A glamorous ex-CIA analyst accused of working as a secret agent for South Korea dodged The Post’s questions over the bombshell allegations — hailing a taxi and apparently having it run a red light to make her escape.
Sue Mi Terry, 54, left her nearly $2 million Upper West Side home Thursday morning — two days after the feds arrested her on a charge of acting as a foreign agent — nervously looking at her phone and checking over her shoulder.
The Post caught up with Terry outside a West 72nd Street medical office, where she tried to avoid questions by unsuccessfully hailing a cab that wouldn’t take her, telling a reporter “I am very late” and ultimately denying she was a foreign agent.
When The Post asked why she was charged, she replied: “It will all be explained”.
“My lawyers are working on it.”
Terry then hopped in a cab that drove aimlessly around the Upper East Side before stopping near Park Avenue, where she appeared to pay the cabbie.
But Terry stayed in the cab, which sped off and ran a red light, eluding The Post.
The chase came after Terry and her husband Max Boot, a Washington Post national security columnist, put up their tony Upper West Side apartment as collateral for her $500,000 personal recognizance bond as a condition of her release before trial.
The six-room, $1.8 million turn-of-the-century home features lavish wood paneling, built-in bookcase, stained glass windows and airy 10-foot ceilings, according to its StreetEasy listing.
The taste for such luxury is what allegedly drove Terry — a native of Seoul who formerly worked as a CIA analyst before becoming a prominent policy expert linked to several think tanks — to disclose US secret to South Korean spies, Manhattan federal prosecutors said.
Terry traded her access to information from top US officials, including US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in exchange for luxury goodies such as a $3,450 Louis Vuitton handbag and a $2,845 Dolce & Gabbana coat, prosecutors said.
During Terry’s mad dash from The Post, she appeared to have swapped out designer duds for a more understated look of cut-off straight leg jeans, a sleeveless blouse and chunky heel ankle boots.
As part of her bail conditions, Terry also had to give up her passport. Her next court date is July 30.
Her lawyer Lee Wolosky — a politically well-connected attorney and diplomat whom President Biden had picked as a White House counsel — contended in a statement that the accusations against Terry were unfounded and, without providing corroboration, maintained she was a harsh critic of the South Korean government.
“Once the facts are made clear it will be evident the government made a significant mistake,” he said.