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BBC News reports.British officials reportedly believe that the 50-year-old man was a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and had secretly worked for its United Front Work Department.On Friday, the unnamed man had lost his appeal against the UK government’s decision to ban him from the country, effective immediately from March 2023.While it’s unclear exactly how he and Andrew, 64, became acquainted, the disgraced royal previously invited his former business adviser to his birthday party in 2020.At the party, he allegedly told Andrew that he couldn’t act on his behalf when dealing with potential Chinese investors, the outlet adds. He also received an invite to join the royals at their estate in Windsor.According to the published ruling, in which the man is referred to as H6, the judge said that former home secretary Suella Braverman was entitled to conclude that [H6] represented a risk to the national security of the United Kingdom.”The ruling also states that Braverman was “entitled to conclude that his exclusion was justified and proportionate.”British officials have said that the volume of access the man had to the royals was a “serious breach of national security,” The Times of London reports.In a letter found on one of his electronic devices, one of Andrew’s advisers told him, “Outside of [the prince’s] closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on,” per the BBC.Among the other items found was a briefing document, in which the “main talking points” were laid out for a call the man was slated to have with Andrew.The document read, “IMPORTANT: Manage expectations.

“The White Lotus” Season 3 has a connection to a real-life unsolved mystery about the disappearance of a suspected American spy living in Thailand — and it all has to do with the show’s costumes. “White Lotus” costume designer Alex Bovaird revealed that for Season 3, she turned to a Thai fashion brand founded by an American intelligence officer-turned-silk merchant named Jim Thompson, who vanished without a trace in 1967 after taking a walk in the Malaysian highlands.“There is a brand [in Thailand] called Jim Thompson that we loved,” Bovaird exclusively told The Post.

a serial killer like Dexter, or a criminal like Jax Teller, but they were distinctive. Today, three identical sounding thrillers are streaming, each starring the current version of a leading man. There’s “The Night Agent” starring Gabriel Basso as a young FBI agent who finds himself in over his head amid the backdrop of far-reaching conspiracies.

Erroll Morris reveals that John le Carré had a life as intriguing as his acclaimed spy novels. The film, which premieres today on Apple TV+ and captures the English-born le Carré, who died in December 2020 at the age of 89, reflecting on his personal and professional life.

Damien Lewis) — drives the narrative arc of “A Spy Among Friends,” airing Sundays on MGM+ (10 p.m.). “One part of me feels I know [Philby], to a degree, and there’s another part of me that goes, ‘I have no idea,'” Pearce, 55, told The Post.

She was really working as a spy for the resistance, with state secrets neatly hidden in her bra. Baker took a gamble that no one would dare to strip-search her. She smiled her famous smile — she was at the time the most photographed woman in the world — as the documents stayed “snugly in place, secured by a safety pin.” Baker’s role as one of the true heroes of World War II, fighting against the Nazis at great risk to herself, is detailed in the new book “Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy” (PublicAffairs) by Damien Lewis.

Emilia Fox stars in the new Acorn TV series “Signora Volpe” as a disillusioned British intelligence officer who finds herself solving crimes in the picturesque Italian countryside. “When does it ever happen that you get sent on a great job with an amazing story with such a great character to the most beautiful place?” Fox, 47, told The Post.

when he died last year. But never averse to a literary twist, he left behind a finished novel for ardent readers.