The thief's crime is nothing more than stealing some ordinary property, but in 1982, if he knew what he stolerate, I believe that he would not dare to do it if he had 100 dares.
【Julang 1 Submarine-launched Missile】
This thief stole the top-secret engineering documents of the mainland's first-generation submarine-launched intercontinental missile, Julang-1, and once leaked, the mainland's formation of a sea-based nuclear strike capability will be forced to delay for several years.
Top secret documents that disappeared
The mainland's first land-based ballistic missile was successfully developed in 1964, but the development of the first domestically produced SLBM, Julang-1, was completed in 1982.
【Julang 1 Submarine-launched Missile】
It took 15 years from the establishment of the project in 1967 to the preparation for the test launch in 1982.
Submarine-launched missiles must pass the sea-launch test, and for this reason the central authorities set the time for the launch test on 1 September of that year, and all leading cadres and technical personnel involved in the missile development project gathered in Dalian to prepare to witness this exciting moment.
Unexpectedly, at this juncture, Chief Engineer Ding, who was in charge of the development of the Julang-1 missile, reported a shocking news that his briefcase had been stolen from the guest house where he lived.
【Dalian Navy Guest House】
It contained seven top-secret documents on missiles, and if the relevant information was leaked, it would cause incalculable damage to national security.
Faced with the critical situation that the missile's parameters might be leaked, the Central Military Commission resolutely ordered a moratorium on the missile launch test, mobilized all public security personnel and state security personnel in Dalian, and found the briefcase and the thief who disappeared at all costs.
According to Chief Engineer Ding, his briefcase had never been left with him, and that day he and his colleagues had returned to the Dalian Guest House after dinner.
It was the height of summer, and the temperature in Dalian was very high, so after returning to the room, Chief Ding put down his briefcase and went into the bathroom to take a shower, but when he came out of the bathroom, he found that his briefcase was missing.
【Briefcase】
At first, Mr. Ding thought he was mistaken, but after rummaging around the room, he quickly realized that his briefcase had really been stolen.
General Division Ding immediately reported the news to the leaders who organized the missile test launch, and everyone immediately became nervous, urgently sealed off the entire guest house, and immediately reported the matter to General Zhang Aiping, who was in charge of the missile development work.
After learning of this news, Zhang Aiping immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and under the direct instructions of the central authorities, both the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Public Security participated in the investigation of the case, and even the most mysterious Central Military Commission Security Bureau sent special personnel to assist Dalian in the investigation.
【Dalian Police Blockade Guest House】
Julang-1 is the key to China's sea-based nuclear deterrence, and if the case is not solved or is not solved in a timely manner, it will pose a major threat to China's nuclear security situation.
A puzzling theft
Experts including Chief Engineer Ding all believe that this theft case is not so simple, the Julang 1 project is the mainland's top military secret, not to mention ordinary people, even lower-level military cadres have no authority to know, so
【Julang 1 Blueprint】
Therefore, there are only two kinds of people who can commit crimes, one is the long-planned foreign spies and enemy agents, and the other is that there are spies in the internal personnel of the project.
According to this line of thinking, the investigators ruled out the first possibility, because the mainland intelligence agencies confirmed that they obviously did not know about the launch test.
That is to say, there is a high probability that the theft was a self-theft by the guards, and experts from the Ministry of Defense and the Security Bureau agree with this judgment. However, just when the case-handling personnel were about to start the self-examination procedure, the director of the Dalian Municipal Public Security Bureau, who cooperated with the investigation, put forward his own ideas.
He is familiar with the local situation and has investigated a large number of criminal cases, and he thinks that the experts are likely to think that this case is very likely to be an ordinary burglary.
【Dalian Police】
That is, the thief did not know at all that he was stealing a state secret, also
Of course, the director of the public security bureau did not have direct evidence, he only put forward a hypothesis based on the situation at the scene and the current development of the case, but as the investigation deepened, the experts sent by the central government found that the matter could really be a coincidence as he said.
Because the thieves left fingerprints in the room, which did not match any of the insiders or the staff of the hostel, this apparently disproves the second assumption of the experts.
A little thief who made a big mistake
Just when the investigators did not know how to move forward with the case, the Dalian Public Security Bureau suddenly received two reports of burglary, both of which were thefts from the Dalian Coal Miners' Sanatorium.
【Dalian Coal Miner's Sanatorium】
After inspecting the scene, the head of the Dalian Public Security Bureau suddenly realized that the two thefts were the same as the theft of the Navy Guest House, which meant that it was likely the same person.
Interestingly, just as the Dalian Public Security Bureau designated the relevant arrest plan, the suspect sent it to the door himself, and it turned out that the police below happened to bump into this person peeping in the women's toilet and brought him back to the police station for the first trial, only to know that the other party was the suspect who caused the theft of the nursing home.
[Police take away the suspect]
Sure enough, after further surprise interrogation at the Dalian Police Station, this person admitted that he had broken into the Navy Guest House and stole it, and said that he was also shocked when he found the top-secret documents in his briefcase, and in order to destroy the incriminating evidence, he simply tore the documents into pieces and threw them into the dung pit in Dalian Xinghai Park.
Follow-up investigations by investigators confirmed this, and they found fragments of documents in a vegetable patch on the outskirts of Dalian, which had been once top-secret and had been used as fertilizer for crops.
Although the documents were destroyed, everyone let go of their hanging hearts, at least the confidential parameters of the Julang-1 missile were not leaked, which means that the relevant development work can continue.
【Great Wave 1 Launch】
After a delay of more than a month, the Julang-1 submarine-launched missile was successfully test-launched in a certain sea area of Dalian, and China finally has a practical sea-based nuclear strike capability.
Sources:
[1] Revealing the development process of China's Julang-1 missile, the test conditions are poor and white.chinanews.com [Citation date:2019-10-3]