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

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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