The British government took the unusual step on Thursday of stating that Neil Heywood, the British businessman thought to have been murdered in China, was not a spy working as a member of the British intelligence services.
In a letter to the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee, William Hague, foreign secretary, said Mr Heywood “was not an employee of the British government in any capacity”.
Mr Hague wrote to the committee after MPs questioned him about reports that Mr Heywood might have been an MI6 agent or passed information to the UK secret services.
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