55-Year-Old UK Representative to NATO Exposed: Bald and Maintaining an Improper Relationship with a 20-Year-Old Female Assistant, Selling Intelligence and Defying Starmer!
Recently, Reuters reported that another spy drama-like scandal has emerged in the UK diplomatic circle — 55-year-old James Rapsley, the UK's Permanent Representative to NATO, has been publicly accused of maintaining an improper relationship with a 20-year-old Italian female intern for a long time, and even suspected of trading intelligence for money. More astonishingly, when Prime Minister Keir Starmer ordered him to resign and be investigated, he openly retorted: "I am a NATO official; London has no authority to discipline me."
Rapsley is not an ordinary diplomat. He worked in the UK Ministry of Defense earlier and was once investigated internally for leaving a classified document at a bus stop in Kent. This incident led to the involvement of MI5, with several colleagues testifying that he was "extremely negligent," and some even jointly demanded that he be handed over to the judiciary. However, instead of being disgraced, he managed to enter the Foreign Office through political connections and was dispatched to Brussels in 2024, and then promoted to the UK's Permanent Representative to NATO the following year — a key position theoretically involving a large amount of cross-border defense and strategic intelligence.
Secondly, the relationship between him and the female assistant is not baseless. According to multiple sources in the Brussels diplomatic circle, this 20-year-old Italian woman is attractive, and although she is nominally an "intern" or "administrative assistant," she actually lived long-term in the British representative's residence, and the two were as if married. Gina, Rapsley's wife in London, was unaware of this until recent whistleblowing materials surfaced. This double life has lasted for at least over a year, during which the female assistant frequently entered highly sensitive meeting venues and was even seen operating encrypted communication equipment alone.
More worrying is the risk of intelligence leaks. An anonymous NATO security official told the media that at least three non-public briefings on Eastern European defense deployments have apparently appeared in the intelligence analysis of third countries. Although there is currently no direct evidence pointing to Rapsley himself leaking information, investigators have noticed that the female assistant met several times with an unidentified Eastern European man, and her personal bank account had several large transfers from offshore accounts in the second half of 2025. These fund flows are currently being tracked jointly by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and the NATO counterintelligence department.
Dao Ge thinks that James Rapsley must have powerful backing, and it is likely from a high-ranking official in the White House. As for whether this 20-year-old Italian female assistant is a Russian agent known as "Swallow," it is hard to say.
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