CIA LOVE TRAPS LURED DIPLOMATS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100250052-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: February 5, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ByJackAnderson
and Les 'Whitten
For years, the Central Intelli-
gence Agency operated love
traps in New York City and San
Francisco, where foreign diplo-
mats were lured by prostitutes
in the pay of the CIA.
Through hidden one-way mir-
rors, CIA agents filmed the sex-
ual adventures and later tried
to blackmail the victims into be-
coming informants.
The stranger-than-fiction
story of the blackmail operation
is one of the secrets which the
CIA frantically is trying to hide
from congressional investiga-
tors. But we have uncovered the
details and will be happy to fur-
nish Congress with the evi-
dence.
Significantly, the CIA used
the old Bureau of Narcotics as a
over for the bizarre sex setup. In
both cities, narcotics agents
rented and maintained adjoin-
Us efficiency apartments. It
was their responsibility to make
sure the blackmail apartment
had a lived-in look and was kept
stocked with food and liquor, so
the victims wouldn't become
suspicious.
in San Francisco, the black.
mail apartment was opened in
the late 1950s and closed about
1965. It was equipped only with
bugging devices, not observa-
tion mirrors. The New York op-
eration lasted from about 1960
to 1966.
On the East Coast, the dual ef-
ficiency apartments were lo-
cated on the sixth floor of a
door for the peep shows in the Originally es
adjoining apartment ' vival training c
variety of sexual skills were has been Join
trap Westerners into spying for bigwigs. Mot
Footnote: The narcs used the Command In m
need them: They would be ad- pointed out, h
vised to stay away on certain lodge guests p
ments was $160 each. The rent, did not pay fo
out of a special checking ac-Icious fishing I
York narcotics office. Our asso-I Goose Bay, Ca
CIA spokesman who said the batrosses:' In
this." "strategic offe
The'agents merely would swing tab, of course,
rugged Canadi* backcountryl were used to sh
as picked up by
ablished as scr-
imps, the lodges
everaf years as
Ong the guests
Chiefs of Staff
orge Brown.
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dle the visiting
et 14,200 was
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intenance costs.
to spokesman
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lures and clean their fish, while it will not reopen the lodges
nd Hill, another the shots as I see them."
high-rise apartment building in
Greenwich Village. On the wall
of the blackmail apartment was
hung a large painting of two
ships. But the painting was actu-
ally a one-way mirror.
On the other side of the wall,
CIA agents could watch and film
the 'action through the see-
through painting. The painting
was strategically placed so that
it gave the CIA observers a full
view of the sofa, which opened
into a bed.-A Japanese screen,
implanted with microphones,
provided the sound for the CIA's
blackmail movies.
On the other side of the wall,,
vacationing milita*y brass. vately owned. b
into all such ?.
Able John'.
llama (D-NJ.).
pick up two' ,
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on plus pay for
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