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Sexpionage

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History, Education, News

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2009

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Since biblical times, spies and intelligence services have used sexual entrapment and emotional blackmail to recruit agents and gather secret information. International Spy Museum advisory board member and espionage author H. Keith Melton discusses the means, methods, and effectiveness of “sexpionage,” and elaborates on specific examples, such as the Russian honeytrap and the East German Romeo agent.

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0:07.0

Hello and welcome to SpyCast from the Secret Files of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

0:21.0

I'm Peter Ernest, the Executive Director of the Museum. I served for some 36 years in the

0:26.6

Central Intelligence Agency largely as what is called an operations officer or a case officer.

0:32.6

Every month will be bringing you interesting talks with visitors,

0:36.2

with authors, with others who have something to do with the world of intelligence

0:40.9

and espionage. Today is Keith Milton.

0:45.0

Keith is a member of the advisory board of the museum,

0:50.0

has been a long time supporter of the museum and has been our expert advisor in terms of so much of the trade craft items,

0:59.6

that is the tools of the trade that we have here. He is known as a historian and

1:04.4

specialist specifically in clandestine devices and equipment. He wrote one of

1:10.3

our most popular books, The Ultimate Spy, still in print, and he's currently the

1:15.3

Tradecraft Historian with the U.S. Government's Interagency Training Center, which I think is a

1:22.4

real contribution to the government, and I'm glad to hear that he is there.

1:26.0

Keith is here today to do a program at the museum, which is called Sex Bionage.

1:35.0

Keith did a version of this program,

1:39.0

point one, if you will, some four years ago.

1:42.0

It was sold out then and it sold out this evening. So Keith I'd

1:46.0

like to if we could today just focus on that program a bit. Sex Bionage obviously can cover many things.

1:55.0

One of the things that you mentioned in some of our literature on the subject is the use of honey traps.

2:01.0

And I wonder if we could just take off from there perhaps and

2:05.0

work into the subject you'll be presenting this evening.

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