King of the swimmers: How orangutan Suryia loves a summer dip with his trainer

Smiles all round: Moksha and Suryia smile for the underwater camera, and Suryia even manages a wave

Woohoo! With his hair streaming back as Moksha swims through the water, Suryia certainly looks like he's having a whale of a time in the safari park pool

Last one in's a chimp: Suryia, a seven-year-old urangutan, has taken a shine to diving into a pool with bikini-clad trainer Moksha Bybee at at Myrtle Beach Safari in South Carolina

When people talk about getting an all-over tan for summer, they're not usually talking about getting an all-over orangutan.

But 30-year-old Moksha Bybee has the most unusual of swimming partners - a seven-year-old urangutan who clings to her as she dives beneath the surface.


Jacuzzi anyone? Staff at the Myrtle Beach Safari believe that Suryia might be the world's first aquatic orangutan. If nothing else, he's been working on his poolside manner

Swimming buddies: Moksha says Suryia only took three weeks to learn how to swim, and can now paddle up to 20ft unaided - having come up with a unique 'Borneo Crawl'

Swimming buddies: Moksha says Suryia only took three weeks to learn how to swim, and can now paddle up to 20ft unaided - having come up with a unique 'Borneo Crawl'

The jungle-dwelling creatures are not known for their love of the water, but Suryia appears to have permanently swapped tree trunks for swimming trunks.
And Mrs Bybee says it's virtually impossible to keep Suryia from the pool on a nice day.

The two make an unusual sight as they lark about at the Myrtle Beach Safari park in South Carolina.

Mrs Bybee said that Suryia spent only three weeks learning how to swim and now can't get enough of his new skill.

Staff introduced Suryia to their 67ft pool after they noticed he had an unusual love for splashing around in the bath.
She said: 'Suryia's learning curve has been incredible. His favourite thing is to dive into the water on my back. 'When I surface he pulls at me almost to say, "Again, again".'

And he's not just a dab hand at diving - Suryia is able to swim up to 20 feet unaided using his rudimentary 'Borneo crawl'.

Staff at the park believe that the plucky seven-year-old is the world's first aquatic orangutan.

'What a beautiful revenge for Wembley 66': Germany celebrates on a scale 'not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall'

German football fans in Berlin make their glee known during the England match

Germany fans took to the streets to celebrate their historic win in Hamburg

Berlin's Fan Mile became a whirl of German flags

'Thanks lads - that was your revenge for Wembley!'

The headline on the Bild newspaper website last night summed up the arrogance, pride and joy of a nation whose young team steamrollered England out of the World Cup.

'What a beautiful revenge for Wembley,' the paper added, in reference to the 1966 England World Cup goal which most people in the Fatherland refuse to admit was a goal at all.
Amid much other ranting it went on to report, in English, the three cruellest words for the Three Lions; 'Bye, bye England!'


The open spaces of the northern German city of Hamburg became a heaving mass of supporters

Businesses are expecting high rates of absenteeism today as the celebrations continued through much of the night and into the early hours of the morning

Germany captain Philipp Lahm is seen on giant display before the start of the screening of the match at the 'Fan Mile' public viewing arena in Berlin

A couple boasting German flags on their faces share a celebratory kiss in Düsseldorf

Bild's website today trumped - in English 'Jungs, we love you!', while touching on the Lampard goal controversy by adding: '44 years after Wembley, Thank you, Football God!'

he Hamburg Morgen Post celebrated with a simple 'Yes!' on its front page today, while the Rheinische Post ran a picture of Frank Lampard's disallowed goal headlined 'Revenge for Wembley'

Meanwhile the Deggendorfer Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel both looked ahead to Argentina

Today the newspaper declared; ‘Jungs (lads) - We Love You!’

It went on; ‘It was true England were robbed of a goal by the referee but we were so strong we would have gone on to win anyway.
‘This is a game that will never be forgotten.’

'Germany have played themselves with style into the next round,' said the staid Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. And on the same Wembley-revenge theme added; 'The referee missed the 'Wembley goal' but our double-pack in the second half sent them home in style,'

'Such a great result against England has never been achieved by Germany before,' said Der Spiegel magazine.
Capello's grim expression only got grimmer as the match progressed. The morale of the English was broken on the pitch. Germany deserved its win.'

It also showed a photo of Rolling Stone Mick Jagger in the stadium with the words, also in English, used around the world to sum up England’s gloom: 'We can’t get no satisfaction.'

'Quits for Wembley,' said the BZ tabloid in Berlin. 'That goal in 1966 wasn’t a real one but England went on to win. Not this time.

'There will now be a debate about video playbacks on the field. But that is for another day. For now, we are on the way to victory in the World Cup!'
And so on. Across Germany there was an outpouring of emotion not seen since - said some commentators - the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Over half a million people watched the game at the Fan Mile site in Berlin alone and later headed into the city to quench their thirsts and strut their stuff.

