The Taiwan Strait crisis between the mainland and Taiwan in 1996 can be described as the big news in the world at that time; on the one hand, the Taiwan authorities frequently threatened internationally: Taiwan's intelligence agencies successfully plotted against many senior officials on the mainland and learned a large amount of mainland military deployment and top-secret intelligence.
On the other hand, when Taiwan's intelligence agencies inspected the intelligence sent by spies sent to the mainland, the officials present without exception broke out in a cold sweat. Speaking of this issue, we must also elaborate on what kind of specific intelligence Taiwan spies gathered during the period of crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
In 1995, Taiwan regional leader Lee Teng-hui openly advocated Taiwan as the Republic of China in the United States, flatly denied cross-strait relations between one country, two systems, and claimed to break the current state of diplomatic isolation and make the world accept the Republic of China, that is, Taiwan. Under the impetus of Lee Teng-hui, a wave of "two Chinas" separatism has also been set off on the island of Taiwan.
After learning of Lee Teng-hui's plan, the mainland resolutely launched a resolute struggle against separatism and independence in the political, military, and diplomatic fields, and the PLA has also continued to hold several large-scale military exercises near the Taiwan Strait in order to deter Taiwan and foreign forces that want to interfere in China's internal affairs.
However, with regard to the mainland's military deterrence, the Lee Teng-hui Administration not only did not restrain itself, but on the contrary continued to advocate the theory of the mainland threat, claiming that "the mainland wants to unify Taiwan by force and wants to turn Taiwan into a sea of fire."
At this time, most of the media opinion on the island of Taiwan was almost controlled by the Lee Teng-hui administration, and some voices of reason and justice on the island could not get a chance to speak out.
In 1996, the sound of "Taiwan independence" on the island of Taiwan could be described as a wave higher than a wave. However, Lee Teng-hui's voice did not win the support of the US side, and the US Government directly threatened not to support Taiwan independence, nor to support two Chinas, nor to support Taiwan's entry into the United Nations.
The tough attitude of the US Government has also suppressed Lee Teng-hui's arrogance to a certain extent. However, the Fact that the United States does not support Taiwan's independence does not mean that they support Taiwan's return to the embrace of the mainland; politically, the United States has a superficial bias toward the mainland, but in terms of military actions, the United States frequently sends warships and warplanes to patrol the Taiwan Strait, also in response to the mainland:
I do not support Taiwan independence, but I also do not support your reunification of Taiwan, and the best outcome is to maintain the status quo.
After Lee Teng-hui launched the wave of "Taiwan independence," in order to prevent the mainland's military moves, Lee Teng-hui asked the government to allocate a large amount of funds to Taiwan's intelligence departments, and there were only two tasks assigned to Taiwan's intelligence departments: To investigate and clearly understand the mainland's military deployment and relevant top-secret information.
Therefore, under the authorization of the Taiwan authorities, Taiwan's intelligence departments have continuously dispatched a large number of agents to the mainland to carry out espionage activities, mainly carrying out sabotage operations on the mainland (this is a task set by Taiwan's intelligence departments themselves) on the other hand, and collecting intelligence on the other hand.
When Taiwan's intelligence departments dispatched a large number of spies to the mainland, they themselves believed that the island of Taiwan should now be full of spies from the mainland, so it is necessary to carry out several large-scale "clearances" within Taiwan. After several large-scale clearances, Taiwan's intelligence services did not catch any mainland spies or get relevant information, but were ridiculed by the Taiwanese people.
They claimed that the mainland was listening to the mobile phones of the Taiwan people and senior officials, so the government urgently ordered The Taiwan officers to turn off their mobile phones, but facts have proved that everything done by taiwan's intelligence departments is completely useless, the mainland has not listened to taiwan officers and senior officials on their mobile phones, and there are very few mainland spies who have mixed with the Taiwan authorities.
For this reason, Taiwan's intelligence department was once attacked by public opinion, and some reasonable people also took the opportunity to ridicule the officials of Taiwan's intelligence department as a group of "useless things." In order to save the bad comments of public opinion, Taiwan's intelligence departments have sent a large number of spies to the mainland to collect intelligence.
Therefore, the fact that Taiwan's intelligence departments have sent a large number of spies into the mainland is not only an order from the Lee Teng-hui administration, but also a decision made to reverse the department's wind assessment.
