Ten booking photos provided by U.S. Marshals on Thursday show, top, from left, Cynthia Murphy, whose real name is Lydia Guryev; Patricia Mills (Natalya Pereverzeva); Anna Chapman; Tracey Lee Ann Foley (Yelena Vavilova); Vicky Pelaez; and bottom, from left, Richard Murphy (Vladimir Guryev); Michael Zottoli (Mikhail Kutsik); Mikhail Semenko; Donald Heathfield (Andrei Bezrukov); and Juan Lazaro (Mikhail Vasenkov).
The 10 pleaded guilty to acting as unregistered foreign agents for Russia in a U.S. court and were deported to Moscow on July 9.
(AP, MT)
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