Night, June 9, 1997.
Outside the gate of a military academy in Xi'an, a blue Santana sedan quietly "crouched" in the shadows, like a cat hunting, waiting for the mouse to come out of the hole. Inside the car, three scouts from the Xi'an Municipal State Security Bureau, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhao, and Xiao Shang, stared at the movement at the school gate vigilantly.
It was almost 12 o'clock when a middle-aged man walked out of the school gate, reached for a taxi, opened the door and sat up. The taxi was just about to start, Santana rushed out of the shadows with an acceleration, turned sharply, braked, and blocked the taxi's way.
At the same time, the three scouts flew out of the car, Xiao Zhao and Xiao Shangyi stuck on both sides of the taxi left and right, Xiao Zhang pulled the car door, lit up the documents in his hand, and asked: "Are you Mr. Tian?" The middle-aged man was frightened by this sudden posture, and without a moment's hesitation, he mechanically replied: "Yes, yes, I am surnamed Tian." ”
"We are from the Xi'an Municipal State Security Bureau, looking for you, come with us!" This Mr. Tian listened, seemed to understand something, did not say a word, and got out of the taxi in frustration.
At this point, the state security department of Xi'an City lasted 4 years of investigation, and the Taiwan latent espionage case code-named "3450" was finally solved. Tian Yuejin, a spy who had been lurking for 7 years, finally fell into the net.
One
The time is set back to June 6, 1993.
This morning, the leaders of the state security department of Xi'an City had just gone to work when a letter with a top-secret seal was delivered. This is a briefing on espionage leads. The circular said: Since March 1990, Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau has contacted a potential spy code-named "3450" eight times, the main contents of which are to welcome him to join the Taiwan spy organization; to teach him the preparation method of the secret writing agent and the contact code of the two sides; and to ask him to collect personnel information and central documents of the leader.
The circular also said that the "3450" spies have repeatedly sent secret letters to Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, reporting on the documents they collected to sweep away the "six harms" in Shaanxi Province and wang Youcai, the target of development. After reading the briefing materials, the leaders of the state security department of Xi'an City attached great importance to it, immediately made a report to the provincial state security bureau, and held a case analysis meeting.
Soon, they found a clue. The "3450" spies chose to send letters in Zhengzhou or Guangzhou, Henan, each time, but the envelopes they used were printed by the Xi'an Printing House, and the contents of the secret reports he collected were related to Shaanxi Province. Everyone analyzed and judged that this spy was most likely hiding in Shaanxi Province or Xi'an. He has carried out off-site deliveries many times, indicating that he has a strong sense of anti-reconnaissance and is obviously professionally trained.
At the end of the meeting, a special task force composed of more than 10 business backbones was immediately set up to investigate the "3450" spies.
Two
The area of espionage activity was initially determined, but the first step was to make the task force difficult. The vast Shaanxi Province has tens of millions of people, and it is not easy to pick out a trained lurking spy from it.
In order to find a breakthrough, the task force made a further analysis of the situation it had. From the mission instructions given by Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau to the "3450" spy, the contents of the secret letters delivered by the spy to the outside world, and the analysis of language and handwriting, the spy may have joined the spy organization abroad in late 1989 or early 1990, with an education level below high school and between the ages of 25 and 35, and his main task was to "develop the organization and collect intelligence."
Based on these clues, the special case team determined the investigation plan and conducted an in-depth and meticulous investigation separately. However, the real crime-solving work is not as exciting and romantic as in film and television works, and the whole process is very hard and boring. Because the spies used pseudonyms and the envelopes used for posting were sold in a wide range, the case-handling personnel traveled to many places without obtaining valuable clues.
The circular mentioned that the "3450" spies had developed a downline named Wang Youcai, and the special case team decided to follow this clue down. After further investigation, they found that Wang Youcai of a newspaper in Shaanxi had been to the border of Guangxi, and often traveled all over the country on business, with complicated contacts.
As a result, the task force immediately investigated it. Unfortunately, the investigation did not uncover any suspicious evidence, and the clues were once again interrupted.
Three
In the blink of an eye, more than two years have passed, and there has been no progress in the investigation work. At the end of 1996, the State Security Department of Xi'an City held a meeting to further analyze the facts of the case and summarize and review the work in recent years. At the meeting, the leaders put forward a new work idea, in addition to arranging relevant personnel to continue to investigate, focusing on Wang Youcai's communication circle to find.
After adjusting the thinking, the detection work quickly took a turn for the better. After more than 5 months of investigation, the special case team learned of a situation: in early 1990, Wang Youcai, Tian Yuejin and Wang Zhiyun cooperated in Hainan to do business, during which Tian Yuejin went from Hainan to Bangkok, Thailand. After grasping this situation, the special case group immediately interviewed Wang Youcai, and after repeated ideological work, Wang Youcai provided an important situation to the special case group.
According to Wang, Tian Yuejin went to Thailand in early 1993 and took the initiative to give him a gift after returning to Xi'an, saying that there was a Taiwanese in Bangkok who took good care of him and wanted to learn about the situation on the mainland from him. "Because I worked at a newspaper and had a wide range of contacts, he asked me to work for Taiwanese, and I didn't agree."
