London Letter: Talk of espionage in the city has been hotting up recently
I showed up outside the little mews house down a cobbled lane near the canal district. The estate agent was a bright and breezy younger man. He showed me around the house, which was clearly occupied. I knew in an instant it wasn’t for me. It was far smaller than it seemed from the pictures, which must have been taken using a fish-eye camera lens. It was dark with a baffling layout, but still capable of raising a king’s ransom in rent due to its location. Not from me, though.
The screens and their whirring hard drives were all linked by ream after ream of heavy cables, while down at one end of the room, everything seemed to converge on what resembled a large mixing desk, the sort you find in a radio broadcast studio. Boxes of documents were everywhere. Weeks later, I attended a group breakfast briefing with Alicia Kearns, a feisty young Conservative MP who is also the chair of the House of Commons foreign affairs committee. Heavily critical of states she perceives as hostile to Britain, such as China, she spoke of how politicians must be careful of being targeted by spies.
Maybe the four young men weren’t Iranian intelligence agents. If not, they were the world’s best-equipped online gamers.In recent days, it emerged that a young Brit with a pass for the Westminster parliamentary estate was arrested in March for allegedly spying for China. He was employed as a researcher by Kearns, who, weeks earlier, had warned us she was a target.
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