The BORN identity: Russian secret agent Anna Chapman gives birth to her first child in Moscow but refuses to name the father
- Anna Chapman was stripped of her British citizenship after the spy claims
- She was deported from the United States in 2010 and runs an antique shop
- In 2014 she proposed to ex-CIA whistleblower Edward Snowdon on Twitter
- She claimed her mother Irina will help her raise year newborn son
Former Russian spy Anna Chapman, who was once ordered to seduce whistleblower Edward Snowden, has given birth to her first child, it has been reported.
The 33-year-old, who lost her British citizenship and was deported from America after a spying scandal in 2010, had been trying to keep the news a secret.
And so far, the name of the father or the name of her newborn son have not been disclosed.
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Former Russian spy Anna Chapman, pictured, has reportedly given birth to a baby son in Moscow
The secret agent was deported from the United States five years ago after her double life was exposed
The ex-spy, who now runs an antique shop in a trendy district of Moscow and works as a TV host, said to Russian online magazine Starhit: 'I wanted to be very private about it.'
Controversial Chapman once proposed to Snowden on Twitter as a ruse to keep him in Moscow after his defection from America but nothing more is known about their relationship.
Reports surfaced in 2014 alleging that Chapman had tried to seduce whistleblower Edward Snowden on orders from the Kremlin, according to a defector Boris Karpichkov, a former KGB agent.
Her son was born in a privately-run top clinic in Moscow and according to the Russian media outlet, both the new parent and the infant are said to be doing well.
Pregnancy rumours started circulating recently when she was spotted in a Moscow cafe showing her baby bump.
Chapman, pictured, has so far refused to release details of the baby's father or the child's name
Customers were surprised by the size of her distended abdomen and her pregnancy became undeniable.
Her mother Irina has already moved into her daughter's house on the outskirts of Moscow and Anna is expected to return to work soon.
She said: 'My mother Irina will help me with my son.'
News of the birth has spawned a lot of traffic on social media sites and an anonymous guest user of the magazine Starhit said: 'Most likely the father of the baby is Snowden, even though he looks like Julian Assange.'
Assange originally helped whistleblower Snowden who was working for the National Security Agency in America to flee to Russia.
Chapman told her fans earlier today: 'Thank you for congratulating me.'
Without disclosing the earlier birth of her child, she appeared at an event on September 2 in Moscow.
A journalist who met her earlier in the summer said: 'She actually is a beauty, even nine months pregnant.'
Despite her public profile in Moscow, she has maintained strict secrecy over her private life in recent years.
During her pregnancy she was fired from her post at a Moscow bank mired in a space corruption scandal.
One of Vladimir Putin's closest aides, deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin, claimed money stashed in FondServisBank - where she was a board director - should have been used to modernise Russia's creaking space industry.
Money redirected under suspicious circumstances to the bank was behind a failure to upgrade Russian rockets which has led to a spate of accidents plaguing the space sector including the loss of a Proton rocket in 15 May, he claimed.
The bank was put into administration by the Russian Central Bank, and under the supervision of the Russian Deposit Insurance Agency, in accordance with bankruptcy law.
There was no suggestion of wrongdoing by Chapman.
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