WASHINGTON, April 2 -- Bryon Noem, husband of former US homeland security secretary Kristi Noem, has been accused of maintaining a secret online life involving cross‑dressing and explicit conversations with fetish models.

The Daily Mail reported that Noem, 56, shared photos of himself in revealing outfits and exchanged messages with women from the "bimbofication" scene, where performers modify their bodies to resemble dolls.

Former CIA officer Marc Polymeropoulos told the newspaper, "If a media organisation can find this out, you can assume with a high degree of confidence that a hostile intelligence service knows this as well."

According to the report, Noem used pseudonyms while sending money through PayPal and Cash App, with pa...