Malin Abeyatunge

The Island of May 1 reproduced a very interesting letter titled ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Russian honeytrap: Seduced by the oldest trick in the bookƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢ by Dominic Sandbrook, published in The Telegraph Group, London. It brings out interesting historical events in the world of espionage, political alliances where sex working girls ( a refined term for prostitutes) used to obtain secret information, influence politicians, VIPs etc.

He/she quoting the Mata Hari case wrote, ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Perhaps unsurprisingly, historyƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s most famous Honey Trap agent operated in France; the files now suggest, however, that Mata Hari, the Dutch courtesan executed in 1917 for passing French military secrets to her German lover, was a scapegoat rather than a spy. “Harlot, yes, but traitor, never,” she is supposed to have said when facing the firing squad.ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢

The famous Profumo Affair is another case in point. The Profumo Affair was a 1963 British political scandal named after John Profumo, Secretary of State for War. His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Russian spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold MacmillanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s government. Macmillan himself resigned a few months later due to ill health (as Wikipedia reports).

WhatƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s relevant to this Honey Trap girls is a comment made by Dallas Alahapperuma about a week before the elections, in The Island,ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ something like that LTTE has made some attempts to influence ministers, MPs by luring them to five star hotels to meet some foreign sex working girls (Honey Traps) and that he will give further details after the general election. Now the election is over, It will be interesting for the public to know further details of his comments. This gives light to the extent why Western politicians, VIPS, men in UNO agencies, INGOs and NGOs having a ball with the LTTE hierarchy in the Wanni and supporting the LTTE terrorist outfit. The readers will know very well who they are. They preferred to go to the Wanni and dine with Prabhakaran than meeting the ruling politicos in the South.

I wonƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t be surprised if LTTE had used in the past and continued to use Honey Traps to achieve their ends.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Suffice it to mention here that there was an Email going around in the public domain (which I also got from some unknown person) in June 2009ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  titledƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”How FEMALE LTTE TIGERS earn their STRIPPING ability and “STRIPES”ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢, showing four young beautiful Tamil girls posing fully nudeƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ for a white-skinned photographer. The rest is assured of the intentions of this reporter/photographer.

No wonder western politicians, VIPs in INGOs, NGOs and reps of other world agencies loved the wine, women and aphrodisiac seafood in the Wanni, who were waiting to visit Wanni even at a drop of a hat. This tells a bigger story. We are aware of the fact that the LTTE has managed to lure many officers in the Army, Air Force and the Police force to spy for them, to work for them for money. Most probably LTTE would have used foreign women in five star hotels to lure these traitors.

So Mr. Dallas Alahapperuma, the public is curiously awaiting details you promised to the effect that the LTTE attempted to lure some ministers and MPs to five-star hotels to meet some foreign sex working girls.