MI6 Beijing Station
The Secret Intelligence Service had a station in Beijing by around 1925, although much of the service's early Chinese activity was centred on Shanghai (ref 3, p.258).
In 1928, the SIS officer in Beijing was reporting, based on a source in Harbin, on Comintern attempts to infiltrate far eastern activists into the US textile industry (ref 3, p.251).
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