{"id":84017,"date":"2026-08-28T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/84017\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T09:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:01:22","slug":"the-cyprus-hotel-feared-to-be-used-as-a-base-for-spying-on-raf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/84017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cyprus hotel feared to be used as a base for spying on RAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"The Cyprus hotel feared to be used as a base for spying on RAF\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aqu4zjG9S84\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe Cyprus hotel feared to be used as a base for spying on RAF<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor the super-rich guests who frequent its casino and swimming pools, the City of Dreams Mediterranean is nothing more than a luxury hotel.<\/p>\n<p>But security officials fear the sprawling 15-acre complex in Cyprus could have harboured visitors with a deeper agenda than topping up their tans and eating in the various gourmet restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese-owned hotel \u2013 a stone\u2019s throw from the border of Britain\u2019s military complex in Cyprus \u2013 allows guests a bird\u2019s-eye view over one of the UK\u2019s most critical overseas bases.<\/p>\n<p>Several intelligence and military sources said that they feared foreign spies could have used the City of Dreams \u2013 which The Telegraph visited this month \u2013 as an observation post.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Sign up to the Telegraph&#8217;s free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/secure\/newsletter\/from-the-editor\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/customer\/subscription\/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/ and https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK&#8217;s best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.<\/p>\n<p>#RAF #Cyprus #China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cyprus hotel feared to be used as a base for spying on RAF For the super-rich guests&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[760,2840,9296,31,338,339,247,27977,340,337,341,267,235,4866],"class_list":["post-84017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-telegraph","tag-china","tag-cyprus","tag-espionage","tag-news","tag-news-publisher","tag-newspaper","tag-politics","tag-spy","tag-telegraph","tag-the-telegraph","tag-uk-news","tag-uk-politics","tag-world-news","tag-world-politics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117172371662735523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}