During the Cold War, intelligence agencies extensively used the amorous art of espionage to obtain secrets from enemies. If East Germany deployed “Romeo spies’’ as a cost-effective way to steal secrets—selecting well-educated men with good old-fashioned manners to identify a potential “Juliet” who had access to information they were after—the Russian spy plots involved female “swallows” to extract classified secrets. Pakistan’s ISI seems to have refined this age-old art in the digital space, carrying out  lucrative spy operations in the last decade . Chats and video calls have replaced the operational risk of physical meetings, and entrapments begin with something…