In March 1996, Taiwan was about to hold its historic first presidential election ceremony, and along with the ceremony, various Taiwan independence activities broke out in the Taiwan region, and the mainland held a large-scale military exercise in the Taiwan Strait in response to Taiwan independence acts, and the Taiwan Strait crisis began.
Between March 8 and 15, the mainland fired a number of Dongfeng 15 ballistic missiles into two waters at the northern tip of Taiwan's southern tip, and the Taiwan region also entered the highest alert.
The international community has speculated whether Chinese mainland will use this to recover Taiwan in one fell swoop. A few days later, however, the Taiwan Strait crisis ended with thunder and rain.
The main reason for the abrupt end to the cross-strait confrontation is that the Taiwan side has obtained relevant military intelligence from the mainland in advance and taken corresponding preventive measures, and the person who leaked the information is none other than The mainland's major general, Liu Liankun.
Liu Liankun's identity is not simple, he is a major general in the mainland and Taiwan, and his arrest is also the largest espionage case since the founding of China.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > the upper and lower lines of the spy network</h1>
A soldier who can become a major general on the mainland, if he does not say that his future is immeasurable, cannot be regarded as obscure, so why should he take the risk of betraying state secrets and become a traitor to the country?
The key figure who put Liu Liankun on the path of traitors was also a senior officer of the People's Liberation Army, Shao Zhengzong.
Shao Zhengzong did not perform well in the army and was keen on the dog and fly camp, so the military leaders did not pay attention to him, and this neglect also fostered his resentment. Frustrated, he found Zhang Zhipeng, a Taiwanese businessman.
This Taiwanese businessman is not an ordinary businessman, he used to secretly help Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau personnel spy on intelligence in Hong Kong during his business in Hong Kong, and he was also closely related to Yin Zongwen, the director of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau.
Shao Zhengzong found Zhang Zhipeng and told him about his depression in the military in recent years and wanted Zhang Zhipeng to help immigrate for himself.
At this time, Zhang Zhipeng had just established with Yin Zongwen the guiding ideology of "entering the mainland and establishing a stronghold", and Shao Zhengzong's complaint could be said to have sent a pillow to the sleepy him.
Zhang Zhipeng made a condition for Shao Zhengzong, as long as he helped him steal military intelligence, he would pay for him to immigrate.
Since then, Shao Zhengzong has repeatedly taken advantage of the opportunity of returning to the mainland from Hong Kong to deliver important information to Taiwan on the Chinese mainland of the transfer of personnel from major military regions, and internal speeches by senior generals.
Because of the frequent transmission of information and the valuable content, in 1992, Taiwan's Military Intelligence Service also awarded the invisible spy a commendation.
After Shao Zhengzong reached retirement age, he could not steal classified information, and wanted to make the Taiwan side fulfill its promise and arrange for him to emigrate to foreign countries, but Taiwan's Military Intelligence Agency proposed an additional condition:
He must develop a high-level successor and continue the work of passing on information.
This successor cannot be an ordinary military pawn, and must be on the same level as Shao Zhengzong to ensure that the intelligence chain is not demoted.
After a long search, in September 1992, Shao Zhengzong finally sent a message to Taiwan's Military Intelligence Agency that he was willing to develop his former superior, Liu Liankun, the protagonist of our article today, as an intelligence spy.
On November 27, 1992, Liu Liankun and Shao Zhengzong came to Guangzhou together to prepare to meet Zhang Zhipeng.
Liu Liankun and Da Wei were extremely vigilant, and several people came to Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou, Liu Liankun was in front, and Da Wei followed closely behind, until they came to the sparsely populated mountaintop, they opened the door and engaged in dialogue.
Liu Liankun was very satisfied with The attitude of DaDawei personally coming to the mainland to contact himself, he said: "When you come to the mainland to meet with me in the south, the risks you will take are equal, we can sit on an equal footing and talk about problems, and I have also taken risks when you have taken risks." ”
As the leader of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, Da Da gave Liu Liankun $20,000 and two bottles of imported wine as a greeting gift, and at the same time he offered very tempting conditions:
As long as Liu Liankun can help him obtain military intelligence, they will pay Liu Liankun a monthly salary of 35,000 US dollars, bonuses will be paid separately, and Taiwan's Military Intelligence Agency will continue to take care of Liu Liankun's life after retirement.
In addition to the treatment, the huge is probably promised, and the conditions given to Liu Liankun will not be lower than the level of the major general of the Nationalist Army.
In this way, Liu Liankun became a soldier who enjoyed the treatment of two major generals in Chinese mainland and Taiwan, and also became the core point of the intelligence network of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau.
Will Taiwan really live up to its promises? The answer, of course, is no.
Shao Zhengzong, who introduced Liu Liankun as a spy, became a lesson for the past; Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau created him with unqualified immigration documents, and if Shao Zhengzong wanted to immigrate, he had to smuggle himself from Fujian to Taiwan.
And smuggling is not only extremely risky, but also implicates the family, Shao Zhengzong vetoed, unwilling to smuggle.
In this way, Taiwan's Military Intelligence Agency only symbolically gave Shao Zhengzong a severance payment of $70,000, and then he no longer asked about his life, and Shao Zhengzhong was deceived by Taiwan and could only bite his teeth and swallow into his stomach.
Liu Liankun did not know the story of Shao Zhengzong's deception, and the Taiwanese side was worried about the damage to its credit and also intended to hide it from him.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > profiting from the thunder pool</h1>
Liu Liankun, who fell into the trap of interests, provided Taiwan with a large amount of classified information, Chinese mainland the PLA's procurement of armaments and plans to recover Hong Kong, all of which he sent to Taiwan.