'I can’t believe we have handed down such a thrashing to a team that came into the tournament as one of the favourites,' said Jan-Philip Litz, 23, a child care worker from Bielefeld who travelled to the capital for the match.

'I really thought it would be all over for us. But England were tired and lame. Where was Rooney? What is the hype around him anyway?
'I wasn’t here when the Berlin Wall came down but some old guys were and they said it was a great night - but this is better. After all, we hate the English footballers more than we hated the Communists, they said.'

German confidence in the team is now sky high and most believe they have the enthusiasm and skill to take down Argentina when they clash at the weekend.

Absenteeism was expected to be high at factories and offices across the country today as the parties celebrating victory lasted late into the night.

Teams of municipal workers toiled into the early hours clearing up the Fan Miles in places like Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich where hundreds of thousands gathered to watch the action on
Brewers said beer purchases jumped by seven percent over the past few days, aided by a hot spell as well as by the goal-getting skills of the national 11.

Traffic snarl-ups were reported in some towns as people piled into their cars following victory to put on the kind of motorised fiesta usually seen in South American countries after a football success.

Cars with horns blaring drove down the main Kurfuerstendamm in Berlin afterwards where drivers chanted; 'England’s going home, they’re going home, they’re going home!'

In Hamburg posters of the England team were burned on a fire called ‘Die drei Loewen Grillfest’ - the three lions barbecue.

At Irish - and the odd English - bars across Germany, the mood was less celebratory.

Paul Shdelburn, 22, an IT specialist in Munich from Deal, Kent, said; 'They never fail to let you down. What a bunch of carthorses. That goal that was disallowed that could have been so vital in the end didn't mean s**t.'

David Miller, 44, from, Brentford, Middlesex, working as an engineer in Berlin, saw the game in Cafe Floh in Grunewald, Berlin.

He said: 'The whole English team has to be nuked and reconstructed from the ground up. We scored three goals in this entire World Cup, for Christ's sake. I hope these expensive 'athletes' - and Rooney in particular - think long and hard about the con they are pulling on us.'

'Terrible, rubbish, humiliating,' said Wayne Phillips, 32, a carpenter in Berlin. 'Makes you feel ashamed. Putting up with my workmates jibes over the next week will be a task.'

On the Fan Mile in Berlin, English supporters began putting up the Agincourt salute - two fingers - after the first two German goals.

Uli Schachtler, a self-described German 'mega-fan' from Bremen said; 'You English run on dreams and we run on stamina and training. Get wiz ze programme!'

Terror as passenger jet's cockpit shatters 36,000ft above the Atlantic... and accident was caused by ONE loose screw

Danger: The flight crew in this American Airlines 757 were forced to make an emergency landing en route from Puerto Rico to Philadelpia

At fault: One of the faulty heater terminals inside the Boeing aircraft

A single loose screw in a cockpit window heater caused this potentially fatal accident to happen on an American Airways Boeing 757 - as it flew 36,000ft above the Atlantic Ocean.

The flight crew were showered in glass after the heater caused an inside ply on the windscreen shattered into thousands of tiny cracks.



An American Airlines jet takes off at Miami International Airpor

As the cockpit filled with smoke, the 2008 flight from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia was diverted to Palm Beach, Florida, as terrified passengers were instructed on procedures for a rough ground or ocean landing.
Amazingly, U.S. flight safety officials have known about the fault for years but have npt required airlines to fix it.

'It was absolutely horrifying. There's no other way to describe it,' said Rebekah Conrad, 23, who was among two dozen students who held hands, sang hymns and prayed through the ordeal.

Pilots have complained about heaters that burned, smoldered or sent electric currents dancing across cockpit windows since at least 2002.

Safety investigators have traced the problem to a minor cause: a loose screw.

None of the reported incidents was deadly, but they were scary. Sometimes, flames would reappear after flight crews had blasted them with fire extinguishers.

Pilots reported having to remove their oxygen masks in smoky cockpits in order to reach circuit breakers or grab fire extinguishers.

The National Transportation Safety Board has prodded the Federal Aviation Administration to make airlines fix the problem, concerned that a major accident could happen if nothing is done. The FAA has yet to mandate the repairs, although it has promised the NTSB since 2004 that it would.
There is no shortage of information. In fact, there's no shortage of incidents,' NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said in an interview. 'What's the missing is the will to do something about it.'

The FAA did propose a safety fix in March 2008, two months after the American Airlines 757 experienced problems.

More than two years later, the FAA's safety fix still is not final.

The regulator promised to expedite it after a cockpit fire last month forced a United Airlines 757 to make an emergency landing at Washington Dulles International Airport.

In that incident, United pilots emptied one fire extinguisher on the flames, and sent a flight attendant for a second extinguisher after the fire reignited.
The FAA hopes to issue a final order next month, said FAA spokesman Les Dorr. He said the process has been slowed by the FAA's obligation to respond to airlines who objected to the proposed remedy.

