Chapman, dubbed as a modern-day Mata Hari, was outfitted with a USD 2,300 Chanel bag featuring a hidden, high-powered Wi-Fi device so she could secretly communicate with her Moscow-led overseers.
The bag, still in FBI custody, is part of a bevy of other Chapman goodies are on display as part of the exhibition about spies and their gizmos at Discovery Times Square that opened today, New York Post reported.
A pair of FBI handcuffs used to arrest the flame-haired stunner and the Toshiba laptop that led eventually unmasked the 30-year-old are among the other items on display.
"If she had been here another six months, Anna Chapman could have become the most dangerous spy in American history," said former CIA operative H Keith Melton, who is curating the exhibition.
Melton believes Chapman was well on her way to severally compromising US business interests until she foolishly handed off her Toshiba laptop
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