China and Russia are using asymmetric advantage, unleash sex warfare, to seduce U.S. tech execs and steal secrets, according to a new report from the Times of London. The report says 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.
00:00:31.260China and Russia have deployed attractive women to the United States to seduce unwitting Silicon Valley tech executives as part of a sex warfare operation aiming at stealing American technology secrets, according to a report.
00:00:41.560Industry 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.
00:00:53.480Chinese and Russian agents are also using social media startup competitions and venture capital investments to infiltrate the heart of America's tech industry.
00:01:04.220The report said, I'm getting an enormous number of very sophisticated LinkedIn requests from the same type of attractive young Chinese woman.
00:01:10.720James Malvenan, chief intelligence officer at risk management firm, Pamir Consulting, told the Times it really seems to have ramped up recently.
00:01:21.000A former U.S. counterintelligence official who now works for Silicon Valley startups told the Times that he secretly investigated one case of a beautiful Russian woman who worked at a U.S.-based aerospace company,
00:01:31.600where she met an American colleague whom she eventually married, according to the former counterintelligence officer.
00:01:37.840The woman in question attended a modeling academy when she was in her 20s.
00:01:41.940Afterwards, she was enrolled in a Russian soft power school before she fell off the radar for a decade, only to reemerge in the U.S. as an expert in cryptocurrency.
00:01:50.580But she doesn't stay in crypto, the ex-official said.
00:01:53.200She's trying to get into the heights of military space innovation community.
00:02:21.120Some people, it's drugs, alcohol, whatever it is.
00:02:22.900It's no secret that you have these Silicon Valley tech nerds that have maybe never had beautiful women approaching them, and they don't realize that they're a mark.
00:02:33.380Now, as much as it's happening in Silicon Valley with Chinese women and Russian women, if you've ever been to Miami, if you've ever thought that you're just sitting in a bar and two beautiful Russian women are like, hey, what's going on?
00:02:46.560We've heard stories after stories after stories of them putting something in someone's drink, and the next thing you know, something happens.
00:02:53.420Or in Miami, they have something called BBLs.
00:03:11.320They've never had interaction with women.
00:03:13.400And the most gorgeous women you've ever seen from Colombia, from Venezuela, from Russia, from China, all of a sudden, they're like, hola, papi, que paso?
00:03:24.200Here's my cards, whether that's intentional or unintentional.
00:03:26.740And you need to be very careful if you're out there, if you've never been around these types of women.
00:03:30.260And all of a sudden, when you're a celebrity or you have money or you've built this big company and all these incredible-looking women show up and they start asking you, hey, what's going on?
00:03:39.480You need to be very incredulous and very careful with how you operate because a lot of times they're going to honeypot you.
00:03:46.060How do you handle them when they approach you?
00:04:13.360And then between 2011 and 15, she built connections with several political figures, one of them being Eric Swalwell by fundraising and volunteering.
00:04:21.300U.S. intelligence later suspected she was part of a Chinese influence operation to cultivate future political figures in our government.
00:04:29.340And if you think about it, and how many more videos, Matt, how many videos every week do we have to see by our freaking friend from Project Veritas?
00:07:53.660So if I'm running a group and I'm allowed to, like, to do, listen, and the enemies are targeted, we're going to use some very creative methods.
00:08:05.360And trust me, this is probably one of the most least creative ways of doing it.
00:08:10.100This is common sense way that you should use women to do something like this.
00:08:13.640Are you saying that the U.S. intelligence community is?