When the Soviet Union established hotels and tourism companies under Stalin, waiters, drivers, chefs and maids were working for the United Nations. K. V. D.
A secret police agency later known as K. G. B.
In addition, the prostitutes were sent to trap and extort visiting foreign politicians and businessmen.
Since then, the Russian Hotel Intourist has been sold, including the former flagship hotel of the travel company, near the Kremlin.
The hotel is luxuriously renovated with spa and special security facilities. Carlton, five years old
The star Temple of luxury living, elevated itself to an unforgettable resort in the \"city center.
\"But according to an unconfirmed and highly defamatory memo prepared by a former British intelligence officer for a political and corporate research company in Washington, the Ritz Hotel is still including Donald J.
Trump could be a victim of Russian \"komromat\" art, a collection of compromise materials as a source of leverage.
Last week, President Obama and the president submitted a summary of the results of the previous spy investigation.
Trump condemned the allegations as \"fake news\" at a news conference on Wednesday \".
A spokeswoman for the Russian foreign ministry said the allegations were \"worrying \".
Nonsense \"and\" outrageous nonsense.
A hotel spokesman declined to discuss the matter.
Irina Zaitseva said: \"According to the standards of our company to protect the privacy of our guests, we will not talk about any individuals or groups that we may do business, \"The hotel\'s marketing and communication manager said in an email.
No matter what happened to Mr.
When Trump visited Moscow in 2013 for Miss Universe, Russia had a long and good hotel suite
Use komromat to discredit the Kremlin\'s enemies and rely on the records of its potential friends.
For decades, hotels around the former Soviet Union visited by foreigners have been equipped with eavesdropping equipment and video cameras. G. B.
A remains can still be seen in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, the former Soviet republic, where the new Finnish owner of the former Intourist hotel established a museum, demonstrate monitoring and other techniques used to monitor and extort foreign guests.
Peep Ehasalu, who helped build the museum, said 60 of the hotel\'s 423 rooms were bugged and kept for \"interesting people\" such as foreign businessmen.
Guests considered vulnerable to extortion are placed in several rooms with holes in the wall through which special cameras can photograph flirting with prostitutes.
All the prostitutes, sir.
Ehasalu says he works for the UK. G. B.
Removed freelancers who did not get official approval.
Most of the guests at the time were from Finland, which had an unusual close and inclusive relationship with Moscow, but Soviet leaders were always worried that it might tilt towards the West.
To stop this, K. G. B.
Finnish decision makers traveling to Estonia.
\"If a politician or businessman knowsG. B.
This person is easy to control and can post his embarrassing photos or send them to his wife . \"
Ehasalu said in a telephone interview.
The merchants who fell into the trap, he said, \"all went home and they said that life in the Soviet Union was good and Finland should do more business with the Soviet Union.
\"The early victim of komromat was Joseph Althorpe, an influential US newspaper columnist who fell into a position by K during his 1957 visit to Moscow. G. B.
At his hotel, he filmed his encounter with a young Russian.
Two K in his own account. G. B.
Shortly after he had sex, the police rushed into his room.
Alsop said he was told there were pictures of the \"Bill\" and that he needed \"help them a little\" if they were going to help me \".
He informed the US embassy and left the Soviet Union in a hurry.
Unlike Estonia, Russia has hardly given up the Soviet Union. era methods. The F. S. B.
The successor of K. G. B.
Lost a lot of influence in early 1990, but since Vladimir V.
Putin came to power 16 years ago.
Before becoming president
Putin played a prominent role in a particularly successful kompromat operation.
As the head of F. S. B.
In 1997, he helped to destroy the career of Russian attorney general Yuri Skuratov, winning the trust of President Boris Yeltsin.
After starting an investigation into Kremlin corruption, prosecutors broadcast a video on state television showing a man who looked like him and two young women lying in bed, which made him veryMr.
Putin confirmed in public that the man in the video is widely regarded by F. S. B.
It\'s the attorney general. Mr.
Skuratov resigned, corruption investigation is over, a grateful Sir
Mr. Yeltsin
Prime Minister Putin has cleared the way for his president.
Unlike reports of completely fabricated crime or simple embarrassing behavior, komromat is often true, although photos and videos are sometimes modified to exacerbate embarrassment.
This makes it a particularly blunt, dangerous weapon that can easily backfire.
Mark Galleotti, an expert on Russian security services at the Prague Institute of International Relations, said that the unverified strategy proposed by British spies was \"very risky\" and that Russian extortion of Putin was absurd. Trump.
\"If Russians release such videos, they will declare war on Trump,\" he said . \".
\"This is definitely not what Putin wants to do. ”For Mr.
Russian opposition Vladimir Putin\'s opponents, including secret sex videos, have become a serious problem.
The release of embarrassing materials has had a devastating impact on the families and careers of some activists, leaving scars that have lasted for many years.
But the release of this material can also be a badge of honor, indicating that the target did not yield to blackmail. Ilya V.
Yassin, a young activist and ally of the killed opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, is one of the targets of the \"honey trap\" operation, which involves a woman who uses the nickname Mumu, at least three journalists and members of the Russian opposition have been tempted.
According to him, she has access to a cable-monitored apartment with cocaine and sex toys stored in it.
Yasin talked about his experience in an interview. Mr.
At the age of 25, unmarried Yasin said mu had contacted him online.
They dated for weeks.
One night she called him and asked him to come over for a \"surprise\" and the result was that the second woman wanted to attend a party.
\"What surprised me when I came over was how the two girls basically sexually assaulted me when I walked into the door,\" Mr. Yashin said.
He said he did not resist.
\"Later, I became more skeptical when one of them took out a large bag of sex toys.
Katya took the whip and started pumping me.
I told her to put it away with all the other toys.
Soon the women also produced cocaine. Mr.
Yasin said he suspected it was a trap, \"tell the girls I need to go and dress.
\"The video of that encounter has never been made public; Mr.
It\'s probably because he wasn\'t photographed with sex toys and cocaine, Yassin said.
Other videos taken in the same apartment were released on 2010.
This strategy is not always successful.
\"Some people don\'t buy it at all . \"Yashin said.
Mu invited Dmitry Oreshkin, a political analyst, to her apartment. Instead, Mr.
Mr. Yassin said.
Oreshkin invited her to his house, \"where his wife greeted her.