the kicker

Russian Honeypot

March 26, 2010

Micheal Idov of The Daily Beast has an alternately funny and chilling–but really, mostly chilling–tale of how several men who’ve given the Russian government a bit of trouble, including the editor of Newsweek‘s Russian version, found apparently surreptitiously recorded, smutty, druggy tapes of themselves made public.

Lesson: beware of Russian models bearing narcotics.

Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.