The FAA and Boeing have received new information about the extent of the problem, Dorr added.

Boeing has acknowledged at least 29 incidents globally involving cockpit window heaters in its 747, 757, 767 and 777 models since 2002.

Their tally includes only those incidents where there was evidence of flame or smoke, not emergency landings due to electrical arcing or cracked windows.

NASA's Aviation Safety Reporting System, a database to which pilots, flight attendants, airline mechanics and others voluntarily report safety concerns, contained 24 cockpit window heater incidents in those Boeing models over the same time period.

Twelve were fires, but the other 12 involved arcing - hot, lightning-like streams of electricity - along windows, as well as emergency landings and cracked or shattered windows, which were not included in Boeing's count.

There appears to be a similar problem with the Boeing 737, the most widely used airliner in the United States.

The NASA database contains 16 reports of fire, smoke, electrical arcing or cockpit window cracking in 737s since 2002.

There also was one December 2007 report in the Nasa database of arcing and a shattered window in a Boeing 727 that ultimately made an emergency landing.

Between 2004 and 2007, Nasa sent four safety alerts to the FAA and the NTSB regarding cockpit fires, smoke or arcing in the 757. It sent a similar safety alert about the 737 in July 2003.

For their part, major carriers American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines and US Airways are either replacing the old windows or stepping up inspections.

Boeing spokesman Peter Conte acknowledged electrical arcing in cockpit window heaters has led to cracked windows in the 737.

He said the problem was not considered dangerous because the arcing happens between window layers, unlike the incidents in other Boeing models, and doesn't cause smoke or flames.

The 737's heaters require less power to warm the plane's smaller windows, he noted.

However, a May 2003 report filed with NASA describes a window fire in a 737 with 'blowtorch' flames, smoke and sparking.

The plane, which was on a test flight, made an emergency landing. Two other reports mention smoke as well as arcing and window cracking.

Two years ago, the FAA said its proposed remedy would affect 1,212 planes. That order does not include 737s.

The NTSB said it learned of the window heater problems after two 757 cockpit fires in January 2004. Safety investigators traced the fires to arcing caused by a loose screw that chafed power wires connected to heating wires in the windows, which were manufactured by PPG Aerospace.

The FAA's 2008 proposal would require airlines to check for the loose screw and replace damaged windows - a task that some airlines say requires extensive window disassembly because the screws are difficult for mechanics to reach.

Google cornered after Beijing threatens to withdraw licence within 24 hours over censorship row

Google will no longer divert Chinese web users to its Hong Kong site

Google will no longer automatically redirect Chinese web users to its Hong Kong site in an effort to placate Beijing censors.



The company began diverting users in March after saying it would no longer cooperate with the communist government’s internet censorship.

Google said regulators have told the search giant its internet licence, which expires tomorrow, would not be renewed if that continued.

'They made it clear to us that they did not think the redirect was acceptable,' said Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell. She declined to say what reasons the government gave for its objections.

On a company blog, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said that Chinese authorities told the company: 'if we continue redirecting users our internet content provider licence will not be renewed'.

Google still operates a music download service and several other features on Google.cn that are not affected by filtering regulations and Ms Powell said it wants those services to continue.

Instead of automatically being switched to Google.hk, visitors to Google.cn now see a tab that says in Chinese: 'We have moved to google.com.hk.'

Users can click on that tab to move to the site in Hong Kong, which is a Chinese territory but has Western-style civil liberties and no internet filtering.

A foreign ministry spokesman, Qin Gang, said he had not seen Google's announcement and could not comment on it.

However, he added: 'I would like to stress that the Chinese government encourages foreign enterprises to operate in China according to law.'

Google's announcement in January that it no longer wished to comply with Chinese internet filtering was an embarrassment for communist leaders, who want foreign companies to help develop China's technology industries.

Google was the last major foreign internet company to operate its own China-based service and people in the industry are watching to see whether communist authorities allow it to continue operating other services.

Google, based in Mountain View, California, also hopes to keep a research centre in China, an advertising sales team that generates most of its revenue in the country and a fledgling mobile phone business.

Turks shot multiple times on Gaza ship: forensics

Nine people were killed on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31

ANKARA — All but two of the nine Turks killed in an Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship were shot more than once, and five died from bullet wounds to the head, according to forensic reports.

The reports were made available to AFP Tuesday by lawyers for the victims' families, who have petitioned Turkish prosecutors to investigate the May 31 bloodshed on the Turkish Mavi Marmara ferry.



The forensic examinations were carried out in Turkey by the government-run Forensic Institute.

"The findings make it clear the Israeli forces shot to kill the activists and not to overpower them," one of the lawyers, Yasin Divrak, told AFP.

The nine volunteers were shot a total of 31 times, according to the documents.

The youngest victim, 19-year-old Furkan Dogan, a dual Turkish-US national, was shot five times, including twice in the head, his autopsy report said.

