Finally: Hot Russian spy's ex-husband speaks

Yesterday Mr Chapman told of his suspicions that in 2005, as their marriage broke down, she was being ‘conditioned’ by shadowing contacts, and her own 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 Daily Telegraph.

‘Her father controlled everything in her life, and I felt she would have done anything for her dad…

‘Towards the end of our marriage she became very secretive, going for meetings on her own with ‘Russian friends’, and I guess it might have been because she was in contact with the Russian government.’