According to the information provided by Wang Youcai, combined with the analysis of the clues that have been mastered, this Tian Yuejin is very suspicious. Therefore, they immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation of Tian Yuejin's personal situation and identified his handwriting. The results of the investigation showed that this person had indeed been to Thailand in early 1990, and his handwriting was exactly the same as that of MeSince. This proves that Tian Yuejin is the "3450" lurking spy that the special case team has been looking for for more than three years.
The espionage case that had been painstakingly investigated for several years was about to be solved, and the comrades of the special case group were extremely excited.
Four
On June 9, 1997, with the approval of the Shaanxi Provincial Public Security Department, the special case team finally closed the net. In order to successfully complete the task of arrest, the Xi'an Municipal State Security Bureau specially dispatched capable personnel to form an action team, and the high commissioner personally commanded the implementation of the arrest operation.
Tian Yuejin opened a tea shop in Xi'an City, which usually closes around 7 p.m. At about 6:30 p.m. that day, the action team took two Santanas to the tea shop and prepared to arrest them when they closed their doors and returned home. In order to facilitate the action, the high commissioner ordered the reconnaissance officer Xiao Zhang and the other three people to park the car more than ten meters away from the tea shop, and he and Chief Li stopped a little farther away, ready to deal with the unexpected situation.
Xiao Zhao had just arrived at the door of the tea shop and found that Tian Yuejin had closed the door in advance, and he and his girlfriend got into a red Xiali taxi on the side of the road. They immediately reported to the High Commissioner and drove behind.
The taxi went all the way west and stopped at a family home in a factory in the suburbs, where Tian Yuejin's mother lived on the second floor of a building in the middle. The family area is all old-fashioned buildings, the environment is chaotic, and it is the Dragon Boat Festival on the same day, the head of the high department surveyed the surroundings, in order to prevent accidents, but also afraid of alarming the elderly at home, he decided to suspend the arrest, ordered the investigators to guard the exit and wait.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, just as everyone was sitting in the car and nibbling on the burnt cake, the family area suddenly lost power. The courtyard was pitch black, and the observation encountered difficulties, so the scouts put down the burnt cake in their hands, stared wide-eyed, and concentrated, afraid that if they did not pay attention, they would let people run. After waiting for more than two hours, a man and a woman came out arm in arm and passed near Santana, and the scouts identified it as Tian Yuejin and his girlfriend.
Because he was with his girlfriend, the scout was inconvenient to arrest, so he had to continue to track and act on camera. The two walked out of the family home, walked for about 20 minutes, and entered the back door of a military academy. Director Gao immediately asked Xiao Zhao and three others to block the front door, and he and Chief Li waited at the back door. At about 11:45 p.m., Tian Yuejin walked out of the school alone, and the scene at the beginning of the article occurred.
Five
After Tian Yuejin was arrested, he was immediately sent to the pre-trial room for interrogation. At this time, it was nearly one o'clock in the morning, and the action team could not take a break, and quickly went to the Tian family to carry out a search mission, and found evidence such as secret writing agents and codebooks.
The evidence was overwhelming, and Tian Yuejin quickly confessed his crime. It turned out that he had been listening to Taiwan radio for a long time and had illusions about the lights and wine of propaganda, so he had the idea of defecting to Taiwan. In February 1990, he traveled to Bangkok with a forged Thai passport and sent a letter of surrender at the address provided on Taiwan radio, but received no reply. A few days later, he contacted Taiwan's Commercial Office in Thailand and expressed his willingness to work for Taiwan, and was warmly received.
The Taiwanese arranged a high-end hotel for him and gave him a lot of "enthusiastic" care in life, but they refused Tian Yuejin's request. The Taiwanese told him that if he stayed on the mainland and worked, his "contribution" would be greater. Under the training of Taiwanese intelligence personnel, Tian Yuejin learned skills such as listening to and recording encrypted broadcasts and writing secret documents. After that, he signed an affidavit, took $3,000 in funding for the event, and boarded the plane back to China.
Back in Xi'an, Tian Yuejin immediately sent a letter of safety to Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau as required. Subsequently, he went to Wang Youcai and Wang Zhiyun, hoping to develop them into spies. Taiwan's spy agencies attach great importance to Wang Youcai and twice instructed Tian Yuejin to report on his situation. While developing espionage organizations, Tian Yuejin also actively collected intelligence, compiled some of China's internal documents and military materials into key points, and secretly reported them to the Military Intelligence Bureau on the other side.
In 1991, Tian Yuejin smuggled himself from Shenzhen to Hong Kong, reported to Taiwanese spies and received $6,000 in funding for the event. In 1993, he went to Thailand to contact Taiwanese spies...
Although Tian Yuejin's theft was not top-secret intelligence, his participation in Taiwan's espionage organizations and espionage activities constituted a crime of endangering national security, and Tian also confessed to his crimes. On January 20, 1998, the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court tried the case and sentenced Tian Yuejin to six years in prison. At this point, the Taiwanese spy who had been lurking for 7 years was finally punished by the law.