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Honey traps have a long history of use in the field of espionage. Especially during the Cold War...
There is a spy novel by Somerset Maugham in which an English agent named Ashenden, in his life as a talented bourgeois writer, is entertained by his MI5 recruiter with the story of a French agent who is deceived by a mysterious woman , who manages to steal documents from him through sex. A trap that John LeCarré, writer and agent, made known to the world through the figurative expression "honey trap".
The French paradox
As the British magazine The Spectator reported last week: "French spies are impossible to blackmail into honey traps because their wives already know they are having sexual affairs." That would be why the old method of gathering information would to prove sterile and fruitless in front of the secret agents of the European power known to the world for the invention of "Ménage à trios". The main source of the discovery is a documentary broadcast on France 2, where a secret agent known by the pseudonym "Nicolas" stated that Soviet double spies or rather "defectors" were talking about the "French paradox". That is, the impossibility of blackmailing a spy from what was once known as the Deuxième Bureau. So spies were photographed in sexual affairs and blackmailed that the photos would be u were sent to their wives.
This "honey trap" trick simply "wouldn't have worked," claimed French 007. Why? Because a French spy would have replied: "Go ahead, my wife already knows.
Whether fact or fiction - the history of espionage, between fact and fiction, has given us many ideas about the practice of honey traps and so-called sexual espionage - according to what was reported in an article in the Times, this activity will was a favorite of the Chinese spy apparatus. And we must not forget, in fact, the famous sex scandal and espionage intrigue that saw the Chinese agent Shi Pei Pu as the protagonist and the reckless Bernard Boursicot, a French diplomat on a mission to the great Communist Republic, who was seduced by Madame Butterfly.
From Russia with love..
Honey traps have a long history of use in the field of espionage. Especially during the Cold War, when the sexual taboos created by conformity - be it polygamy or homosexuality - could indeed represent the perfect object for blackmail, capable of inciting treason to the country or the cause.
Female spies called "Mozhnos" employed by the Russian KGB to spy on foreign officials by seducing them, for example, have become popular. The name Mozhno, derived from the Russian word можно, means "it is allowed" and was closely associated with permission to violate regulations limiting contact between Soviet citizens and foreigners. Another interesting example was that devised by the Hauptverëaltung Aufklärung of the Stasi, the security and espionage organization of the German Democratic Republic, which under the orders of Markus Wolff, known as Misha, employed people known as "Romeos" to lure sensitive targets.
Historian and espionage expert Ben Macintyre recalled how even "very intelligent people do very stupid things for sex" and how "intelligence, education, patriotism and character are often powerless in the face of a well-conceived and carefully executed honey trap". From Mata Hari to the coded spy "Cindy", who managed to trap the Mossad, Mordechai Vanunu, passing through the charm of Coco Chanel, a high-ranking collaborator of the German Abehr during the Second World War. So the historical examples seem to contradict the claims of the French spy agent Nicolas. Instead, demonstrating how honey traps and even the most sophisticated catfishing can still pose a threat to anyone in possession of sensitive information. Even in our extremely promiscuous age, where minds are as open as social media profiles and most sexual taboos have fallen. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Inside Over"
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