. -- AFP

 

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Re: Spy suspect confesses

Nice post! Thanks for the pics