Beneath the summer haze of Hangzhou, a quiet meeting unfolded that would later lie at the heart of one of the most controversial espionage sagas in recent British history.

Christopher Berry, a teacher from Oxfordshire, met with a senior Chinese Communist Party official amid the chaos of the bustling Chinese city.

Berry later relayed details of that encounter to Christopher Cash, a rising political aide with access to internal UK-China policy discussions. According to UK authorities, Cash was quietly passing confidential insights from Westminster, while Berry served as a go-between, feeding those details to a Chinese intelligence officer codenamed “Alex.” New Feature

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“You’re in spy territory now,” Cash allegedly wrote to Berry.

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