Russian security services ‘may use honey traps to blackmail personnel’
British officials warned to avoid sexual encounters in leaked report
Tactic was used extensively and effectively during the Cold War
Indian RAW Agent Honeytrapped by CIA before Rajiv Gandhi Assassination
Top military officials have been warned not to have sex with attractive women in Russia or China in case they are spies, it has been reported.
A leaked document says agents of the FSB, Russia’s intelligence service and successor to the Soviet-era KGB, could attempt to lure British officials into bed and then blackmail them.
As Daily Mail reported
The document, the Ministry of Defence Manual of Security, warns senior officers that the FSB, could gain valuable intelligence by exploiting ‘knowledge of marital infidelity or sexual activity the target may wish to hide’.
So convincing were these young men that one woman who was told her lover had been a spy that she refused to believe it, stating: ‘He did really love me.’
One senior military official told the Sunday Times how a very attractive blonde woman in her early 30s approached him in a St Petersburg hotel and began chatting about how she loved vintage British sports cars – the man’s hobby.
She flirted with him and he suddenly became suspicious and left suddenly.
He said: ‘I think i said something very awkward like “sorry, it’s my bedtime” and scarpered. I put it down as a close shave.’
A Ministry of Defence spokesperson refused to comment on the report.
The honey-trapping incidence of RAW’s agent K.V. Unnikrishnan in 1980s
In early 1980s, K.V. Unnikrishnan, a 1962 batch IPS officer, who was posted at R&AW station in Colombo was honeytrapped by CIA. Between 1985–87 when he was deputed as the station chief at Chennai, co-ordinating Sri Lanka operations, he gave away information to his handler on training and arming Tamil groups including LTTE and the Indian government’s negotiating positions on the peace accord with Sri Lanka. He was caught by IB counter-intelligence in 1987, spent a year in Tihar jail and was dismissed from IPS cadre.
Unnikrishnan’s betrayal was well before Rajiv Gandhi assassination in 1991. He was led into a honey trap when he was posted in Colombo in the early 1980s. But his handlers, in typical intelligence operations protocol, waited until he was important for them. They then revived contact when he was put in charge of LTTE operations in Chennai in 1985-86.
Sex for Secrets : RAW Agent Honey-trapped by CIA before Rajiv Gandhi Assassination
More than 3,500 Americans spies are illegally overstaying in India since 2006
The CIA is sending Indian-origin and south Asian-origin officers to India so that they can merge better
CIA spies are secretly travelling through different Indian states and are setting up networks to watch political developments and separatist movements. These networks will seek information about India’s nuclear arsenal and military modernisation
Through UIDAI project CIA plans to track each and every Indian citizen
India’s growing clout has persuaded the CIA to turn the spyglass on New Delhi. All these plans are part of CIA-2015, Panetta’s grand blueprint for the CIA’s resurrection. Panetta wants the agency to recruit, train and retain a diverse workforce for more innovative deployments abroad.
These plans were published in a report titled Global Trends 2015 – A Dialogue about the Future with Non Governmental Experts under the direction of the National Intelligence Council (NIC). (Courtesy: http://bodhita.com/)
