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
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