Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk Sexual blackmail 0 27378 235459 233775 2022-01-21T18:47:50Z Robin 120 Trim deprecated hard lists - should be replaced with soft generated lists wikitext text/x-wiki {{concept |wikipedia= |image=Sexual blackmail.jpg |image_width=390px |constitutes=blackmail, statecraft, sociopathy |description=A long established tactic used to exert covert control over specific individuals. }} '''Sexual blackmail''' is a standard element of [[statecraft]] and [[organised crime]]. Individuals over which [[deep states]] seek control, are either induced to voluntarily perform proscribed sexual acts, or rendered insensible through use of [[drugs]] and then framed. [[Scopolamine]] or substances similar in effect might be used. Once compromising recordings have been made, they are used to [[blackmail]] people, facilitating the covert subversion of public organisations by [[deep state operatives]].<ref>https://www.unwelcomeguests.net/748</ref> ==Official narrative== There is little discussion of sexual blackmail in the {{ccm}}. On the (presumably relatively rare) occasions when sexually compromising material is released featuring public figures, its source tends to go undiscussed, as does the reason for its release. Connections to similar cases are rarely made and the topic of sexual blackmail is rarely if ever placed in context. Coverage instead remains firmly on the smaller picture, i.e. speculations about individuals' sexual proclivities. Revealingly, evidence which in other contexts might be considered actionable is often not deemed sufficient for prosecution, allowing for the story to be quickly dropped once it has had its desired effect. {{SMWQ |align=right |text=Investigating the pornography habits or sexual proclivities of a North Korean general to blackmail him into committing espionage might be justifiable. Doing the same thing to foreign religious figures, or innocent Americans is repugnant, if not illegal. |subjects= |image= |image_width= |format= |source_name=Brennan Center for Justice |source_URL=https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/military-foreign-and-domestic-intelligence-are-not-same |authors=Michael German |date=December 11, 2014 }} ==Research== [[image:CIA love traps.png|thumb|The CIA had a blackmail operation in New York using both male and female prostitutes.]] In 1953 the [[CIA]] started [[Operation Midnight Climax]], which covertly filmed unwitting people's sexual encounters with [[prostitutes]], as part of its research into the effects of drugs such as [[LSD]], and into clandestine recording technology. ==Modus operandi== The first step in a sexual blackmail operation is to choose the target. These tend to be people with important decision making roles, predominantly male. Surveillance can reveal their sexual orientation, which is factored in when choosing suitable bait. ===Sexual sting operations=== {{FA|Sexual sting operation}} [[image:Little St. James.jpg|650px|right|thumbnail|[[Jeffrey Epstein]]s Little St. James, a 72-acre private island in the US Virgin Islands, dubbed "Pedophile Island" and "Orgy Island" by locals, according to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. The rooms and places have most certainly been wired, with the police / FBI investigation being blind on that aspect and/or leaving much time for the removal.]] [[Blackmail]] is the use of compromising recordings in obtained in control the subjects through threat of exposure. [[Sibel Edmonds]] alleged in [[2017]] that [[Jan Schakowsky]] had been set up for this type of blackmail, though she says she has not seen evidence that Schakowsky complied.<ref>http://911blogger.com/news/2017-02-18/sibel-edmonds-tells-her-full-story-uncovers-untouchables</ref> This is to be distinguished from the obtaining of a recording in order to expose it, for example to induce a resignation, which is more properly described as a [[sexual sting operation]]. ===Venue=== {{FA|VIPaedophile/Venue}} In he past, effective recording required a prepared room equipped with microphones and hidden cameras to ensure reliable depiction of the sexual acts. UK groups had regular venues to carry out such operations, reportedly including [[Kincora Boys' Home]], [[Elm Guest House]] and [[Dolphin Square]].<ref name=ug720>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/720</ref> US venues are rumored to include Washington's "embassy row" and at least one of [[Jeffrey Epstein]]'s private islands. Technological developments allow for easier gathering of blackmail material. ===Drugs and peer pressure=== [[Spook]]s and [[diplomat]]s should be well aware of this tactic, so drugs such as [[alcohol]], [[cocaine]], [[benzodiazepines]], [[aphrodisiacs]] or [[scopolamine]] may be administered to lower self-control and/or impair memory. Peer pressure from compromised individuals is another vital element, for example, who may induce colleagues to drinking with them at social functions. ===Coordinated subversion=== Where individuals are fully blackmailable, their decisions are controlled by whoever (they believe) holds the evidence of their entrapment. This provides a means whereby they can be induced to set aside personal animosity and coordinate their efforts. Indeed, a public conflict between individuals (and so, groups) can work as a screen for covert collaboration. It stands to reason that this system of subversion is employed all over the world and most heavily in [[western Europe]] and [[north America]] where the [[white