Discussion: Agent, Operative, Plant, Spy? What To Call Mariia Butina

Well, granted, what we think of as nice people don’t use sex as a means of influence or a medium of exchange. But the Russkie intelligence services know it works so they use it. I have to say my own reaction is she’s pretty cold-blooded but my stronger feeling is contempt for the men who let themselves get used. They’re not nice people either. If you confine your social life to other nice people who hang out because they like each other you won’t end up sweating through an interview with the FBI and maybe catching a charge or two or three in the end.

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