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23 http://www.soft-technology.org/html/menu/about-us-en.html

24 www.chinagreenfuture.com

25 Email to the author, 22 February, 2011.

26 ‘Anticipatory leadership’ http://www.fccsingapore.com/fileadmin/template/images/news/Future%20Map_AnticipatoryLeadership_FCCS91118.pdf

27 http://myfuturemap.com/Donald_G4S.html

28 Global Partners declined to respond to requests for comment about Heathfield’s time there.

29 Interview with the author, 1 March 2011.

30 Who wishes to remain anonymous – in itself a telling sign of the climate in Russia.

31 The best biography of Harold Adrian Russell (‘Kim’) Philby is Philby: KGB Masterspy by Phillip Knightley (André Deutsch, 2003).

7 The New Illegals

1 http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=21028567. It now lists him just as ‘Mikhail’ to non-subscribers.

2 Complaint 1, Para 8.

3 For an account of Semenko’s activities at a think-tank meeting, see ‘My spy story – Washington Times writer meets Putin’s agent’ by James Robbins, Washington Times, 30 June 2010 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/30/my-spy-story/

4 His book on the subject is Secret Empire: KGB in Russia Today (Westview Press Inc, 1994).

5 For salacious coverage of Ms Chapman, it is hard to beat the former British Sunday tabloid the News of the World. Its website no longer works, but the story from 5 July 2010 called ‘Mile High Sex Games with My Spy in the Sky’ is available at http://patdollard.com/2010/7/naked-pictures-of-sexy-russian-spy/

6 http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=26221285

7 A rough cut of a television interview with Ms Chapman can be seen here http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/7/1/russian-spy-suspect-anna-chapman-exclusive-video-beauty-talks-about-uk-links-115875-22373084/#ixzzsRiPh5Nm

8 I have seen extensive email correspondence between Ms Chapman and a potential investor in her company, who has asked me not to identify him in order to uphold the implicit commercial confidentiality of the exchanges.

9 http://www.scribd.com/doc/33836446/NYC-Rentals-Business-Pitch

10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js_6-UwdkyU

11 www.elliotsblog.com/domain-investor-connection-to-alleged-russian-spy-4992

12 ‘Red-hot beauty Anna Chapman snared in Russia “spy” ring’ by Bruce  Golding, Andy Soltis and Cathy Burke, NYPOST.com, 29 June 2010 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/spy_ring_qzWW8bImf9yEDTbtXcQnUL

13 The FBI in October 2011 released some surveillance footage of the meeting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-SCKuvxqo

14 An English version of the story is available at http://www.sovlit.com/miltarysecret/militarysecret1.html

15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVpqiRD_fCA

16 103 Gibson Gardens, London N16 7HD.

17 Quoted in ‘Anna Chapman: Diplomat’s daughter who partied with billionaires’ by Amelia Hill, Rajeev Syal, Luke Harding and Paul Harris, Guardian, 1 July 2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/30/anna-chapman-russian-spy-ring

18 The claim is examined at ‘Here’s The Real Role Anna Chapman Actually Had At The Hedge Fund Navigator’ by Courtney Comstock, 1 July 2010 http://www.businessinsider.com/anna-chapman-navigator-asset-management-advisors-nicholas-camilleri-2010-7

19 ‘Agent Anna the Man Hunter: London flatmate reveals how she and Russian spy used sex to prey on string of oligarchs who were enemies of Kremlin bosses’ by Richard Pendlebury, Daily Mail, 25 September 2010. The story implies that Ms Chapman had an intimate relationship with a fugitive Russian oligarch, and that she was separately in contact with Mr Berezovsky.

20 ‘Security services “foil plot to kill Berezovsky at the London Hilton”’ by Richard Beeston, The Times, 18 July 2007 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2094719.ece

21 08 HARARE 1016, REGIME ELITES LOOTING DEADLY DIAMOND FIELD http://213.251.145.96/cable/2008/11/8HARARE1016.html

22 The only company Lindi Sharpe was associated with was called Nexgen Builders, dissolved in 2002. She was company secretary; the sole director was her daughter, Rychelle Sharpe.

23 Some news reports have described Southern Union as a charity. It is not registered on the UK Charity Commission website. The companies mentioned here have no connection with Southern Union Money Transfer Ltd of Dagenham, established in 2011.

24 ‘Redhead Russian spy linked to money smuggling ring’ by Barbara Jones (pseudonym), Daily Mail, 18 July 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295606/Redhead-spy-linked-UK-money-smuggling-ring.html

25 I have talked extensively to Mr Sugden. For an example of the media coverage, see ‘MI5 probes link between Russian spy and Zimbabwean businessman’ by Daniel Boffey, Daily Mail, 4 July 2010 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291828/MI5-probe-links-Russian-spy-Anna-Chapman-mysterious-Zimbabwean-businessman.html

‘Caught up in a spy ring scandal’ by Mary Harris, 9 July 2010 http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/news/Caught-spy-ring-scandal/article-2394123-detail/article.html. A possibly related company with a similar name was dissolved on 8 November 2005.

26 www.hi5.com/friend/p41744008—sugden+steven—html (defunct). In order to try to exclude him from the story, I contacted all the friends listed on the social-networking site. One replied, confirming that Sugden existed. The others did not answer.

27 http://namesdatabase.com/people/SUGDEN/STEVEN/14248266 (defunct)

28 Southern Union Money Transfers Limited was incorporated on 19 August 2003. It was also registered at a misspelled address, 3 Gold Street Muse [sic], Northampton.