Australian businessman ‘in survival mode’ when he placated Chinese intelligence with open-source information, documents claim

Federal police statement of facts tendered to court say Alexander Csergo was in an enhanced state of paranoia' about being detained in Shanghai

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Alexander Csergo says his Chinese intelligence handlers would nominate where to meet.

When he would arrive, Ken and Evelyn - he only ever knew them by a single Anglicised name - would already be waiting and the restaurant otherwise empty of people: cleared, he believed, specifically for their meeting.

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