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usonian

(26,593 posts)
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 05:01 PM Oct 2024

Who's a sucker for beautiful foreign women? Russian spies? and what are the chances?

Dublin's storied pubs this week were buzzing with salacious gossip about a politician compromised by a Russian honeytrap.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/10/10/honeytrap-russian-spy-scandal-shows-ireland-is-europes-soft-underbelly-a86647

Cobalt was not the first Western politician to fall for a honeytrap and he certainly will not be the last. Femme fatales have long been a hallmark of Russian espionage, and no one has perfected the honey trap quite like the Russians. As the former KGB General Oleg Kalugin once quipped, the Soviet intelligence agency did not ask Russian women to stand up for their country but “asked them to lay down.”


Nahhhhhh



From an article (2018): What if Trump has been a Russian asset since 1987? (and who wants odds on that? )
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/trump-putin-russia-collusion.html
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Who's a sucker for beautiful foreign women? Russian spies? and what are the chances? (Original Post) usonian Oct 2024 OP
Doing a bad Bert Parks impression. Frasier Balzov Oct 2024 #1
I certainly am. I met one fifty years ago, married her, and we are still together DFW Oct 2024 #2
I doubt she's a Russian spy. usonian Oct 2024 #3
Thanks! I've seen her family geneaology DFW Oct 2024 #4

DFW

(60,436 posts)
2. I certainly am. I met one fifty years ago, married her, and we are still together
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 05:55 PM
Oct 2024


Is it OK if she's not Russian?

usonian

(26,593 posts)
3. I doubt she's a Russian spy.
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 06:53 PM
Oct 2024

I suspect that my wife of 27 years was trying to pry out secrets (I worked in aerospace) for the Philippines, but gave up and divorced me.

I kept my secrets secret!

They only have these cube sats.
They'll have to do it on their own.
“Tagumpay sa inyo.”


Ruler not shown.
Found it:
The Maya-3 and Maya-4, measuring 10x10x10 centimeters with an approximate weight of 1.15 kilograms
10 cm. is 4 inches. Oh well.

Happy 50th!!!

DFW

(60,436 posts)
4. Thanks! I've seen her family geneaology
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 07:09 PM
Oct 2024

They have a book. The recorded family members date back to the year 1473. As German as they can get, 100%. If any Russians slipped in there, it would have to have been before that.

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