On April 14, the Ministry of State Security announced 10 typical espionage cases, including Kovrig Kai, Michael, Liang Chengyun, Hou Moumou, Kaisheng Rongying Company, etc. 【Details】
Through these 10 typical cases, we have doxxed all kinds of despicable methods used by foreign espionage and intelligence agencies to infiltrate, steal secrets, and plot rebellion, and firmly establish the people's awareness of anti-espionage.
During his time abroad, he was instigated to rebel
He also had illegitimate children with foreign government officials
Zhang Xiangbin, a former foreign language translator of a national ministry, was once sent to a certain country, and during his stay abroad, he got acquainted with the personnel of the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who not only helped Zhang Xiangbin improve his foreign language translation skills, but also took the initiative to solve his difficulties in work and life. In fact, the other party is a member of the country's espionage and intelligence agencies, and Zhang Xiangbin has fallen into a carefully woven trap.
During the exchange, Zhang Xiangbin became "grateful" and "dependent" on him, and the two sides gradually changed from official contact to secret communication, and then the other party tempted him to provide information with high remuneration. In the years that followed, Zhang Xiangbin ignored national interests and work discipline, acted as a spy for foreign governments, and developed a lover with a female government official of that country, giving birth to two illegitimate children, which became a powerful lever for the spy intelligence agency to control him.
Later, because he was afraid of the East Window incident, Zhang Xiangbin resigned. Before resigning, he collected a large amount of documents and materials from the unit's computer and intranet, and even disassembled the computer host to copy the documents and illegally carried them abroad. After investigation by the state security organs, Zhang Xiangbin secretly stored 5,200 documents and materials, of which 59 were marked as top secret, 848 were classified as secret, and 541 were classified as secret. In February 2019, Zhang Xiangbin was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for espionage and illegally obtaining state secrets.
Taiwan spies took advantage of the status of the director of the research institute
Collect and extract intelligence on the mainland
Zheng Yuqin, a native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, developed a strong interest in intelligence science during his studies, and while studying for a doctorate at Charles University in the Czech Republic, he got acquainted with members of Taiwan's "National Security Bureau" and took the initiative to send his own research articles on intelligence agencies to the other side.
After returning to Taiwan, Zheng Yuqin became acquainted with the personnel of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and in order to accomplish the tasks proposed by the other side, Zheng Yuqin went to the mainland many times to collect intelligence and to look for personnel for Taiwan's espionage and intelligence organs who could instigate rebellion.
He deliberately marked the contact information of Taiwan's military intelligence personnel as a "tax refund center" and signed for espionage funds under a pseudonym. At the suggestion of Zheng Yuqin, Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau also set up the "Sino-European Institute of Political Economy" in the Czech Republic, with Zheng Yuqin as the person in charge in order to collect intelligence.
He made great use of his title as "director" and his status as a professor at Charles University to participate in international conferences, collect and understand the country's views on major issues in China's politics, national defense, science and technology, and military industry, and establish contacts with participating scholars from the mainland of the motherland to obtain intelligence.
As of the time of the case, Taiwan spies had distributed a total of NT$2.76 million in espionage funds to Zheng Yuqin. In April 2019, Zheng Yuqin was arrested by state security authorities on suspicion of espionage when he entered the mainland, and in February 2022 he was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Staff of scientific research units
Actively sell core secrets
One day, the public website of a certain country's spy and intelligence organs received a piece of information about the refuge from China, along with a short-wave password, and they quickly confirmed that this short-wave password was a high-level password used by the Chinese military, and that the mysterious defector's name was Huang Yu, a staff member of a certain Chinese scientific research unit involved in secrets.
Because he was notified to wait for his post in the last elimination of the unit reform, Huang Yu thought that the leader was crowding him out, and out of resentment, he decided to sell the core secrets he mastered, retaliate against the unit, and at the same time grab huge benefits. He not only sold all the secrets he illegally kept while working in the unit, but also deceived his wife, who worked in the same unit, to copy the classified materials in order to obtain more payment.
After investigation, Huang Yu sold a huge amount of confidential documents and materials, including the design ideas, technical parameters, secret algorithms, source programs, source codes, and other core secrets of many confidential communication equipment systems. In May 2016, Huang Yu was executed.
The full version of the "Top 10 Counter-espionage Cases" special exhibition was broadcast
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