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French spies are immune to cheating because their wives already know they are having affairs, MI6’s French counterpart has revealed.
The Russians realized that generating blackmail by establishing illicit relations with French spies did not work, according to intelligence agents from the General Directorate of Foreign Security (DGSE).
“Go ahead, my wife already knows,” was the usual response according to an agent in the documentary The Training of Secret Agents, which examined the French spy agency.
It was broadcast on French television channel France 2 on Tuesday night.
Agent ‘Nicolas’, who appeared anonymously on the programme, said that defectors from the Soviet Union spoke of the ‘French paradox’.
He said the phenomenon was that if you tell a Frenchman who has a mistress ‘we caught you red-handed with a 22-year-old girl called Tatyana, work for us or we’ll tell your wife, it didn’t work’, The Telegraph reports.
French spies are immune to entrapment schemes because their wives already know they are having affairs, MI6’s French counterpart has revealed (file photo)
This is because they would normally say “she already knows” or “Go ahead and show her that she will understand.”
It comes after Conservative MP William Wragg resigned from his senior roles in the party and in the House of Commons after revealing he had given away colleagues’ phone numbers after being caught on a gay dating app.
William Wragg resigned as vice-chairman of the 1922 Committee, the secondary Conservative organisation, and as chairman of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC).
The MP for Hazel Grove in Greater Manchester admitted last week that he had revealed his colleagues’ phone numbers to a Grindr contact over fears that intimate images of himself would be leaked.
Scotland Yard has said it is investigating reports of the so-called “honey trap” scam after it was suggested that at least 12 men in political circles – including journalists – received unsolicited messages, raising security concerns.
It came as Wragg came under fire from more Conservative colleagues for his actions, amid some calls for the party to suspend him.
Bernard Emié, 65, France’s spy chief until December last year, says the nation’s secret service is made up of “ordinary people who do extraordinary things using exceptional means.”
Access to the spy agency was granted following recent negative press.
IMP William Wragg admitted passing on MPs’ phone numbers due to blackmail fears after being caught
In one section of the documentary, Emié strongly rejects claims that French spies were unaware of Russia’s upcoming invasion of Ukraine when Putin’s troops lined the border in February 2022.
Britain and the United States had warned that Putin planned to launch his invasion “in the coming days,” but the French said that was not happening. And President Emmanuel Macron was criticized for continuing to talk to the Russian president.
The documentary attacked “Anglo-Saxons” who claimed to have photographs that the Iraqi dictator had missiles capable of carrying weapons of mass destruction, but who confused rolled carpets in a pipeline tube factory with missiles.
He added that the “Anglo-Saxons” were more likely to “invest more money in trying to make contacts”, but French spies focus on the ulterior motives of the targets.
