"Epstein was sort of flying very important people around the world, providing young girls for some of them," said author Martin Dillon, after conversations with sources in the Mossad. "Building files. It's how the intelligence services work."
"They call it the honeytrap," Dillon said, referring to the time-honored intelligence practice of spies using the lure of sex to entrap targets. "But it's much more sophisticated than that."
The honey trap — or "love trap," as it is sometimes known — has a long and salacious history in American espionage. According to a 1975 Washington Post report, "For years, the Central Intelligence Agency operated love traps in New York and San Francisco, where foreign diplomats were lured by prostitutes in the pay of the CIA."