China and Russia are sending attractive women to seduce tech workers — even marrying and having children with their targets. ‘It’s the Wild West out there,’ says insider

James Mulvenon, the chief intelligence officer of Pamir Consulting, which provides risk assessments for American companies investing in China, said he was one of the many men recently targeted by foreign seductresses hoping to gain access to US tech secrets. “I’m getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman,” said Mulvenon. “It really seems to have ramped up recently.”

He added: “It is a phenomenon. And I will tell you: it is weird.”

Mulvenon, who has investigated espionage in the US for 30 years, said the honeytrap tactic was “a real vulnerability” for the US “because we, by statute and by culture, do not do that. So they have an asymmetric advantage when it comes to sex warfare”.

James Mulvenon says he has been targeted by suspected foreign agents

Sex warfare is just one way American tech workers are being played, according to five counterintelligence experts who spoke to The Times. China is also hosting competitions for startups on US soil to steal sensitive business plans, and even trying to sabotage American tech companies, sources said. In February, the House committee on homeland security warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has conducted more than 60 cases of espionage in the US over the past four years — though a former counterintelligence source fears this “only scratches the surface”.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/silicon-valley-spy-china-russia-2v03676kl

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