Posted on 12/05/2010 5:31:53 PM PST by Pan_Yan
A womanising MP was targeted by a suspected Russian spy in a Moscow ‘honeytrap’ sting, Whitehall sources believe.
Liberal Democrat Mike Hancock, 64, was introduced to 25-year-old Katia Zatuliveter on one of his regular visits to the Eastern Bloc superpower.
He agreed to give a job and parliamentary pass to the blonde suspected agent – handing her at least three years’ access to official documents on defence policy.
Mr Hancock has also asked dozens of questions about nuclear weapons and other hugely sensitive defence topics to the point where responses by ministers were vetted by the security services.
Among them, he asked for the locations of berths for submarines, a request to publish an inventory of the country’s nuclear arsenal and when the next design review of the Trident warhead will take place.
Now, following the intervention of MI5, his glamorous aide is facing deportation on the grounds that her suspected espionage is not ‘conducive to national security’.
Yesterday it emerged that:
The suspected spy’s father and sister are both recruiting Russian students to come to Britain.
She almost won a post with a large UK defence organisation until British security officials warned the firm off.
MPs expressed alarm that she had got her job in the first place and appeared to have sidestepped vetting checks.
Security sources fear at least 20 similar spies could be working in Britain under false identities. The case mirrors that of 28-year-old Russian socialite Anna Chapman, who was arrested by the FBI in the summer and sent back to Russia. She had married a Briton and lived in London before moving to New York.
Whitehall officials insisted last night there was no threat to national security, but conceded that Miss Zatuliveter had access to information which is not available to the public.
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I would like to know who honeytrapped Lindsey Graham into being a traitor to Republicans.
woof woof!
Guilty!!!
Whatever happened to execution of spies?
What’s baffling is that the British security services warned a defense contractor not to hire her, but left her as aid to an MP on the Armed Services Committee, with access to a broad range of secret information.
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From the article:
“Mr Hancock, MP for Portsmouth South, said: ‘I have no reason to believe she did anything but act honourably during the time she was working for me.
‘She genuinely believes, and I back her 100 per cent, that she has nothing to hide and has done nothing wrong. She is not a Russian spy.’
Unbelieveable: The liberals (here, no less than in the UK) have no idea. No concept that the Soviets/socialists/communists are actually an enemy to their country.
To the reverse, they fervently live, breathe, and revel their “religion” that socialism is the salvation and the answer, and that (white) Western Christian capitalism IS the enemy.
(What’s “funny” is that the oldest Communist espionage trick from the 1930’s textbook still works in the 2010’s. Recruit the socialists.
Recruit using sex as abribe and reward and a threat.
Recruit the intelligensi.
Recruit the upper class.
Recruit the (already) rich and elite.
Recruit the homosexuals.)
Ick indeed! I would not reveal to her the combination to the locker that holds my old smelly gym clothes. YUCK!
Eww. Look at them nostril hairs. And that huge flap of flab under his chin. And those unkempt eyebrows.
Every time I went into the Soviet/Chicom Bloc in the old days, I hoped some sultry Mata Hari would target me in a “honeytrap” sting, but alas....
guilty — she looks anorexic as heck!
If you look at the MP's "bio" on the Daily Mail website (they love this stuff) he has spent 30 years in public office working on 'running up his score' without much concern for quality.
The ugly little creep has gravy stains ... or some kinda stains ... on his tie.
LOL....You probably don’t want to know what kind of STAINS those are!
I suspect it isn’t ‘honey’ that has Pansey Graham enthralled.
in real life size they are microscopic and not viable
....who honey trapped Lindsey Graham....?
I will bet it wasnt a blonde female.
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