![]() Chinese agents, active in the UK, offer to Western agents and businessmen money and sex to gain valuable information. In the past ten years, China tried to use honeypots in Western countries in order to steal secrets. The Chinese wanted to put pressure on individuals and convince them to cooperate with them. It warned these businesses that the Chinese intelligence was trying to use a “honey trap”. In 2009, the MI5 circulated a 14-page document named “ The Threat from Chinese Espionage” to British businesses and banks. ![]() It attracts hackers in order to distract them from the real target or to gain knowledge about their modus operandi. The term honeypot is also employed in the computing field, and it means “baiting a trap for hackers”. Pakistan created and used these profiles in order to gain valuable and classified information. In just a month, the Indian law enforcement identified 150 fake profiles. They know not to use social media to divulge intelligence. The officers and their families are regularly warned about this. In the last two years, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence is using this practice on Indian officers working in the Defence Department or in the Indian armed forces. They were so talented and successful that at one point they were engaged to 38 soldiers between them. The term “kompromat” stood for “compromising material”.ĭuring the Civil War, in Tennessee, two sisters, Ginnie and Lottie Moon, also called “the Moon Sister Spies”, used their seduction skills to gain information from Union soldiers and spy for the Confederates. The KGB, the Soviet Security Agency, used to identify women with the term “swallow”, men with “raven”. ![]() ![]() It described the Soviet activities which were targeting the West and especially the United States. The art of seducing was employed many years ago, but the term “honeypot” became popular during the Cold War. This practice is not only used to gain classified information, sometimes agents also employ it to capture or kill a target. They usually identify the covert agent, which most of the time is a woman, by her knowledge of foreign countries and languages, beauty, and intellect. The Secret Services recruits women and groom them to target and seduce embassy staff or guards, policymakers, and financial institutions. Honeypot, or honey trap, is a term employed in the espionage world, and describes an operational practice in which a covert agent utilises a romantic or sexual relationship to compromise a target for valuable intelligence. ![]()
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