Honeytrap Agents Seduce for State Secrets

America’s moral scruples mean the US doesn’t play this game.

One former official told of a “beautiful” Russian woman who married an American aerospace worker after graduating from a “Russian soft-power school”.

She now moves in crypto and defence-tech circles, while her husband remains “totally oblivious”.

The theft of American trade secrets costs US taxpayers up to $600 billion a year, with China leading the charge.

In one case, Klaus Pflugbeil tried to sell Tesla’s stolen tech blueprints for $15 million to undercover agents in Las Vegas.

Prosecutors said the stolen data could have boosted China’s dominance in electric vehicles.

The China (Shenzhen) Innovation and Entrepreneurship International Competition, held this year in cities from Boston to Tokyo, raised red flags after participants were shadowed by officials and wired with microphones.

When his firm won $50,000, the organisers wired the prize straight to his personal bank account.

Weeks later, federal funding for his firm was frozen.

Seductresses in action

Moscow, meanwhile, is doubling down on its old-school seduction ops.

Russia’s “red-haired temptress” Anna Chapman — once the face of Putin’s 2010 spy ring — is reportedly back under a new alias, Anna Romanova, fronting a Kremlin-linked intelligence museum in Moscow.

Her return to the espionage stage comes after years of boasting that her “sex appeal worked like magic” on male targets.

Another infamous “sex spy”, Aliia Roza, once claimed she was taught “sex techniques” and “how to make men fall in love” at a Russian military academy.

“Sex is a very important part of the relationship,” she said.

“It’s probably 80 per cent where the person only feels like trusting you according to that sex experience.”

In London, two Bulgarian women — Cvetelina Gencheva and Tsvetanka Doncheva — were recently exposed as part of a Russian “honeytrap” ring that spied on Putin’s opponents.

They worked inside a “highly sophisticated” espionage cell run by Orlin Roussev, a former tech worker, who allegedly deployed seduction and surveillance to infiltrate Western networks.

One target, journalist Roman Dobrokhotov, was followed onto a plane, where spies watched him type in his phone PIN.

Police say the group’s honeytrap missions put lives at risk.

China’s espionage tactics also have a familiar face.

Fang Fang, the “honeytrap” who infiltrated US politics between 2011 and 2015, seducing two mayors and cultivating links to rising Democrats, including Rep. Eric Swalwell.

FBI surveillance caught her in sexual encounters with U.S. officials before she fled to China.

Her mission was to charm her way into political circles, raise campaign cash, and funnel influence back to Beijing.