Daily Beast: Michael Weiss’s chillingly prescient piece on KGB “honey-traps.”

Daily Beast: Michael Weiss’s chillingly prescient piece on KGB “honey-traps.”

MICHAEL WEISS 07.29.16 9:13 PM ET   “Eh bien, Dejean, on couche.” With that contemptuous locution, which one might translate very roughly as, “Well, De Jean, one gets laid,” with perhaps the added thought that having made one’s bed, one must lie in it, Charles De Gaulle dismissed his old friend Maurice Dejean from diplomatic service […]

NYT: Russia’s Sexual Blackmail Didn’t Die With the Soviets

NYT: Russia’s Sexual Blackmail Didn’t Die With the Soviets

By ANDREW HIGGINS and ANDREW E. KRAMER JAN. 11, 2017 When the Soviet Union set up the Intourist hotel and travel company under Stalin, the bellboys, drivers, cooks and maids all worked for the N.K.V.D., the secret police agency later known as the K.G.B. Also on the payroll were the prostitutes deployed to entrap and blackmail visiting foreign politicians […]