Let us not underestimate the damage that she has caused.Even "low level" officers by virtue of their presence in a foreign mission have access,legitimate or not,to v.sensitive info.At diplomatic soirees,once the booze flows tongues wag,even when within the restricted confines of in-house gatherings.The amount of info that one can pick up by merely "being there" cannot be underestimated or ridiculed.In addition,she could've very easily bugged the premises and restricted areas of the mission where supposedly secure meetings/communications are conducted.She would've known the pattern of in-house "sweeps" for bugs,etc.By revealing the pattern of behaviour of her colleagues,it would be easier for the enemy to monitor thir movements and thus enabke them to discover local contacts passing on info to key officers of the mission,especially those in the intel field.Every scrap of info,gossip,etc. is of value and "HUMINT" is the best form of intel,far superior to Elint/Sigint,as it gives insigt into the minds of people at the helm of affairs.
By revealing the human behavioural chacteristics of her fellow colleagues,who had a weakness for women,or men even (!),honey-traps and other devices could've been used to compromise other staffers.Simple stealing of letterheads,seals,visa stamps,handing over passports,etc.,could be of immense use to the enemy in forging documents to be used in sending over agents/terrorists into India.I remember some time ago,a restricted tel. directory used in the MOD reportedly had a "buyers" pricetag of 1 lakh!
In recent years,there has been an outpouring of scandal and airing of filthy linen in our intel setups,R&AW,IB,MI,etc.We now have the MEA to add to the list.One of the most repetitive features in these revalations has been the personal and subjective reasons for problems rather than there being objective reasons fopr the same.In the administration and functioning of these outfits,objectivity and integrity seem to have been dumped into the waste paper basket,with greed and rampant self0interests replacing the country's interests first.Books and articles written by ex-spooks have revealed a sad shabby state of affairs in what should be the most important of all instiututions in the country,that of intelligence and the foreign service,which are on the frontline in defending the country's interests.In the manner in which Pak has been deliberately obfuscating over the dastardly attacks of 26/11,perhaps this traitor has had a role to play in the aftermath of the event and the moves on the diplomatic chessboard in the game being played between both countries.Pak by her treachery,could've been forewarned of India's stand on the issue just as was Lanka forewarned of India's role in it affairs when we had another traitor in our midst,a senior R&AW operative who was a CIA double agentwho fell victim to the "honey trap".
...and on the subject of "honeytraps",just enjoy these delicious "titbits" from the land of its origin,Russia!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... -bait.html
Amateur model known as 'Katya' revealed as Russian honeytrap bait
Ekaterina Gerasimova has piercing blue eyes, an innocent girl-next-door face, and likes to do a little amateur modelling.
EXcerpt:
But if her "victims" are to be believed, she is the Kremlin's most effective secret agent and a latter-day Mata Hari.
Her mission, it is claimed, is to discredit prominent Kremlin critics by luring them into compromising situations using vintage KGB honey trap techniques.
Offering her own body, sex, and drugs from cocaine to marijuana as an inducement, "Katya" as she is usually known has tried and often succeeded in bedding at least half a dozen high-profile Kremlin critics.
The reputational damage she has inflicted has varied from serious to negligible depending on her victim's marital status and response.
Her latest victim was Viktor Shenderovich, a journalist and the script writer on Russia's now defunct version of the Spitting Image TV satire.
Mr Shenderovich, who is married and has a daughter, admits that he slept with Ms Gerasimova but claims he was set up by the Kremlin.
Though he has tried to laugh the incident off, his credibility as an authoritative critic of Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, appears to have been at least partly dented by the sting and his marriage is now reportedly in trouble.
The editor of Russian Newsweek magazine also fell under Ms Gerasimova's spell and was filmed in his underpants chopping up what looked like cocaine after having sex with her.
A clutch of anti-Kremlin opposition figures and activists including a man who looked like the leader of the radical National Bolshevik Party have also been caught in flagrante delicto with the twentysomething model.
But unlike Soviet times when the secret service used compromising material or 'compromat' as it was known to blackmail, Ms Gerasimova's exploits have been widely publicised in grainy and heavily edited videos on the internet
. News Media especially TV channels have started blabbering any non-sense in order to get the attention of the viewers.