A bullet that pierced his face was fired from close range, it said, adding he was hit also in the back of the head.

The forensic experts failed to detect other point-blank shots on the remaining victims.

All nine bodies had been washed before being brought to Turkey and their clothes were either blood-soaked or otherwise unfit for analysis, making it impossible to reach a conclusion on the ranges of most shots, according to the documents.

Another victim, Ali Heyder Bengi, 39, was shot six times, including once in the abdomen, while Fahri Yildiz, 43, was hit by five bullets, among them a fatal one in the chest, according to the documents.

Journalist Cevdet Kiliclar, 38, the web editor of the Islamist charity IHH that led the ill-fated campaign, was killed by a single bullet that hit him between the eyebrows, the report said.

Divrak drew attention to the autopsy of 61-year-old Ibrahim Bilgen, which included the discovery of a tiny bag containing pellets, still intact in his brain, which the report said was was fired from a hunting rifle.

"It is not a type of weapon that we have ever heard of," he said.

Three bullet wounds were also found in Bilgen's chest, back and hip.

Israel says its commandos used force after they were attacked with sticks and stabbed as soon as they landed on the Mavi Marmara, which was sailing in international waters. But the activists insist the troops opened fire as soon as they landed.

Friends and relatives have described several of the dead Turks as devout Muslims who were passionate about the Palestinian cause and wanted to be "martyrs."

The bloody ending to the aid mission, which had aimed to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, plunged ties between Turkey and Israel, once close allies, into deep crisis.

Turkey has dismissed a commission set up by Israel to investigate the raid, insisting for a UN-led international probe.

McDonald's heir attacked and robbed of £250,000 in his home

Robbery: McDonald's heir Geoffrey McDonald was bashed and robbed in his home in the south of France

The heir to the the McDonald's fast food empire has been violently attacked and robbed of £250,000 at his villa in the south of France.

Geoffrey McDonald, 60, was left 'severely shocked' after the burglary at his sprawling eight-bedroom home in picturesque Eygalieres, near Avignon.



Hollywood stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie recently bought a £10million chateau in the same village - one of the most sought-after locations in Provence.

The robbers, said to have been armed with baseball bats, broke into Mr McDonald's home on the night of June 18, police have revealed.

They lay in wait for the couple, and attacked Mr McDonald and his wife when they returned home after a night out.

They then fled with more than 300,000 euros, jewellery and passports.

The couple's lawyer Gilles-Jean Portejoie said: 'Mr McDonald was violently beaten in the assault which left him and his wife severely shocked.'


Local judicial officials said it was the latest in a string of robberies targeting wealthy residents in the region.

Christian Pasta, public prosecutor in the nearby town of Tarascon, said: 'There have been a string of at least ten robberies in the area this year.

'We suspect there is an organised gang or robbers targeting wealthy homeowners and have an ongoing investigation to bring them to justice.'

Mr McDonald and his wife had given statements to the police and returned to their home in the US, he added.

OLD HABITS DIE HARD: HOW AMERICA NEVER BELIEVED RUSSIA HAD STOPPED SPYING

Under Putin, spies activity increased.


Robert Hanssen,double agent to Russian,allow $500 million falls to Russia hands through Oil for Food Irag program under U.N

The astonishing plot and arrests could rival the FBI's famous capture of Soviet Col. Rudolf Abel in 1957 in New York.

Also a deep cover agent, Abel was ultimately swapped to the Soviet Union for downed U-2 spy pilot Francis Gary Powers in 1962.



That was during the Cold War - and since then relations have improved.

Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama shared a cordial visit just last week - even stopping off for a hamburger during an unannounced visit to a diner.

Yet neither side has dropped its guard completely.

According to Washington officials, Russia's covert foreign intelligence operations against America have reached Cold War levels under the watch of Mr Putin, below.
White House advisers believe that there is no other nation on Earth that is so determined to get intelligence on the U.S., with the possible exception of China.

Defence officials are particularly concerned by the SVR, the latest incarnation of the KGB's intelligence arm, which has a network of undercover agents in America.

Targets include research projects and military equipment in development .

The activities of the SVR are rarely put in the spotlight, but in 2007 a Russian man who posing as a Canadian citizen was caught and deported.

The alleged SVR agent had been living under the name Paul William Hampel and claimed to be a lifeguard and travel consultant, but was thought to be attempting to get information on the aerospace industry in Montreal.

He was held carrying a fake birth certificate, £3,000 in five currencies and several encrypted pre-paid mobile phone cards.
The two most prominent cases involving the SVR in the past decade may have been those of Robert Hanssen, right, the FBI counter-intelligence agent who was convicted of passing along secrets to the agency, and Sergei Tretyakov, deputy head of intelligence at Russia's U.N. mission in 1995-2000.

