Former female spy reveals disturbing reality of being trained to 'manipulate men'
A woman who claims she was trained in the art of seduction by Russian intelligence services revealed a string of her secret techniques.
Aliia Roza has lifted the lid on what it is like to be a so-called 'sex spy' whose main objective was to use her attractiveness to gain information, which is a strategy often dubbed 'honey trapping'.
Although this might sound glamorous to some, she is keen to dispel this idea - as she later realised she was 'brainwashed' into believing she was doing the right thing.
Roza, 41, claims she comes from a line of high-ranking military officers who served in the Soviet Union, so was 'trained from a very early age' to become one of Russia's future secret agents.
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Her childhood was spent mastering martial arts and psychological manipulation, before she was then schooled on how her appearance and charm could be used as powerful tools when she became an adult.
According to Roza, she was selected to take part in a top-secret program where she learnt how her visual allure could be used to her advantage.
"It’s not just sex - it’s very far from sex actually," Roza explained while speaking to Fox News Digital in 2024. "t’s all about the art of communication.
"We’re taught how to dress up, how to put on makeup, how to present yourself, how to speak with your targets, how to make your targets believe in you and trust you.
"It’s about the psychology of people, of criminals, of men. It’s about understanding the perspective of men and what exactly they want."
The mum told how she learned how to shower her targets with 'really specific' compliments to put herself on their radar, while crafting conversations to ensure people felt 'very open' around her.
Roza's realisation
She reckons being 'polite, friendly, respectful' gets sex spies quite far - however, Roza alleges that she also had to get physical to complete some of her assignments, too.
Describing this element of the job as 'really hardcore', she then discussed how she would deploy 'sex techniques' on her subjects.
"It’s making your target become obsessed with you," Roza went on. "That’s a completely different game."
Initially, successfully seducing her targets to gain information made her 'feel like a hero' and 'patriotic' - but Roza later realised she had been 'brainwashed' into becoming a 'master manipulator'.
"I was made to believe that I was a hero fighting against human and drug trafficking, saving all of these underage kids...I would see all the parents coming to our department crying, begging us to help," Roza said.
"We as agents had this very low salary. We had like $100 a month working six days a week. But I felt patriotic. I felt like a hero saving someone’s life. And I felt very powerful. I felt that nobody could do anything to me."
"I was sacrificing my body doing all these missions," Roza added. "So, I just detached my emotions from my body."
Roza said she ultimately felt as though she had been 'used' by Russia and saw a bleak future ahead of her if she did not get out.
"I saw all these other female agents who reached a certain age, like 56," she said. "They were so miserable, so lonely. They were not allowed to have private lives. They couldn’t have families. I couldn’t allow that to happen to me."
After giving birth to her son - which she describes as the 'biggest achievement of her life' - she began searching for an escape route out of Moscow, and her career as a sex spy.
Roza, who has now put down roots in the US, said she realised that she did not 'want to spend her life sacrificing for something she didn't believe in anymore'.
After living a life which sounds like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster, Roza reinvented herself as a women’s empowerment coach, public speaker, and fashion influencer, who boasts over one million followers on Instagram.
Topics: Russia, World News, Sex and Relationships
Olivia Burke
