Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online visits a hotel in the Jura en route to Lausanne, just as a French spy turned by Beijing did to meet his Chinese handlers.
A few months after first contact with his handlers from China's Ministry of State Security (MSS, or Guanbu) in Thailand in 2008, Pierre-Marie H., an agent with France's foreign intelligence agency, the DGSE, and his wife Laurence G. took a break in the resort of Les Rousses, a stone's throw from the Swiss border.
They stayed at Le Gai Pinson, a three-star
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