Tretyakov, who defected in 2000, claimed in a 2008 book that his agents helped the Russian government steal nearly $500 million from the U.N.'s oil-for-food program in Iraq before the fall of Saddam Hussein.

He said he oversaw an operation that helped Saddam's regime manipulate the price of Iraqi oil sold under the program and allowed Russia to skim profits.

One of the Cold War's most famous defectors says Russia may have as many as 50 deep-cover couples spying inside the United States.

Oleg Gordievsky, an ex-deputy head of the KGB in London who defected in 1985, said Mr Medvedev would be aware of the precise numbers of so-called illegal operatives in each target country.

The 71-year-old ex-double agent said Medvedev would know numbers but not necessarily their names. He also claimed the undercover operatives were often too timid to recruit high-ranking agents.

The List of Russian SuperSpies caught and charged by FBI -The femme fatale, the stay-at-home dad, the top newspaper columnist

Anna Chapman


Graves at Arlington National Cemetery, where America honours its war dead, near where Zottoli and Mills lived

Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near where Foley and Heathfield lived

Anna Chapman, 28:

Believed to be using her real name. A beautiful divorcee with a masters' in economics and an online real estate firm who attended high society New York parties, according to reports.

She lived in an apartment in a wealthy area of Manhattan.

She met regularly with Russian officials. FBI agents tried to use that to their advantage by setting up a sting with an agent posing as a Russian handler.


Suburban life: The Montclair, New Jersey house where'Richard Murphy' and 'Cynthia Murphy' were arrested by the FBI on Sunday

The Hala Sultan Tekke Mosque in Larnaca, Cyprus. Metsos was staying in a hotel in Larnaca

Chapman met with the handler on Saturday - but never followed through on the task given to her. She was arrested in Manhattan.

Mikhail Semenko

Believed to be his real name. Like Chapman, fooled into meeting FBI agents posing as Russian handlers. Unlike Chapman, he actually carried the 'mission' given to him by the FBI agents out.

He was described by friends as being a Mercedes driver in his late-20s who was often heard speaking in Russian to his girlfriend.

He was arrested in Arlington.

Christopher R Metsos, 55:

Arrested in Cyprus this morning attempting to board a flight to Budapest.

Bizarrely, he was then bailed pending an extradition hearing in 30 days. It is highly unusual for Cyprus courts to issue bail for foreign nationals pending extradition.

Not believed to be using his real name. FBI court documents said said Metsos was posing as a Canadian citizen - allowing him to travel freely to New York to meet at least one of the other defendants on numerous occasions.

Metsos has been accused of receiving and making payments to the other members of the group, including getting payments during a brush-pass with a Russian government official who was affiliated with the Russian mission to the United Nations in New York.

The U.S. embassy in Nicosia said it was not aware of the arrest.

Documents Cypriot authorities submitted to court said the Interpol red alert for Metsos was issued on June 26. It said he was thought to have laundered some $40,000.

'He has to appear at a police station once a day and has handed in his travel documents to police,' a police statement said.

Metsos had arrived in Cyprus on June 17 and had been staying alone at a hotel in Larnaca, on the east Mediterranean island's southern coast. His extradition hearing will start on July 29.

The New Jersey Conspirators': Richard and Cynthia Murphy

The pair - believed to have married as part of their cover - have lived in the U.S. since the mid-1990s.

Richard Murphy is posing as a U.S. citizen born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is believed to have travelled on a forged Irish passport.

His wife Cynthia is also posing as an American born as Cynthia Hopkins in New York City.

The couple lived in Hoboken, New Jersey. Since 2008 they have lived in a house in Montclair, New Jersey.

They are believed to have children. A neighbour, Louise Shallcross, 44, said she often saw Richard Murphy at the school bus stop.

'We were all very excited to have a stay-at-home dad move in,' she said.

Another neighbour told the New York Times: 'They couldn’t have been spies. Look what she did with the hydrangeas.'

The Boston Conspirators': Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley

Donald Heathfield, posing as a Canadian citizen, is married to Tracey Lee Ann Foley, posing as a naturalised U.S. citizen born in Canada.

Tracy Lee Ann Foley is believed to have used a British passport for trips back and forth from Moscow.

The pair, believed to be in their 40s and with two teenage sons, have lived in the U.S. since 1999. Court documents said that until this month they had lived long-term in a Boston townhouse. Now they live near Boston, in the town of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

'The Yonkers Conspirators': Juan Lazaro and Vicky Pelaez

Vicky Pelaez - believed to be her real name - is a United States citizen born in Peru. She is a reporter and editor.

She worked for several years for El Diario/La Prensa, one of the country's best-known Spanish-language newspapers.

She is best known for her opinion columns, which often criticize the U.S. government.

She has a son, Waldo Mariscal.

She is married to Juan Lazaro, posing as a citizen of Peru born in Uruguay.

The couple have each lived in the U.S. for over 20 years.

