By clothing-bag, 07/03/2023

Reserved matter: Spies and sex | Zero Wave Radio

After the end of World War II and the consequent start of the Cold War, espionage was one of the most demanded activities in this confrontation that took place between the Western-capitalist blocs, led by the United States, and the Eastern- communist, led by the Soviet Union, from 1945 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. During the Cold War, both blocs used espionage and counter-espionage as their main weapon to obtain information or, where appropriate, to misinform their rival.

Both blocs had agencies that responded to this activity: the now-defunct communist KGB, as well as the current US CIA. However, there were also a multitude of independent spies who worked for either of the two blocks and therefore, had to resort to their own resources to obtain such precious information. This is how the so-called "honey traps" arose.

Honey traps

"Honey traps" are a espionage tool based on seduction, in such a way that it allows recruiting or discrediting certain agents who are not agree to the subsequent blackmail. That is to say, a spy, man or woman, seduces his victim to obtain information of interest with which said person can later also be blackmailed if necessary.

The writer and researcher Nigel West said that, historically, seduction techniques have always been the same, but still in the 21st century there are those who succumb to these deceptions. Perhaps it is, as Rueda explained, paraphrasing the writer, because "men do not always think with what God gave them to think about", or perhaps it is simply out of love.

Be that as it may, there are dozens of cases of women and men victims of these "honey traps" perpetrated by seductive natas or by the so-called Romeos -concepts that could well be understood the other way around, but that's the way history is- .

"The spy thinks that he is the one seducing, but he does not realize that he is the one seduced", pointed out Rueda.

Precisely for this reason, honey traps became one of the greatest fears of spies. However, each time the methods become more sophisticated and the new spies fear their consequences more. Fernando Ruedda explained that there are technological systems with which the agents' underwear is equipped to film compromising sexual scenes. "There are underwear equipped with high technology to record and facilitate the recording of images and to be able to carry out blackmail", he stated.

Rueda has revealed some of the most surprising cases in 'The Wind Rose'.