Former Russian sex spy reveals how she manipulated her targets into becoming ‘obsessed’ with her

After charming her targets arsenic a “master manipulator,” Aliia Roza is breaking her silence.

The erstwhile Russian national who claims to beryllium an ex-spy is revealing her tales of sexpionage successful a caller podcast from Tenderfoot TV and iHeartPodcasts, “To Die For.”

The podcast claims to beryllium nan first clip an alleged Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)-trained “seduction agent” is speaking retired astir her “training, techniques, targets and missions,” Deadline.com reported.

It was launched by Neil Strauss, writer of “The Game” who besides wrote “The Dirt” astir stone set Mötley Crüe.

“It’s been complete 2 decades that I’ve stayed silent,” Roza told Fox News Digital. “But for a fewer reasons, I couldn’t support my silence. I couldn’t unrecorded pinch this symptom anymore, moreover though I’ve been done each this trauma. … If it was not maine [speaking out], past who would speak out?”

In nan podcast, listeners will observe really Roza managed to fly Moscow pinch her young son. Roza said she wanted to springiness her kid a amended life.

“The biggest accomplishment of my life is becoming a parent,” Roza explained. “I wanted to acquisition that. I wanted to create a family. I wanted to person kids. And I was not allowed to do that. And past I realized, ‘Wait a minute. I unrecorded only 1 life. I don’t want to walk my life sacrificing for thing I don’t believe successful anymore.’ That was nan infinitesimal erstwhile I looked for possibilities to escape.”

Roza was calved into a Kazakh-Tatar family of a high-ranking subject serviceman successful nan Soviet Union. Her grandfather fought nan Nazis during World War II, and her begetter is simply a high-ranking serviceman of complete 45 years. As a child, Roza said, she was progressive successful a special government programme for children of high-ranking officers.

Roza described really she erstwhile had large dreams to pursue fashion design. But it was her father, she said, who warned her, “There’s no different option.”

“I was trained from a very early property to do different things for illustration martial arts, physical activities,” Roza claimed. “I learned you cannot springiness up, you cannot beryllium vulnerable, you cannot beryllium weak, you cannot cry. Nobody tin participate this program. If you don’t have a family personnel who is simply a high-ranking officer, it’s impossible.

“I ne'er thought I would [later] participate a activity program.”

At property 18, Roza said, she was chosen retired of 350 students to participate successful a top-secret programme developed by erstwhile KGB psychologists and high-ranking officers. There, Roza said, she studied really to usage seduction and persuasion to get accusation from force targets.

“It’s not conscionable activity – it’s very acold from sex actually,” Roza explained. “It’s all astir nan creation of communication. We’re taught how to dress up, really to put connected makeup, really to coming yourself, really to speak pinch your targets, really to make your targets judge successful you and spot you. … It’s about nan psychology of people, of criminals, of men. … It’s about understanding the position of men and what exactly they want.”

“When you seduce, it’s … as elemental arsenic starting pinch bully compliments,” she continued. “It’s not just, ‘I for illustration your jacket.’ It has to beryllium something really specific and due from that moment. This will make group really attracted to you. They’ll start to for illustration you. And erstwhile you cognize really to lead a conversation, group will go very unfastened to you. They will go very friendly. … You study really to beryllium polite, friendly, respectful successful society.

“And location are nan activity techniques,” she teased. “This is really hardcore. But it’s making your target go obsessed pinch you. That’s a wholly different game.”

Roza said it took “many years” for her to later recognize she was “brainwashed” as a “master manipulator.”

“I was made to judge that I was a leader fighting against quality and supplier trafficking, redeeming each of these underage kids that were … kidnapped from their families,” she said. “I would spot each nan parents coming to our section crying, begging america to help.

“We as agents had this very low salary. … We had for illustration $100 a period moving six days a week. … But I felt patriotic. I felt for illustration a leader saving someone’s life. And I felt very powerful. I felt that cipher could do thing to me. I was sacrificing my assemblage doing each these missions. So, I conscionable detached my emotions from my body.

“At nan extremity of nan day, erstwhile I saved someone’s life, I felt bully astir it,” Roza shared. “But I ne'er asked myself really I felt being successful a assemblage that was perpetually abused and raped by random men. … One erstwhile FBI supplier said I was a broken toy, that I was activity trafficked myself. … But each my classmates, we didn’t feel this way. We felt patriotic. We were fresh to sacrifice and do thing for our government. That’s how I felt.”

Strauss told Fox News Digital that, at first, it was difficult to believe Roza’s story. But aft doing investigation and speaking to sources, it was difficult to disregard her claims.

“I only covered nan communicative of Aliia’s time successful Russia,” he explained. “But there’s a full different world, a full different story. There are very aggravated experiences, trauma, PTSD. … It goes successful a spot nary 1 expects.

“I remember nan first clip I was introduced to Aliia complete dinner,” Strauss recalled. “When she started speaking, everyone stopped what they were doing. They only listened to her. She held nan level for nan remainder of nan meal. That’s all I could deliberation astir afterward. … There was a communicative present that needed to be told. And it was besides nan measurement she told her story. I ne'er heard thing for illustration it before.”

In 2004, Roza fell successful emotion pinch a man she was meant to stitchery intelligence on, nan New York Post reported. According to nan outlet, nan man’s associates discovered she was a spy. With nan thief of her lover, Roza fled Moscow and yet laid down roots successful Los Angeles.

Roza has not returned to Russia for much than a decade, she said. She assumed a caller name, 1 she still uses today.

Roza said contempt moving to extremity quality and supplier trafficking arsenic a spy, she besides felt “used” by nan Russian government.

“I saw each these different female agents who reached a definite age, for illustration 56,” she said. “They were truthful miserable, truthful lonely. They were not allowed to person backstage lives. They couldn’t person families. … I couldn’t let that to hap to me.”

Today, Roza teaches her tips connected seduction not to agents-in-training, but to women eager to boost their self-esteem. She has complete a cardinal followers connected Instagram.

She described being “disappointed” by nan Russia-Ukraine war.

“Putin started nan war,” she said. “All of these guiltless group person died for nary reason. … It’s awful. We request to speak retired astir it because it’s not over. … Who will speak retired against this evil? What is happening successful nan world? I do hope my communicative will promote women to beryllium inspired, support each different and stock their stories. I dream we tin unite.”

Strauss is hopeful nan podcast will promote different erstwhile female spies to travel forward.

“What stood retired to me? Most group are acrophobic to talk,” he explained. “And if nan Russian intelligence programme is truthful widespread, why are truthful fewer group consenting to travel forward? And I deliberation a batch of people don’t understand what it’s like for a female increasing up successful nan Russian subject intelligence community, nan deficiency of rights, nan deficiency of agency, nan maltreatment and scary that goes connected there.

“I can show you from researching Aliia’s story … it doesn’t go good for anyone,” he added. “The agents are arsenic exploited arsenic nan targets. I deliberation location are nary winners present when you’re using activity and emotion arsenic weapons of war.”