Then, after the spies sent by Taiwan's intelligence departments entered the mainland, in what capacity did they enter the mainland, and how did they plot against senior mainland officials to obtain top-secret intelligence? In this article, let's take a closer look at the intelligence war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
After China implemented reform and opening up, it opened the country's door to trade with the world, so a large number of Taiwan businessmen entered the mainland to start business. Based on this, Taiwan's intelligence agencies have turned a large number of Taiwan businessmen into non-staff personnel of intelligence agencies, given them a large amount of funds, and promised to use some of the funds at will.
If Taiwan businessmen obtain top-secret intelligence, the intelligence departments can reward Taiwan businessmen with generous bonuses according to the secrecy of the intelligence. As a result, these Taiwan businessmen (intelligence department staff) disguised themselves as Taiwan businessmen and entered the mainland to steal intelligence, while some Taiwan businessmen were engaged in intelligence gathering, and their main business was ordinary businessmen.
These spies basically use the identity of "Taiwan businessmen" as a cover. However, there is also an interesting phenomenon in this: Although most regular Taiwan businessmen have been given the status of spies by the intelligence departments, most of the intelligence they have collected is some photos of buildings and troops that can be seen everywhere in our country, and others have basically not collected valuable intelligence.
But even so, Taiwan's intelligence departments will still pay a certain amount of remuneration, so a large number of regular Taiwan businessmen have been born, they take pictures everywhere in addition to normal business every day, they do not think that they serve the Taiwan government, they only think that they are cooperating with them, the government's money is so easy to earn, why not enjoy it.
Therefore, most of the information conveyed by regular Taiwan businessmen is information of no value. And Taiwan businessmen also understand that if they really listen to the intelligence services and bribe china's senior officials for them, then the end is likely to be a bad ending.
Taiwan in the 1996 period was not as united as Lee Teng-hui imagined; although Taiwan independence prevailed on the island, the people only shouted in their mouths that after the parade, they should do whatever they wanted; most of the people did not care about whether Taiwan would become independent or not, they only cared about whether the money in their pockets was enough to spend.
In addition, many of Taiwan's Taiwan independence campaigns are paid to the people by party figures, so in fact, the Taiwan independence campaign is actually the Taiwan authorities spending money to hire the people, but the people rarely want Taiwan independence from the bottom of their hearts.
Returning to the main theme, regular Taiwan businessmen are perfunctory to the Taiwan authorities, while those regular intelligence personnel who are dressed in the shell of Taiwan businessmen are trying to sell their lives for the intelligence departments.
So, how did the mainland deal with the infiltration of Taiwan's intelligence personnel? At this time, the country is still in the stage of economic development, with the deepening of reform and opening up, China has given birth to a large number of groups of people who have done business and made a fortune, and the widening gap between the rich and the poor has also made the thinking of some officials begin to become corrupt, and they have begun to be interested in eating, drinking, and enjoying, and they also have ideas about personal interests.
As a result, under the heavy bribes of some Taiwan businessmen's spies and the beauty schemes, some high-ranking officials were trapped by Taiwan spies. However, looking at these senior government officials and mainland people who have been seduced by Taiwan, they all have one characteristic: their careers are frustrated, their businesses are failed, and they are resentful.
In the face of the deception of Taiwan spies, the vast majority of senior officials on the mainland can guarantee excellent party spirit and loyalty and take the initiative to report to the intelligence departments.
As a result, Taiwan's espionage activities have not gone smoothly, and many of the spies sent out have been caught. And what we want to talk about now is not these captured spies, but a small number of successful espionage operations against high-ranking officials.
First, let's take a look at the overseas battlefield of Taiwan's espionage operations; the Taiwan authorities have not only sent a large number of intelligence personnel into the mainland to engage in espionage operations, but have also sent quite a few personnel to various parts of the world in order to plot against the Chinese people studying and working abroad.
There was once a Chinese girl studying in the United States, because she was studying a more sensitive scientific professional research, so she was targeted by Taiwanese spies and specially sent a "handsome guy" to contact her, the purpose of which was to make the woman fall in love and become a Taiwanese spy.
