Russian spy temptress is friend fatale

What's the first thing a spy does when she comes in from the cold? For Russian Anna Chapman — the most celebrated member of the network of U.S. spies dubbed the "illegals" by their Russian handlers — the answer is obvious: Check in on Facebook.

At 10:15 p.m. Eastern time on July 9, just hours after arriving in her Russian homeland via a historic spy swap on the tarmac of a Vienna airport, Chapman changed her Facebook status to a rather commonplace quote from "A Tale of Two Cities": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... (Charles Dickens)."

She also took care to update her profile picture to the glamour shot shown.

Chapman was an avid user of Facebook and LinkedIn during her time as a Russian mole living in the United States. After her arrest, her Facebook profile — which featured numerous status updates from Chapman, together with photos available to any user who came along — was left wide open for gawkers to check in on while she sat in a jail cell. Once out, she quickly shut off access to the photos, changed her picture, and let people know that she was in a Dickensian mood.

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She also updated her privacy settings to prevent people from seeing who her Facebook friends are, or how many she has. But she is apparently accepting friend requests from American admirers. One commenter posted on her wall: "A beautiful Russian spy, Anna Chapman, just accepted my friend request. If you don't hear from me for a while, I've been traded for a prisoner."