In 1992, Liu Liankun reported to Taiwan that China had purchased 40 Su-27 fighters and 5 sets of C300 anti-aircraft missiles, and in 1993 Liu Liankun sent a message that China had purchased 14 Su-30 fighters for 700 million US dollars.
Liu Liankun leaked classified information on arms procurement, and the list goes on.
But among the leaks he leaked, the most valuable was the strategic policy formulated by China's leaders on January 13, 1993.
The content of the strategic policy belongs to the secret documents of the organs, and outsiders cannot know, while Liu Liankun informed Taiwan of all the key points of China's strategic deployment in the form of a handwritten copy.
He elaborated that the focus of China's strategic deployment has been adjusted to the Sino-Indian border on the southeast coast and the South China Sea, and this strategic adjustment has become a reference for Taiwan's military deployment.
This content means that the Sino-Indian issue has not yet been resolved, and the issue of the Nansha Islands on the southeast coast is also being disputed, and in Taiwan's view, this information is extremely time-sensitive.
Because Liu Liankun provided a number of valuable pieces of information, the Taiwan side gave him a total of NT$25 million in bonuses. In the 1990s, it was a huge amount of money.
Liu Liankun, who was carrying a huge amount of money, became more and more arrogant, and simply took confidential documents home and took pictures at night.
One night, his wife discovered his espionage, was horrified, threatened him with suicide, and only superficially appeased his wife, and privately bought a property in Beijing to use as a place for collecting intelligence.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > abandon the bottom line and the final conscience</h1>
From the book of Former Member of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, We can understand that Liu Liankun seemed to have a little conscience at the beginning. His sanity was not yet completely insane, and he still retained a trace of attention to the righteousness of his homeland.
At a time when Lee Teng-hui vigorously pursued Taiwan independence, Liu Liankun was also dissatisfied, believing that he was acting as a Spy for Taiwan to help Taiwan independence elements, that splitting the country was a mistake, and that he had to withdraw from the work of passing on intelligence in anger.
How could Taiwan be willing to discard such a good chess piece, and Guo Wei immediately asked Zhang Zhipeng to relay it to Liu Liankun, promising him that Taiwan's military and intelligence units must be opposed to Taiwan independence.
"Although the DPP has won, we must not only see the negatives, but should understand that this is an inevitable process of democratic political development" and "we must strengthen our confidence and determination to create a bright future for the future of the country."
Such lies sound particularly lame, but Liu Liankun accepted this statement half-heartedly in the face of huge interests, continued to pass on intelligence, lowered the bottom line of his behavior again and again, completely betrayed his conscience, and was mad.
In 1996, Taiwan's Taiwan independence behavior became more and more rampant, and Chinese mainland held large-scale military exercises to warn Taiwan.
Three months before the exercise, Liu Liankun pocketed all the exercise plans and provided them to Taiwan.
The plan shows that the budget for the exercise is more than 4 billion yuan, and if Taiwan independence acts hurt China's sovereignty, the exercise can be transformed into a real military operation at any time.
Liu Liankun not only reported the exercise project in advance, but also explained to Taiwan that the bottom line of the exercise was "live fire, crossing the middle line of the strait, using submarines, and capturing outer islands."
When they received the information, the people of Taiwan were immediately panicked, and the Taiwan independence elements immediately sent a request for help to the United States.
After the US military intervened, the Chinese mainland had to change its original plan, and the missiles were not allowed to fly over the main island of Taiwan, and warships were not allowed to cross the middle line of the strait and could not capture the outer islands.
The contents of these changes also allowed Liu Liankun to pass word for word into the hands of the Taiwan military, and one of these pieces of information became the fuse for his future arrest.
Liu Liankun said that the missiles used in the mainland military's exercises were "empty-packed bombs" and had no lethality, but Lee Teng-hui immediately openly stated this secret after receiving this news.
Very few people knew about the use of "empty package bombs" in the exercise, which was considered a core secret, and as soon as the matter came out, the mainland military immediately realized that there were spies at the top of the army.
It can be seen from this that Taiwan does not care whether Liu Liankun is alive or dead, and the previous rhetoric is just using him as a pawn.
When they realized that the military was hiding spies, the intelligence department of the Chinese mainland immediately sent a message to Yin Weijun, a spy on his side in Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau.
In the documents and archives of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, Yin Weijun found the documents of the Central Military Commission of the CPC and the communication documents of the major general departments provided by Liu Liankun, and quickly locked the direction of the investigation.
The mainland's public security departments followed closely, and within a few days, they overheard the contents of Liu Liankun's mobile phone contact with Zhang Zhipeng.
In 1999, Liu Liankun was arrested, interrogated and sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life, and his son was sentenced to five years in prison.
The wife who threatened her husband with suicide was resentful of her husband's treason, and also hated his involvement in his son, refusing to claim her husband's body.
The stolen assets earned by Liu Liankun's knife tip licking blood were destroyed in an instant, his wife and children were separated, his family was destroyed, and the intelligence system established by Taiwan on the mainland was also completely destroyed.
Shao Zhengzong, who has long since retired, has also been arrested and held accountable.
Because there were two traitors in the army who leaked secrets, the military immediately learned a lesson and held a "work conference on the hidden struggle of the whole army" in the army to strengthen the education and concealment of counter-espionage to a greater extent.