The handsome man in Taiwan took advantage of the characteristics of "high appearance" and "more gold" (in fact, it is a typical rich and handsome man) to successfully coax the girl into hand; when the handsome man saw that the time was ripe, he disclosed his identity to the woman and asked the woman to help him steal the secret intelligence of the mainland of the motherland, and because the woman loved the man deeply, she actually agreed to this traitorous behavior, and when she returned to the motherland to engage in scientific research work, she actually helped the Taiwan authorities steal more than a dozen copies of China's scientific research reports.
Eventually, the woman's behavior was discovered by her colleagues, and later, she was imprisoned for espionage, and the woman's handsome boyfriend quickly escaped after learning the news that the woman had been arrested.
These spies not only seduce the sons and daughters of China who are studying abroad, but also seduce many scientists who are doing scientific research abroad, but according to statistics, it is rare for Chinese scientists working abroad to become spies in Taiwan, mainly because "money" and "color" are not too attractive to these scientists (although Taiwan's income is much higher than that of the mainland, scientists are very principled).
In addition, after detecting Taiwan's espionage activities, the government of the host country directly arrested these spies and publicized the stupid espionage behavior of the Taiwan authorities.
As a result, during the Lee Teng-hui period, the Taiwan authorities were subjected to joint reprimands from many countries almost every month, and even the United States severely rebuked the Taiwan authorities and threatened them not to engage in intelligence work in the United States.
After talking about foreign countries and then returning to China, first of all, regular Taiwan businessmen, while doing business on the mainland to make money, while doing perfunctory intelligence collection by the Taiwan authorities, gradually the intelligence departments gave up the proposal to encourage Taiwan businessmen to collect intelligence, and they could only absorb and train regular spies to carry out activities on the mainland.
For example, most of the intelligence collected by these spies only talks about the "threat from the mainland" and ignores everything else.
The Taiwan authorities are more and more afraid, and the more they are afraid, they will send more spies, and these spies will continue to collect the mainland threat theory, which is why the Taiwan authorities have fallen into a vicious circle, and their sense of fear of the mainland has also become greater and greater, so big that the Taiwan authorities believe that only by hugging the US thighs can they overcome this sense of fear, which is also the fundamental reason why Taiwan frequently and unconditionally curry favor with the United States in modern times.
However, this does not mean that Taiwan spies have not gathered useful intelligence, and some of these Taiwan spies have successfully plotted against senior chinese military officials, such as a major general (Liu Liankun), a colonel (Shao Zhengzhong) in the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army, and a major general (Liu Guangzhi) in the PLA Air Force.
The information provided by these three people directly led to the fact that in 1996, when the Taiwan naval exercise was in progress, the Taiwan authorities Lee Teng-hui directly claimed that the shells used in the mainland military exercise were all empty warheads (empty packaged bullets), and they did not dare to act against Taiwan.
It was also because of Lee Teng-hui's remarks that the effectiveness of China's military exercises against Taiwan was discounted, which attracted the attention of the mainland's security departments; therefore, with the intervention of the mainland security departments, these corrupt officials who stole state intelligence and were trafficked to Taiwan were quickly dismissed, and a large number of Taiwan spies placed along the coast were also arrested, which directly caused extremely serious losses to Taiwan's intelligence departments.
Major Generals Liu Liankun and Shao Zhengzong were arrested and later secretly executed by a military tribunal.
According to analysis, after China's national security departments intervened, more than a thousand spies in Taiwan were caught, and these spies confessed to the plans of the Taiwan authorities, so Taiwan fell into an unprecedented crisis of international public opinion, and the Lee Teng-hui government was also subjected to a crisis of trust between the international community and the people on the island.
Some people say that the deeper reason for Lee Teng-hui's downfall is actually the serious failure of Taiwan's intelligence work, which directly discredited him.
The reason why his successor, Chen Shui-bian, was able to succeed him was also because he used his attack on Lee Teng-hui to gain the trust of the people, which gave Chen Shui-bian the opportunity, because Lee Teng-hui's words directly caused Taiwan's 7 years of meticulous layout to be in vain, which also seriously hurt the vitality of Taiwan's intelligence agencies.
Since then, many of the intelligence personnel sent to the mainland have been closely monitored before the operation has even begun.
