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When the author started suggesting that the woman he had an affair with was planted by the government to temp him, my hackles went up a bit. The US policy he t
by brookside 10y ago
When the author started suggesting that the woman he had an affair with was planted by the government to temp him, my hackles went up a bit.
The US policy he talks about is real enough, but autobiographical points struck me as questionable.
- Spooky23 10y agoWhy? It's pretty well known that intelligence services and others placed female agents in positions to develop sexual relationships with men and women in order to get information and apply influence. Hell, US propaganda books and movies (The Green Berets) have featured women in this role as quasi-heroines. I'm not asserting that the book is credible or not, I recall reading it a long time ago and honestly don't remember enough about it. But if the person is what he claimed to be, seems like the type of shenanigans that would take place.
- coldtea 10y agoWomen (and men) are used (sexually) as agents all the time by government agencies. "One former CIA officer said that while sexual entrapment wasn't generally a good tool to recruit a foreign official, it was sometimes employed successfully to solve short-term problems." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_HUMINT_asset_recruiting#Love.2C_honeypots.2C_and_recruitment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine_HUMINT_asset_recru...