Shi Peip, a fan of Peking opera, was sentenced to six years in prison for espionage by the French Special Fellowship Court in 1986. He was convicted of six years of espionage at the same time as Bernard Boscotte, a staff member of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bernard was accused of providing more than 30 French diplomatic documents to China from 1977 to 1979.
This case is considered to be the first espionage case of China against France detected by France. When the protagonist Shi Peip is dressed as a woman, and the fake act is real, Bernard Te always believes Shi Pepp is a woman, desperately pursuing and loving each other, and sincerely believes that he has given birth to a child. At that time, Pep was in jail, and Bernard refused to believe that the other party was a man. He did not wake up until the police put him in a cell with Shi Pep.
On Christmas 1964, Bernard, a 20-year-old staff member of the French Embassy in Beijing, met Shi Peip, who likes to pretend to be a man and act as a actor at the holiday party. Shi Pep was 26 years old and spoke fluent French. Bernard fell in love at first sight. For 20 years, Bernard believed that Shi Pep was a woman who was crazy in love and pursued reluctantly. During the period, he changed countries abroad many times and tried to meet Pep at the same time. When the Chinese spy department saw the fake dramas, they sang the tricks. Under the organization and arrangement, Shi Peip began to deal with Bernard in earnest. In 1965, Shi Peip told the other party that he was pregnant, and later brought a blue-eyed baby from Xinjiang to replace him. Bernard firmly believed in this "Chinese-French crystallization". In this way, many French diplomatic documents have been continuously transferred to the Chinese intelligence services through Bernard's hands.
In 1982, Bernard took Shi Peip out of mainland China and settled in Paris. The facts of the case were revealed the following year and both went to jail. Bernard only then realized that Shi Peip was a spy and that he was teased by the Chinese intelligence agency. In the court, Bernard defended himself by saying that he was betraying the motherland because of his love for Shi Peip and to prevent their relationship from being banned by China. He explained that the relationship between Chinese and foreigners in that era The relationship is easily banned by China, and he did so to protect the future of their "son".
Shipep himself was pardoned by the then French President Mitterrand in 1987 and has since settled in Paris.
(News source: RFI)
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