The Russian honeytrap: alleged spy for Moscow faces five years in US prison

Nomma Zarubina, convicted of lying to the FBI, is the latest Russian woman accused of using her sexual wiles for spying

Nomma Zarubina, 35, now sits in a New York jail awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to charges that she lied to the FBI about her contacts with the FSB, Russia's biggest domestic intelligence service.

But, in a playbook that comes straight from the cold war, the striking-looking Zarubina - known as Alyssa" to her Russian handlers - was tasked with meeting prominent Americans in order to lure them into the orbit of Moscow intelligence.