'Honey traps' target Russian dissidents

[Jeffersons Ghost]

'Honey traps' target Russian dissidents

By Richard Galpin BBC News, Moscow

A Russian opposition activist who was a victim of a sophisticated "honey trap" operation in Moscow has told the BBC there are more videos ready to be posted on the internet to discredit other government critics.

Ilya Yashin, of the group Solidarity, is one of five opposition figures to have appeared in videos posted on Russian websites after being secretly filmed having sex with a woman who had lured them back to an apartment rigged with cameras. The videos started to be posted on the internet at the end of March.

"The scale of the operation is stunning. It is a real special operation…. it looks like hundreds of thousands of US dollars were spent on it," Mr Yashin said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/europe/10203840.stm

[proteus_lives]

1. One of the oldest plays in the spybook.

They were probably do the same thing in Babylon or Rome.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

2. It's probably better with video evidence though....

Do you think they used "scribes" in ancient times?