Kim Hjelmgaard

military being duped.

This mostly comes to us through court cases and prosecutions.

My overall sense is that the U.S.

government is well aware of these risks and kind of consistently communicates them to the 18 different intelligence agencies that exist across the space.

It's kind of funny.

I noticed that on Valentine's Day, that's just come past, the U.S.

Army's counterintelligence unit actually published a social media post about this topic.

And it kind of essentially said, you know, without putting too fine a point in the matter, that

If you're a five and the person that you're interested in is a 10, you may want to reflect seriously on that.

So a lot of the kind of the counterintelligence training that's given to, you know, the troops, the officers, the defense contractors, a lot of it is kind of like, don't be naive, don't be adult, in short.

What's very difficult, actually, it took us a couple of months to find and vet examples for this story, generally speaking.

Honey traps are classified, so they never hit the news.

And, you know, the amount of detail that has been declassified is fairly sparse.

But nevertheless, we persevere.

We found some.

I will say, as I mentioned at the top, that what we hear about is typically is the failures, not the successes.

And most of the failures we do hear about are

come about through prosecutions and court cases and the U.S.

Justice Department getting involved.

Nevertheless, for this story, we have managed to dig up some other examples that have never hit the news.