Brit killed in China was spy: Neil Heywood, the British businessman whose murder in China last year led to the downfall of a top Chinese official, was apparently an informer for MI6. The Wall Street Journal reported that Heywood passed information to British intelligence about the family of Bo Xilai. Bo’s wife, Gu Kailai, was convicted in August of poisoning Heywood, and Bo himself has been stripped of his posts as Chongqing governor and Politburo member. The British government had previously denied that Heywood was an MI6 employee, but that doesn’t preclude his working as a civilian informant. Flashy and self-promoting, Heywood drove a Jaguar with 007 on the license plate, cultivating a persona the Journal said could have been a “double bluff.”
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