Natalia Pereverzeva, a.k.a. Patricia Mills, one of the 11 Russian sleeper agents exposed in the United States last summer, has become the second of the group to receive a high-ranking post in a state-run company, the Kommersant paper said on Wednesday.
Pereverzeva, who was a housewife when she lived in the United States, has been made an aide to the president of state pipeline operator Transneft.
Ten of the agents were sent back to Russia in July in return for four U.S. spies in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War. They received unspecified state honors from President Dmitry Medvedev in October.
Andrei Bezrukov, a.k.a. Donald Heathfield, another member of the spy ring, was appointed advisor to the director of Russian oil giant Rosneft in October.
But it is Anna Chapman, the glamorous femme fatale of the group, who has been getting the most attention.
She is now leader of Molodaya Gvardiya (Young Guard), the youth wing of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
Chapman has made the headlines several times since she was deported in July, posing for Russian men's magazines and becoming a representative of a Moscow bank.
MOSCOW, January 12 (RIA Novosti)