The Seattle Conspirators': Michael Zottoli and Patricia Mills

Michael Zottoli is posing as a U.S. citizen born in Yonkers, New York.

He is married to Patricia Mills, who was posing as a Canadian citizen.

The couple have lived together over the years in a number of locations, including an apartment in Seattle, Washington.

In October, 2009, they moved to Arlington, Virginia.

Zottoli has lived in the U.S. since 2001, and Mills since 2003.

In Arlington, where Zottoli and Mills lived in a ninth-floor apartment, next-door neighbor Celest Allred said her guess had been that 'they were Russian, because they had Russian accents'.

They were arrested at home.

Russia SuperSpies were Americalized to commit missions used new spy methods of personal Wi fi Network to pass encrypted messages.

'SHE COULDN'T HAVE BEEN A SPY - LOOK WHAT SHE DID WITH THE HYDRANGEAS'

They wanted to infiltrate the inner core of American society, so naturally they chose the place that would arose the least suspicion - the suburbs.

The 11 men and women accused of spying for Russia lived apparently ordinary, mundane and even boring lives, neighbours have revealed.



Rather than engage in overt espionage, they spent most of their time tending the garden and making sure their children got to football practice on time.

It all helped create a veneer of respectability that would enable them to become highly 'Americanised', and carry out their secret mission without attracting suspicion.

Their technique was summed up succinctly by one teenager who lived next to 'New Jersey conspirators' Richard and Cynthia Murphy: 'They couldn't have been spies. Look what she did with the hydrangeas.'

Others were stunned when FBI agents turned up on Sunday night and led them away from their Montclair home in handcuffs.

One called them 'suburbia personified,' saying that they had asked people for advice about the local schools.

In the Yonkers area of New York, neighbours were just as shocked when Juan Lazaro and Vicky Pelaez were carted off by police.

'It's so hard to believe - they looked like regular folks,' said neighbour Jonathan Kroll, 39, a school administrator.

The situation was the same in Cambridge, Massachusetts where forty-something couple 'Donald Howard Heathfield' and 'Tracey Lee Ann Foley' were arrested, to the surprise of those who knew them.

'All I knew about them was when I saw them pull in and out of their driveway,' said Vicky Steinitz, 71.

Another added: 'She was a friendly neighbour. She was gorgeous. She was nice. They were European but I didn’t know what kind.'

'You were sent to USA for long-term service trip. Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc - all these serve one goal: fulfil your main mission, ie to search and develop ties in policy-making circles in US and send intels (intelligence reports) to C (Moscow Center).'
- The accused spies 'mission statement', as outlined in a message to 'Richard and Cynthia Murphy' from Moscow Center, intercepted and decoded by the FBI


FROM INVISIBLE INK TO COVERT WI-FI COMMUNICATION: WHAT THE RUSSIAN 'SPIES' ARE ACCUSED OF

According to the complaint, filed by Maria Ricci, a special agent with the Counterintelligence arm of the FBI, the spies:

* used advanced steganography software to send encrypted messages to each other by hiding them on publicly available websites.
* used short wave radios and codes to send messages to each other
* used wi-fi in cafes and bookshops to covertly communicate with Russian agents parked in a van close by
* used and perfected the 'brush pass', a clandestine way of handing over items as one person passes another, which is known as a 'flash meeting'
* hoarded up to £50,000 in cash in their homes
* wrote messages in invisible ink that they sent to Russian agents in South America
* met an employee of the U.S. government with regards to nuclear weapons research and other high-ranking officials
* tried to get jobs in firms which gave them access to those who knew state secrets
* buried information in the ground which could later be picked up by other agents
* received money from an official associated with the Manhattan-based Permanent Mission to the United States
* used false documents to travel into and out of the United States and
* took the identities of dead Americans to help them carry out their mission.

The agents are also said to have been schooled in Morse Code and how to cover their tracks so they left no evidence.

Each of the ten was charged with conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

Nine of the defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum 20 years in prison.

Two criminal complaints outlining the charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York.

Russian agent posing as suburban mother used British passport to spy on U.S., claims FBI

'Highly trained agent': Chapman has also posted some less racy images of herself on her Facebook page.The flame-haired femme fatale: Anna Chapman, dressed in in brilliant red, at a party in New York in March. She is accused of being a Russian spy

The 'practised deceiver': Above left, Chapman in a photo from her Facebook page wearing her signature red dress. Above right, the accused spy in a racy pose also taken from her Facebook page

Accused: L-R, Anna Chapman, Vicky Pelaez, the defendant known as 'Richard Murphy', the defendant known as 'Cynthia Murphy', and the defendant known as 'Juan Lazaro' are seen in Manhattan federal court in New York last night

* Foreign Office investigating British passport claims
* Obama refuses to answer questions on arrests
* Putin says he hopes case will not damage U.S.-Russia relationship
* Man believed to be 11th spy nabbed today in Cyprus - then released on bail
* Accused allegedly used invisible ink and steganography
* Eight of the suspects were married couples, some with children
* Plot 'has been in place since the 1990s'
One of the women accused of being a Russian spy in the U.S. travelled on a British passport, according to the FBI.

