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“Red Sparrow” is based on Matthews’ book series, and the idea of using sex as a linchpin of human intelligence (HUMINT) gathering is something he euphemistically refers to as “sexpionage.”
As it happens, according to intelligence sources, the Soviet Union once ran a school to train young women in being professional “honey pots” to entrap diplomats.
At the height of the Iron Curtain years of the 1960s and 70s, Matthews said Russian sources spoke of “a ‘Sparrow’ school, a state school where women trained in these arts.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/03/red-sparrow-used-to-be-an-actual-phenomenon-during-the-cold-war.html