Honeypot (espionage)
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In espionage, a honeypot or honeytrap is a trap set to capture, kill or compromise an enemy agent using sex as the lure.
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Clayton J. Lonetree
In 1987 U.S. Marine Sergeant Clayton J. Lonetree was entrapped by a female Soviet officer when he was an embassy guard in Moscow. He was then blackmailed into handing over documents when he was assigned to Vienna.
Mordechai Vanunu
On September 30, 1986 an American Mossad agent, Cheryl Bentov, operating under the name "Cindy" and masquerading as an American tourist, began an affair with Mordechai Vanunu who had disclosed Israeli nuclear secrets. She persuaded him to fly to Rome, Italy with her on a holiday. Once in Rome, Mossad agents drugged him and smuggled him to Israel on a freighter.
Fiction
- North by Northwest has Eva Marie Saint as both the honeypot and a double agent
- Munich (film) "beware the local honeypot in the bar"
- Traffic (film) same sex honeypot trap
See also
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Honeypot_(espionage)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(espionage), used under the GNU Free Documentation License
