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CNN: Lovers and spies: How foreign agents have long used ‘honey traps’ to steal secrets

"...In one particularly lurid example that lasted from the 1960s to 1980s, a male Peking opera singer convinced Beijing-based French diplomat Bernard Boursicot he was a woman, and a clandestine romance ensued....The singer, Shi Pei Pu, managed to keep up the deception for nearly two decades, even claiming to have had Boursicot’s son – a young boy who, in reality, belonged to China’s Uyghur minority and had been sold by his poverty-stricken mother..."

https://lite.cnn.com/2026/11/13/world/honey-trap-spies-jensen-huang-nvidia-intl-hnk