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.
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