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Acquitted 'China spy': I was fall guy for security services
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Chris Cash, the former parliamentary researcher acquitted of spying for China, has claimed he was used as a "fall guy" by UK security services to dramatize foreign espionage threats, revealing over 6,000 messages that discuss sensitive political matters but contain no evidence of payment or allegiance to the Chinese state. The charges against Cash and his associate Chris Berry were ultimately dropped after the prosecutor determined that the government could not legally classify China as an "enemy" at the time of the alleged offenses.
