One of the motives in recruiting an agent often mentioned is relationships or even just sex. However, it is very often used by foreign hostile intelligence services as part of Compromice, as part of the black mail of the target. Russians have developed a method of compromising targets called kompromat.Not only is sex part of kompromat, but also to getting close to a target to assess the target, steal information covertly, influence the target or just keep collect intelligence by elicitationof the target in a long-term operation. These types of agent or, in some cases, spies, are known as sparrows. A commonly known type of sexpionage is a honey trap operation, which is designed to compromise an opponent sexually.Former CIA officer, Jason Matthews, stationed in Helsinki among other European CIA stations, claimed that the Soviet Union had an espionage school southeast of Moscow (Matthews, 2013).There are many examples of confirmed or alleged sexpionage cases worldwide. The story of senior politicians and diplomatswho provided information consciously or unconsciously in bed to an agent is extensive. All the operations designed as a "honey trap" are based on this motive. And men, because they are mostly men, continue to get stuck in the honey traps, kompromats or not. From a distance it sur looks naive, but it still works. Illegalists using sexspionage. Sometimes, especially with deep undercover which is often orchestrated by Russian intelligence, the relationship has no operative objective, just part of building a legend as an illegalist. Russian illegalists often build their fake personas in countries like Brazil and Venezuela for later transition to operating in countries like Slovenia, Greece, the Netherlands and Norway, which are some of the countries identified as illegalist operations in the last few years.