Tracey Lee Ann Foley, who was posing as a naturalised U.S. citizen born in Canada, is believed to have been given forged British documents by her Russian handlers.

She used them to travel to and from Moscow with greater ease, the FBI has claimed.

The Foreign Office said today it was investigating the claim.

If true, itwill undo some of the work that Prime Minister David Cameron did during the recent G8 and G20 summits to improve relations with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.


So much for the friendly chats over burgers: Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama in a cordial photo op at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Virginia, last week - before news of the arrests broke

Suburban life: The Montclair, New Jersey house where'Richard Murphy' and 'Cynthia Murphy' were arrested by the FBI on Sunday

Suburban spies? Neighbours point outside the residence of Donald Howard Heathfield and Tracey Lee Ann Foley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after their arrest

The arrests are already likely to cause huge diplomatic embarrassment and chill relations between Mr Medvedv and U.S. President Barack Obama at a time when they had been thawing.

Today Mr Obama refused to answer questions over the arrests.

Meanwhile Russian premier Vladimir Putin - himself a former KGB hardman - said he hoped the case would not damage recent gains made in U.S.-Russia relations.

Foley is believed to be in her 40s and the mother of two teenage sons.

Her husband Donald Heathfield is also accused of being a Russian agent.

He was posing as a Canadian citizen, living with Foley in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard University is located.

The pair have lived in the U.S. since 1999.

Foley, Heathfield, and their nine co-accused allegedly used invisible ink, short-wave radios, steganography and wi-fi in cafés to pass coded messages back to Russia - including information on nuclear weapons.

Some of them are believed to have been operating for more than a decade.

One is a red-headed femme fatale named Anna Chapman.

Believed to be a 28-year-old divorcee with a masters' degree in economics and her own online real-estate business, she is being held without bail after prosecutors called her a 'highly trained agent' and a 'practised deceiver'.
Chapman is believed to have used her high-profile connections to pass American secrets on to a Russian government official every Wednesday since January.

On Saturday, an undercover FBI agent posing as a Russian agent met with Chapman at a restaurant in New York.
The agent was pretending to send the alleged spy on a mission to deliver a fake passport to another female agent, according to court documents.

'Are you ready for this step?' he asked.

'S*** yes,' was her emphatic reply.

She was told that her fellow spy would greet her by asking: 'Haven't we met in California last summer?'

Chapman - who agents believe was operating under her real name - was supposed to reply: 'No, I think it was in the Hamptons.'
Once she had handed over the passport, she was to plant a stamp on a wall map to let her handlers know she had succeeded.

But the exchange never took place. The FBI court documents do not explain why.

One of her co-accused, Mikhail Semenko, was similarly set up in Washington by the FBI on the same day.

Unlike Chapman, he did follow through with his delivery.

The FBI also watched Chapman as she sat in a coffee shop in New York and used her lap top to, they claim, communicated with a Russian agent hiding in a mini-van nearby.

And she was once observed going into a Verizon mobile phone shop in Brooklyn to buy a phone using the name 'Irine Kutsov' - giving her address as '99 Fake Street'.

She intended to use the phone for her spying activities, the FBI claimed.

Chapman's lawyer Robert Baum argued that the allegations were exaggerated.

'This is not a case that raises issues of security of the United States,' he said.

The alleged spies have been charged with acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government and with money laundering.

Ten were arrested in the U.S. yesterday and charged in American courts. An 11th man had been on the run - but was arrested by police in Cyprus this morning.

However he was released on bail. Police have not yet explained why.

Among the accused were four couples, including Foley and Heathfield, living quietly in the suburbs of New York and Washington and Boston.

They are believed to have married as part of their cover.

One of the married women, believed to be working under her real name, is Vicky Pelaez, a Peruvian born reporter and editor.

She worked for several years for El Diario/La Prensa, one of the country's best-known Spanish-language newspapers.

She is best known for her opinion columns, which often criticize the U.S. government.
Her son, Waldo Mariscal, told the court that his mother was innocent.

'This is a farce,' he said. 'We don't know the other people.'

In January 2000, Pelaez was videotaped meeting with a Russian government official at a public park in Peru, where she received a bag from the official, according to one complaint.

Pelaez and her husband Juan Lazaro discussed plans to pass covert messages with invisible ink to Russian officials during another trip Pelaez took to South America, the court documents also claim.

The FBI said it intercepted a message from Moscow Center, headquarters of Russia's intelligence service, the SVR, to some of the defendants describing their main mission as 'to search and develop ties in policy-making circles in U.S.'

