Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online explores the four-star Tropical Resort in Phuket, where, over several years, a double agent from France's DGSE was 'handled' by China's secret services.
It's 14 January 2008, and Pierre-Marie H., a civil servant with France's DGSE foreign intelligence service has travelled to Thailand for the first time in his career. This father of five, who after working in counter-intelligence saw his career decline to the point of being "sidelined" to the archives department, travelled the 10,000 kilometres from Paris to Phuket without his employer's knowledge. And with good reason: the French spy had since 2006 been collaborating with China's Ministry of State
