Anna Chapman, the come-hither Russian spy, threw off her cloak, stowed the dagger and stepped out of the shadows earlier this week.

She returned to public view at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Friday, where she watched two Russians and one American astronaut rocket away to the international space station, The Washington Post reports.

Chapman - one of the 10 sleeper spies arrested in the United States in June, then sent home in a spy swap in July - has kept pretty much under cover here ever since.

But there she was Friday, wearing an eye-catching, bright red coat (hidden identities are so 2009).

Chapman attended the event, according to various accounts, as part of her new duties as an assistant to the head of a bank that works with aerospace industries. When reporters recognized her and crowded around, she said, provocatively, "I have just arrived."

Then a burly man whisked her away.

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