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Six high-end brothels in the suburbs of Boston and Washington, D.C., were secretly set up by nations like Russia, China, and Israel to serve as espionage honeypots, intelligence experts claim. A honeypot is a scheme used to lure powerful actors to reveal secrets.

These experts say all six sex houses were masterminded by a 41-year-old South Korean woman who targeted politicians, high-ranking government officials, and defense contractors. Confusion revolves around which country was behind the scheme, with Russia, China, South Korea, or Israel being the likely suspects.

In November, these brothels were raided, with prosecutors looking to charge 28 people in Massachusetts alone. Members of Congress, military officers, and national security contractors who “possessed security clearances” were among the regular customers at the locations, prosecutors say.

Intelligence experts note the locations of the brothels as evidence for them serving as honeypots. Two of the brothels operated from units in luxury apartment buildings just fifteen minutes away from the White House, Congress, Pentagon, and CIA, while the ones in Boston were near Harvard and MIT, which train government officials and produce reports for the Pentagon.

A former foreign spy told The Daily Mail: “The most valuable information in Washington and Boston are government secrets. If you open a prostitution business that caters to wealthy clients in those cities, you'll get a lot of people walking through the doors that have access to them.”