CIA Honey Traps: How Governments Turn Good Men Into Traitors
EverydaySpy Podcast
Andrew Bustamante
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Even if you have like the perfect sort of background story, you still need to be super comfortable |
| 0:06.8 | with the lie, you know, and to, you know, if someone comes you on the street, what's your name, |
| 0:12.0 | you know, your background, you need to be super comfortable with lying. So how are you able to |
| 0:17.3 | achieve that? If you remember, we were talking earlier about how they recruit for different |
| 0:21.7 | jobs and one of the personality profiles that they look for in a field operator, they're looking |
| 0:26.8 | for something called moral flexibility. And moral flexibility means exactly what it sounds like. It |
| 0:32.8 | means that you have a set of morals that you believe to be true, but you're flexible, right? Maybe you don't use |
| 0:40.9 | one today. Maybe you use it tomorrow. And there are many, many people, if you don't know this, |
| 0:47.2 | I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this. There are many, many people who are very good naturally |
| 0:50.9 | at lying. And they are morally flexible by nature. |
| 0:55.4 | That's just their psychology. |
| 0:57.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:57.4 | Right? |
| 0:57.8 | It's not that they're cheating spouses. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | They just sometimes want to have sex with a different person. |
| 1:04.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.0 | That doesn't, I mean, it's very difficult for somebody who's black and white to understand |
| 1:08.7 | this because people who think very black and white are thinking in absolute terms right you have to be loyal to this and you have to be loyal to |
| 1:16.7 | that and you have to be committed and and there are lots of people out there who are able to have |
| 1:22.6 | a commitment but then they're also flexible they're able to say I would never hurt a person, but as soon as somebody threatens their |
| 1:30.0 | child, they will hurt that person. |
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