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Shi Pei Pu —The Espionage Story That Will Blow Your Mind Away
The spy even purchased a child to convince the diplomat and to steal information
This is a story of a Chinese spy and a French diplomat — one of the world’s strongest international espionage tales of recent times.
Why is it so famous?
The Chinese spy named Shi Pei Pu was an opera singer born in the Shandong province of China, and died in a French nursing home in Paris, in 2009.
His father was a professor and his mother was a teacher. He had two elder sisters. He studied at Yunnan University, where he learned the French language.
At the age of 17, Shi started practicing acting, and singing and participated in many opera shows. Even Shi wrote the scripts for many plays too!
The strange story of Shi’s life started when he masqueraded as a woman, and had a 20 years long sexual relationship with a French diplomat Bernard Boursicot to steal some intelligence secrets.
Bernard Boursicot was posted as an accountant in the French embassy in Beijing. At this time he was a 20-year young guy.
He was posted just after the French government recognized the Chinese Communist regime. The…