Intercepted messages showed they were asked to learn about a wide range of topics, including nuclear weapons, U.S. arms control positions, Iran, White House rumours, CIA leadership turnover, the last presidential election, Congress and the political parties.
Court papers also described a new high-tech spy-to-spy communications system used by the defendants: short-range wireless communications between laptop computers.

Working on laptops from free public wi-fi, the spies carried out the modern supplement for the old-style dead drop in a remote area, or high-speed burst radio transmission or the hollowed-out nickels used by Cold War-era Russian spies to conceal and deliver microfilm.

But, despite the new technology, there was no lack of Cold War spycraft.

According to the court papers, the alleged agents used invisible ink, stayed in touch with Moscow Center through coded bursts of data sent by a radio transmitter, used innocent-looking 'brush' encounters to pass messages in public, hid encrypted data in public images and relied on fake identities and false travel documents.

The arrests are already likely to cause huge diplomatic embarrassment and chill relations between Mr Medvedv and U.S. President Barack Obama at a time when they had been thawing.

The two leaders met last week at the White House, and also both attended the G8 and G20 meetings over the weekend in Canada.

Russia's embassy said it was unaware of the arrests and is seeking more information. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said he will seek an explanation from the U.S. on the allegations.

'They haven't explained to us what this is about,' Lavrov said at a news conference during a visit to Jerusalem today.

'I hope they will.

'The only thing I can say today is that the moment for doing that has been chosen with special elegance.'

Many Americans have refused to believe that Russia has changed from the lawless days when the country was run by Russia's spying agency, the KGB.

Their fears have been compounded because former President and now Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former First Chief Directorate of the KGB, still effectively controls the country, despite stepping down from power in 2008.

Intelligence on Mr Obama's foreign policy, particularly toward Russia, appears to have been a top priority by the alleged spy ring.

The plot appears to have been going on since some point in the 1990s.

Most of those arrested had been living under assumed names, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

The defendants appeared in court last night.

Should they be convicted of being an agent of a foreign government, they face up to five years in jail, and up to 20 for the money laundering.
The spies' mission was spelled out in one communication sent to two of the defendants: 'Your education, bank accounts, car, house etc. - all these serve one goal: fullfil your main mission, i.e to search and develop ties in policymaking circles in US and send intels' to the Moscow Centre', the Kremlin's spy HQ.

Anna Chapman was of particular interest - and not just for her reputation as a beauty.
She is believed to have entered the Russian Mission to the United Nations on ten occasions and sent messages to agents via a private wi-fi network.

On other occasions she would sit outside a coffee shop or go inside a book store whilst a van with a Russian agent in it parked up nearby, allowing them to share the same wi-fi.

In a series of 'info tasks', Russia is said to have given the spies assignments.

In one for May and June, they had to 'gather information with regard to the use of the Internet by terrorists, United States policies in Central Asia and Western estimation of Russian foreign policy'.

In spring 2009, the documents say, alleged conspirators, Richard and Cynthia Murphy, who lived in New Jersey, were asked for information about Mr Obama's impending trip to Russia that summer.

They were also asked for the U.S. negotiating position on the START nuclear arms reduction treaty as well as Afghanistan and the approach Washington would take in dealing with Iran's suspect nuclear program.

They were also asked to send background on U.S. officials travelling with Mr Obama or involved in foreign policy.

'Try to outline their views and most important Obama's goals (sic) which he expects to achieve during summit in July and how does his team plan to do it (arguments, provisions, means of persuasion to 'lure' (Russia) into cooperation in U.S. interests,' Moscow asked.

Moscow wanted reports 'which should reflect approaches and ideas of' four sub-Cabinet U.S. foreign policy officials.

One intercepted message said Cynthia Murphy, 'had several work-related personal meetings with' a man the court papers describe as a prominent New York-based financier active in politics.

In response, Moscow Center described the man as a very interesting target and urged the defendants to 'try to build up little by little relations. ...

'Maybe he can provide' Murphy 'with remarks re US foreign policy, 'roumors' about White house internal 'kitchen,' invite her to venues (to major political party HQ in NYC, for instance. ... In short, consider carefully all options in regard' to the financier.

The papers allege the defendants' spying has been going on for years.

One defendant in Massachusetts made contact in 2004 with an unidentified man who worked at a U.S. government research facility.

'He works on issues of strategic planning related to nuclear weapon development,' the defendant's intelligence report said.

The defendant 'had conversations with him about research programs on small yield high penetration nuclear warheads recently authorized by U.S. Congress (nuclear 'bunker-buster' warheads),' according to the report.

One message back to Moscow from the defendants focused on turnover at the top level of the CIA and the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

The information was described as having been received in private conversation with, among others, a former legislative counsel for Congress.

The court papers deleted the name of the counsel.

In the papers, FBI agents said the defendants communicated with alleged Russian agents using mobile wireless transmissions between laptop computers - a new spying method.

They established a short-range wireless network between laptop computers of the agents and sent encrypted messages between the computers while they were close to each other.






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