This bizarre story has “intelligence work” written all over it. It’s hard to imagine a seasoned diplomat putting himself in this sort of comprising position, but then, who knows? Won't be surprised to see more of these “incidences” in the future as tit-for-tat measures go in place. At least they’re not killing each other, or at least not yet anyway.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6441461.stm

Mar 12, 2007

Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear. Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth. A foreign ministry official described Ambassador Tzuriel Refael's behavior as an unprecedented embarrassment.

Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas, 1999

The link between intelligence work and sexual entrapment is as old as spying itself. In the fourth book of Moses, Rahab, a prostitute, saves the lives of two of Joshua's spies from the king of Jericho's counterintelligence people - the first recorded meeting between the world's two oldest professions. One of Rahab's heirs in the love-and-espionage business was Mata Hari, a Dutch seductress who worked for the Germans in World War I and was executed by the French. From the beginning Mossad had recognized the value of sexual entrapment.

"It was another weapon. A woman has pillow skills a man simply does not. She knows how to listen. Pillow talk is not a problem for her. The history of modern intelligence is filled with accounts of women who have used their sex for the good of their country. To say that Israel has not done the same would be foolish. But our women are volunteers, high-minded women who know the risks involved. That takes a special kind of courage. It is not so much a question of sleeping with someone. It is to lead a man to believe you will do so in return for what he has to tell you. That does not begin to describe the great skills that are called into play to achieve that."