Edward Snowden’s Secret (Agent) Admirer: Spy Anna Chapman

MOSCOW – Fugitive National Security Agency  contractor Edward Snowden may have few choices about where he can live, but he suddenly has a number of options about who he can marry.
Superstar Russian spy Anna Chapman has professed her love for the admitted leaker of highly classified details of U.S. surveillance programs.“Snowden, will you marry me?!” the 31-year-old femme fatale wrote on Twitter.

She later asked, “NSA, will you look after our children?”
When asked by email if she was serious, Ms. Chapman told the Wall Street Journal “you are welcome to use your imagination.”
On the flip side of the political spectrum, opposition activist Maria Baranova chimed in hours later with a similar offer.
“I would also like to offer Snowden my heart and mostly my passport! Edward! Marry Me!” she also posted on Twitter. She later said hinted to this newspaper that she may not have been 100% serious.

Mr. Snowden, 30 years old, has been trapped in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport since arriving on a flight from Hong Kong on June 23, two days after U.S. authorities has unsealed a criminal indictment charging him with espionage.
He left behind a fiancé and $200,000 a year job with government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton when he decided to flee the United States before turning details of the program over to reporters.
Ms. Chapman was tossed out of the United States with nine other Russia spies in 2010. Since then she has been a minor celebrity in Russia, getting jobs as a model, a spokesperson. Most recently she has hosted a show on Russian television called “Secrets of the World.”
Hours after offering her hand in marriage, REN-TV, which broadcasts her show, posted an “exclusive” teaser on its Facebook FB +0.45% page promising to show “Anna Chapman hunting for Snowden at Sheremetyevo.” The link, however, was to a YouTube promo for her show from April in which she subdues several masked men in a shadowy corridor.

By Lukas I. Alpert and Alexander Kolyandr / SPEAKEASY