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Social media could be a perfect cover: An Instagram "model" who travels the world hooking up with rich guys who will pay for her trips. Am I being sarcastic or

Social media could be a perfect cover: An Instagram "model" who travels the world hooking up with rich guys who will pay for her trips. Am I being sarcastic or serious?

laurent92 5y ago
But seen another way: Hookers are, in my mind, the epitome of suspects of spying… I suppose a third of the world is driven by pillow discussions, whether actual spying, just influence, mere affinity, or rape accusations to get rid of a political person.
- nonameiguess 5y ago
  This is the plot of the first season of House of Cards and how Rachel Brosnahan got her first major television role before being cast as Mrs. Maisel.
- hoseja 5y ago
  Do you remember that recent HN post from high-profile escort? She built detailed dossiers on the johns as a matter of course, supposedly for screening.
mach1ne 5y ago
The CIA has at least tried this in the modern times with 99.9% probability. They try everything, and this is a low-risk high-gain setup.
VictorPath 5y ago
Certainly this happens. Among other things it is useful for blackmail - "we will reveal to your wife etc. that you slept with a woman/prostitute". Spy agencies call it a "honey trap". Eleven years ago, someone could be discharged from the US military if they were found to be homosexual. Due to things like this, it was popular to target homosexuals in the military. They were already made to conceal part of their life to keep their job, now they just add one more thing to that. A debriefing of a double agent revealed that the British turned a high level male target by putting him together with an underage boy during the target's visit to Lebanon in the 1980's. The British had the Lebanese police barge in during the tryst and arrest the target. The offer was then made - work for us or go to a Lebanese prison and have it revealed at home you are a homosexual pedophile. The target was turned. The Stasi had an unusual spin on this - usually males are targeted, but due to World War II, West Germany had a lack of men who had been born in the 1920s, and a lot of unmarried women of that age. So "Romeo" agents targeted secretaries working at high level offices, and this operation was a successful one. Most spying is not James Bond level exciting - 45% of it is keeping up with technological innovation, 45% of it is getting positive press for your country worldwide, and negative press for rivals. Or maybe those percentages are juggled one way or another. The other 10% is honey traps, dead drops, wet work, ensuring Patrice Lumumba is shot and things like that.

Social media could be a perfect cover: An Instagram "model" who travels the world hooking up with rich guys who will pay for her trips. Am I being sarcastic or serious?

laurent92 5y ago

But seen another way: Hookers are, in my mind, the epitome of suspects of spying… I suppose a third of the world is driven by pillow discussions, whether actual spying, just influence, mere affinity, or rape accusations to get rid of a political person.

nonameiguess 5y ago
This is the plot of the first season of House of Cards and how Rachel Brosnahan got her first major television role before being cast as Mrs. Maisel.
hoseja 5y ago
Do you remember that recent HN post from high-profile escort? She built detailed dossiers on the johns as a matter of course, supposedly for screening.

mach1ne 5y ago

The CIA has at least tried this in the modern times with 99.9% probability. They try everything, and this is a low-risk high-gain setup.

VictorPath 5y ago

Certainly this happens. Among other things it is useful for blackmail - "we will reveal to your wife etc. that you slept with a woman/prostitute". Spy agencies call it a "honey trap". Eleven years ago, someone could be discharged from the US military if they were found to be homosexual. Due to things like this, it was popular to target homosexuals in the military. They were already made to conceal part of their life to keep their job, now they just add one more thing to that. A debriefing of a double agent revealed that the British turned a high level male target by putting him together with an underage boy during the target's visit to Lebanon in the 1980's. The British had the Lebanese police barge in during the tryst and arrest the target. The offer was then made - work for us or go to a Lebanese prison and have it revealed at home you are a homosexual pedophile. The target was turned. The Stasi had an unusual spin on this - usually males are targeted, but due to World War II, West Germany had a lack of men who had been born in the 1920s, and a lot of unmarried women of that age. So "Romeo" agents targeted secretaries working at high level offices, and this operation was a successful one. Most spying is not James Bond level exciting - 45% of it is keeping up with technological innovation, 45% of it is getting positive press for your country worldwide, and negative press for rivals. Or maybe those percentages are juggled one way or another. The other 10% is honey traps, dead drops, wet work, ensuring Patrice Lumumba is shot and things like that.