Interview · moment 3 of 14
Sexual Blackmail Operations and the CIA's 'Love Traps'
from Emergency Epstein Podcast w/ Whitney Webb
3 min
Guest
Whitney explains the history of intelligence-agency sexual blackmail operations, citing the CIA's Cold War-era 'love trap' apartments used to compromise foreign diplomats, and how such tactics are used globally.
- Tim mentions Nick Bryant and his book The Franklin Scandal about sexual blackmail operations.
- Sexual blackmail operations by intelligence agencies are kept secret and information about them surfaces slowly if at all.
- Using underage children in sexual blackmail operations cannot be justified as being in the interest of national security.
- The CIA's 'love traps' were sexual blackmail operations that leaked during the Church Committee, involving bugged apartments and two-way mirrors.
- Intelligence agencies worldwide use sexual blackmail extensively, from South Korea to Israel's Mossad.
- Sexual blackmail is expensive but widely used to gain leverage over political players by compromising them.