From the New York Post: China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a “sex warfare” operation aimed at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.
Industry insiders told The Times of London that they have been approached by would-be honeypots — some of whom have even managed to ensnare their targets by marrying them and having children.
Chinese and Russian agents are also using social media, startup competitions and venture capital investments to infiltrate the heart of America’s tech industry, the report said.
“I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” James Mulvenon, chief intelligence officer at risk-assessment firm Pamir Consulting, told The Times.
“It really seems to have ramped up recently.”
The report shares details of one case where a “beautiful” Russian woman working at a US-based aerospace company met an American colleague whom she eventually married. She worked her way up through multiple companies, with the ultimate goal of getting to the heights of the military-space innovation community – all while her American husband was totally clueless to the scheme.
A former US counterintelligence official who now works in Silicon Valley said the tactic happens more than people realize. He warned that the women show up, marry a target, have kids with a target, all while conducting a lifelong ‘collection operation.’
Mulvenon, who is a counterespionage expert, said just last week in Virginia, security turned away two attractive Chinese women who tried to attend a business conference on China investment risks.
Mulvenon warned that Americans are especially vulnerable to the seduction tactics used by ‘foreign honeypots’ “because we, by statute and culture, do not do that.”
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