{"id":8142,"date":"2022-11-19T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T03:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8142"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:46:47","slug":"honey-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/honey-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Honey Trap:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The practice of \u2018honey trapping\u2019 refers to the use of romantic or sexual relationships to get information out of a target.<\/li>\n<li>The information can be used for monetary advancement or to achieve political ends, such as in the case of state espionage.<\/li>\n<li>Sometimes, honey traps are also laid for extortion or blackmail purposes.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term first entered the English language through\u00a0Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel by John le Carr\u00e9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Famous Incidents:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the most famous cases of honey trapping is the Mata Hari case from World War I.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In India, K V Unnikrishnan, a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) officer was allegedly honey trapped in the 1980s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/mea-staffer-honey-trapped-spying-explained-8276517\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honey Trapping refers to the use of romantic or sexual relationships to get information out of a target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}