[jerome]

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/20...p?page=0,1

He announced to his minders at the paper that he had met a young woman while visiting tourist attractions in London and that they were planning a romantic weekend in Rome.

The newspaper felt it had no right to prevent Vanunu from leaving. It was a huge mistake: Soon after arriving in Rome with his lady friend, Vanunu was seized by Mossad officers, forcibly drugged, and smuggled out of Italy by ship to Israel, where he was eventually put on trial for treason.

[Therapsid]

(10-23-2012 01:38 PM)jerome Wrote:  

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/20...p?page=0,1

He announced to his minders at the paper that he had met a young woman while visiting tourist attractions in London and that they were planning a romantic weekend in Rome.

The newspaper felt it had no right to prevent Vanunu from leaving. It was a huge mistake: Soon after arriving in Rome with his lady friend, Vanunu was seized by Mossad officers, forcibly drugged, and smuggled out of Italy by ship to Israel, where he was eventually put on trial for treason.

This is an amazing story. Vanunu spent 18 years in prison and has been arrested and sent to serve shorter sentences multiple times since then. He's banned from using the Web, phones, contacting non-Israeli's, and from leaving Israel.

When I think about this honey trap it reminds me of Spielberg's movie "Munich". In the film, the Mossad agents are played by the honey trap and one of them is killed instead of the other way around as in the Vanunu case. But they knock her off in revenge in the end.