This particular public service announcement is pure camp; but isnât âhave reasonably charming intelligence officer of appropriate sex for the target prey on their human weaknessâ actually a fairly common and effective strategy?
The Stasi certainly did that sort of thing; there was the case a little while back about the UK undercover cop who was doing similar things for the purpose of investigating largely-harmless environmentalist groups; and I can only imagine that the failures or the successes antique enough to declassify are the tip of the iceberg, since itâs just such a logical technique.
As any Secret Service agent in a hotel room full of Columbian hookers can tell you, lust makes you really, really, stupid even when you know that you are on the job and potentially being scrutinized.
And, as anyone who has ever had to navigate a gigantic pitiless bureaucracy knows, secretaries are to data access what janitors are to physical access: pretty much the highest âaccessâ/âinstitutional statusâ ratio you can possibly find; and relatively numerous(and thus hard to draw exclusively from seasoned personnel of iron loyalty and long experience) because thereâs a lot of grunt work that needs doing.
Damn! This spy business is so nuanced and tricky. I wouldnât last a weekâŚ
What is that from, it looks fun.
This may be a real problem for people with security clearance. Trouble is, in China they treat every bush and pothole as a state secret and every foreigner as a spy. If a traveler tries to really get to know the locals, itâs impossible to know when theyâll be rounded up.
The most organic conversation of all time!
The Chairmanâs drag name is Honey Pot.
The Interview [movie], itâs a parody that was sent to me.
Oh, I saw that. Just donât remember it. I though that might be a real came. Looks sorta Metal Slug-ish.
Wasnât this a plot point in one of Clancyâs novels?
My Son is a Game Designer, so I get lots of gifs like this, where he gets them I havenât the foggiest.
Yeah and why is Xiao Li a white lady?
OMG!
âThe Interviewâ video game tie-in!!!
And also a running sub-plot on the show The Americans. The secretary in question has gone recently from the one topping everyoneâs dead pools (most likely to be transported out of her apartment in 2 separate suitcases) to a willing accomplice (most likely to be exfiltrated to Russia).
Chinese women are really keen on being pale. Marvel at the face-kini which they use to maintain their pallor at the beach:
I remember seeing that!
But just from a communications perspectiveâitâs like, which one of these characters is Chinese and which is the foreigner?
The red-headed devil?
Interesting that the art style used here is a watered-down manga style (note especially the secretaryâs profile), which style originated in Japan, not China. Evil foreign influence has already triumphed.