Then, speaking of this, some people may ask whether Taiwan will bite back and say that the mainland does not respect human rights when it monitors Taiwan businessmen. In fact, the mainland government has done a very good job in this regard, and the mainland rarely embarrasses Taiwan businessmen who come and go; after all, they are all compatriots, after all, blood is thicker than water, but on the contrary, they are encouraged to carry out cross-strait economic and trade cooperation.
As for the surveillance of some Taiwan businessmen, the NSA will verify and analyze their itineraries on the basis of the identity of the businessmen who have entered the country, and through extremely cautious investigation, they will come to the conclusion that if Taiwan businessmen have a tendency to spy, they will carry out follow-up and surveillance for a period of time.
Therefore, since 1996, few espionage cases have occurred on the mainland than the cases of Liu Chengkun and Shao Zhengzong in 1996.
The Taiwan side has also gained less and less information, and even Taiwan's intelligence agencies have retreated to the second place, ordering that as long as the equipment of the People's Liberation Army is photographed, it can get a bounty.
It can be seen from this that Taiwan's intelligence departments have ceased to be their former glory, and with the development of the times, they have entered the situation of the Western Mountains of Nippon.
Today's Taiwan intelligence system is in a state of moribundity, the quality of spies has seriously declined, and many spies have not even passed China's customs inspections.
A Taiwanese spy once revealed:
Now few people are willing to become spies, the reason is that there are many problems in the operation of departmental funds, many of the funds allocated by the government have been carried into the pockets of department bosses, and the atmosphere in the system is extremely poor, the phenomenon of corruption is very serious, and the promotion of members is extremely difficult.
At that time, many soldiers dreamed of entering our institutions, but now taiwanese soldiers are reluctant to enter our institutions, because once these soldiers come to us, it means that their political future will come to an end in advance.
Because here, ordinary soldiers can only reach the rank of lieutenant colonel at most, and only a small number of talents are likely to break through this restriction and become colonels.
In addition, today's Taiwan government is becoming more and more dependent on US intelligence, and they would rather spend several times the funds to the United States than spend a small amount of money on the island's intelligence services.
The funniest thing is that now our staff is not to gather intelligence, but to become bodyguards, and our best agent here is actually responsible for escorting a senior officer who is about to retire. This has also made many members reluctant to continue to work, and even many good agents have now resigned to do business or become mercenaries.
As Taiwan's intelligence services continued to fall silent, Taiwanese spies began to become history. In fact, since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the intelligence contest between the two sides of the strait has never stopped, whether it was Dai Kasa of the Republic of China at that time, or the successive heads of the Military Intelligence Bureau, they have never taken advantage of any advantage in the intelligence contest with the mainland.
Dai Kasa, who was known as the head of the intelligence, eventually fell under the hands of Li Kenong, the great intelligence master of the mainland. After Li Kenong, the main opponent of China's intelligence departments is no longer the Taiwan authorities, because in our eyes, Taiwan's intelligence departments have lost their qualifications to deal with the mainland intelligence departments.
The reason why the Taiwan authorities always boast about how powerful their intelligence departments are and how well-known intelligence collection is in the world, but the military command agents they see are rarely able to succeed under the eyes of the mainland intelligence agencies.
In addition, the reason why the intelligence work of the Taiwan authorities gives people the impression that they have learned a lot of intelligence from the mainland, but they have never had any impact on the mainland, in fact, the deepest reason is that the intelligence collected by Taiwan is a lot of relatively marginal secret intelligence, and even the top-secret documents collected are some documents that do not have much to do with each other.
In fact, the mainland is not an hindsight, but because many of these intelligences are deliberately shown to the Taiwan authorities by the mainland, such as various mainland threat intelligence, to a large extent, to make the Taiwan authorities afraid, and only if they are afraid, they dare not make any extreme moves.
Of course, the mainland will not restrict Taiwan businessmen because of the behavior of the Taiwan authorities in sending spies, and we welcome those Taiwan businessmen to come to the mainland of the motherland to have a look at it more; as long as the people of Taiwan support the "one-China principle," we all welcome it, and we also welcome the Taiwan compatriots' contributions to the reunification of the motherland.
Compatriots on both sides of the strait are all family, and Taiwan compatriots are welcome to come to the mainland to have a look!