male]]<ref>https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/interview-with-lori-handrahan-author-of-epidemic/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20200809000552/https://sanfranciscobookreview.com/interview-with-lori-handrahan-author-of-epidemic/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/KwM29 Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://theglobepost.com/2019/08/29/us-predator-database/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20190901073355/https://theglobepost.com/2019/08/29/us-predator-database/ Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/AYe8k Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/so-many-did-too-little-841340ec5a75 saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20190804101104/https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/so-many-did-too-little-841340ec5a75 Archive.org] saved at [https://archive.is/Trqgs Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20201210155856/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58ea94e61b10e3a416f9f014/t/59d5118f49fc2b719fabe302/1507135892156/Lori+Handrahan.pdf</ref> is shaping the political processes. ===Hierarchy=== Institutions which vest decision making in a few senior individuals (i.e. hierarchies) are particularly vulnerable to subversion by blackmail, since only a few people need be compromised. Where advancement up the hierarchy is accompanied by increased privileges (e.g. a high salary) the compromised individuals and their compromisers have a mutual self interest in their advancement up the hierarchy. ==Evolution== Many different taboos surround sexual activity so, various forms may have been used for blackmail since time immemorial. Methods have evolved along with changes in sexual taboos and recording technology. The In the modern era, recording devices - particularly cameras - have boosted its effectiveness. Copies of these recordings may or may not be given to the victims, and the threat of their exposure may or may not be made explicit. ===Homosexuality=== [[Homosexuality]] used to be taboo and/or illegal in many countries such as UK. This is interesting when combined with the observation that certain institutions (particularly all male boarding [[schools]]) might almost have been designed to promote it. Some commentators{{who}} have commented that various intelligence agencies have had (or still have?) a culture of homosexuality.{{cn}} ([[J. Edgar Hoover]], for example is widely suspected of being a homosexual and of having a 40 year 'marriage' to his deputy [[Clyde Tolson]]<ref name=mail/><ref>http://abcnews.go.com/Health/edgar-hoover-sex-men-homosexual/story?id=14948447</ref>). Spooks are not widely noted for their habitual following of laws, so one explanation for this culture of sexual criminalization might be the desire to use sexually blackmail to rein in members of these organisations. The legalisation of homosexuality rendered obsolete an accumulated stock of recordings of homosexual sex. Later operations instead switched to [[sex with juveniles|"sex" with juveniles]] and/or [[rape]] of children. ===The Badger Game=== [[Eric Berne]] and other psychologists (Greenacre, "The conscience of the psychopath") mention an ancient game where a woman seduces the mark and just in the moment of intercourse, the husband "happens" to walk in for the purpose of blackmail. Berne includes this in the analysis of the (hysterical) game "Let's you and him fight", where a woman sets up a competition between males in an act of covert revenge or sadism. ==Practitioners== [[J. Edgar Hoover]] became notorious for his use of blackmail and a [[2012]] biography claimed he had the largest collection of pornography in history (at the time, illegal), used in part for self-amusement, part for blackmail purposes. Hoover was reported to be "mostly interested in nudes of famous people".<ref name=mail >http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2098423/J-Edgar-Hoover-New-book-exposes-secret-world-FBI-Director.html</ref> The [[FBI]] attempted sexual blackmail of the Rev. Dr. [[Martin Luther King]]. During the 1980s, the [[Franklin child prostitution ring]] was partly exposed. ==Victims== [[image:aa_sun_19760903b_p001-002.jpg|right|580px]] The nature of this tactic makes it hard to assess the number of individuals involved, either as victims or in the business of entrapment. It seems a fair assumption that the majority of those who are entrapped never reveal publicly that they have been subject to clandestine control. Often, only after people death does it emerge that they were being blackmailed. ==Exposure== The late [[Mark Minnie]] coauthored a book about a paedophile network connected the [[South African deep state]]. Many have partially exposed [[Hollywood/VIPaedophile]] over the years, including [[Corey Feldman]], [[Isaac Kappy]] and [[Tracy Twyman]]. === Epstein Affair=== {{FA|Epstein Affair}} The re-arrest in 2019 of notorious sexual blackmailer [[Jeffrey Epstein]] on sex crimes involving minors and his subsequent [[Jeffrey Epstein/Suicide|suiciding]] in a US jail brought the topic of sexual blackmail to the public attention. ==Cultural references== [[Sibel Edmonds]] has been subject to various legal structures intended to limit her public disclosure of information. The tactic of sexual blackmail features prominently in the plot of her [[roman a clef]], ''[[The Lone Gladio]]''. ==See also== [[VIPaedophile]]<br> [[The Pedophocracy]]<br> [[Jimmy Saville]]<br> [[Hollywood/VIPaedophile]]<br> {{SMWDocs}} ==References== {{reflist}} p9ayb4tcomd0z2xzexkdq1a4zlaq3cx