Honeypots in espionage fiction

In espionage terminology, "honeypot" is one of several ways to refer to a recruitment that involves sexual seduction. See Sex, honeypots, and recruitment for real-world examples.

*"North by Northwest" has Eva Marie Saint as both the honeypot and a double agent
*In "Munich" Avner says: "beware the local honey trap"
*"Traffic" features a same-sex honeypot trap
*In , Sam Tyler arrests the henchman of a local Mr. Big, only to be humiliated in a honey trap.
*The "M*A*S*H" episode "Are you now, Margaret?" from September 24, 1979 [cite web | url=http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/mash/guide/ | title=M*A*S*H FAQ: Episode Guide #172 | accessdate=2007-05-21 | author=Doug Krause | year=1997]
*In "Bad Boys 2", Martin Lawrence's character refers to his sister as a honeypot for the DEA.
*In "Alias", Laura Bristow, the mother of the central character Sydney Bristow was a honeypot.
*In "Battlestar Galactica", a copy of Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, pretending to be the real Valerii, staged a rescue of the stranded Helo on occupied Caprica. The rescue mission was an elaborate ruse to get Helo to fall in love with Valerii, but backfired when Valerii also fell in love and betrayed her own people to flee with Helo.
*In his book "Kotilaisen kotiryssä" (1991) Lasse Lehtinen describes a failed honey trap attempt: Lea Kotilainen is well aware of his husband's whereabouts and would react on Ostap Nepeipivo's extortion attempt on photographs with indifference.
* In the game , the player character can defend a Republic agent accused of murder. It's revealed that the murder victim was a Sith woman sent to seduce the Republic agent and gain information.

James Bond

*In "Casino Royale", Vesper Lynd is a Soviet double agent.
*In "From Russia with Love", SMERSH uses Tatiana Romanova in an attempt to lure James Bond to his death.
*In "Live and Let Die", Solitaire transfers her allegiance from Mr. Big to Bond, becoming a double agent.

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