What's a Honey Trap? The spy tactic that helped topple Jensen Huang
NPR's Frank Langfitt explains the honey trap — a spy tactic of using romance to extract intelligence — after the New York Times reported that Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang resigned over an affair with Alice Huang, a client whom US intelligence identified as a Chinese spy; NPR has not confirmed the reporting. The piece traces the tactic's history, from Christine Fang's relationship with Representative Eric Swalwell to the FBI's Katrina Leung case, and cites officials who say China's Ministry of State Security routinely uses honey traps.
