Focus interview丨Be alert! It's shocking that Taiwanese spies follow academic exchange routines
Compatriots on both sides of the strait are close to each other, and it is a good thing to promote cross-strait exchanges and increase mutual understanding.
Many of these people who frequent cross-strait exchanges are officials, experts, scholars, or media people.
In Taiwan, these people have many advantages because of their identities and professions, and they have the opportunity to learn some information about the mainland.
Precisely because of this, some of them have become tools for Taiwan's intelligence agencies to collect intelligence on the motherland's mainland.
Cai Jinshu, a Taiwanese.
In the early years of studying in the mainland, he began to engage in cross-strait exchange activities in the 1990s and accumulated a wealth of contacts in the mainland.
In 2013, a person who claimed to be Cai Jinshu’s school sister contacted him, hoping to invite him to a show on Fuxing Radio. This school girl is called Guo Jiaying.
Under Guo Jiaying's careful management, the two have become acquainted with each other day by day.
At this time, Guo Jiaying began to show interest in Cai Jinshu's activities in the mainland.
Cai Jinshu said: “As long as she finds that I have a more important meeting in the mainland, she will call me and ask me who she met at the meeting, or what information she has, and what policies the mainland has.”
Cai Jinshu knew everything about Guo Jiaying's problem.
Once in a chat, Cai Jinshu told Guo Jiaying that he had a "Southern Taiwan Cross-Strait Relations Association" because it had not been able to operate because of lack of money.
Guo Jiaying was very interested when she heard it and said that she could help.
Soon, Guo Jiaying found a venue for the association and paid a rent of 360,000 Taiwan dollars.
She suggested to Cai Jinshu many times that the association must only conduct cross-strait exchanges.
From this time on, Cai Jinshu felt that Guo Jiaying might not be as simple as a military radio host, and it must have something to do.
Cai Jinshu didn't guess wrong. Guo Jiaying is not a school girl, but a spy in the Taiwan Military Intelligence Bureau.
Although it feels strange, Cai Jinshu did not reject the other party's kindness. After the federation started, Guo Jiaying became one of them naturally, but she still wanted an identity.
After discussing with members of the association, Cai Jinshu gave her the title of office director.
Guo Jiaying has made a wishful calculation, and it is not expected that Tsai Ing-wen will come to power in 2016, and cross-strait relations have become colder, and few mainland scholars have come to Taiwan for exchanges.
The money was spent but no effect was seen. Guo Jiaying was not reconciled. She discussed with Cai Jinshu and wanted to set up an electronic media so that scholars in mainland China could make an appointment if they had trouble.
Cai Jinshu thought the idea was good, so this electronic media called Eagle Media was established, and Guo Jiaying became the executive director here.
At this time, Cai Jinshu not only lost the dominance of the platform, but also received a lot of money from the other party.
Knowing that he could not stop, Guo Jiaying began to clearly assign tasks to Cai Jinshu.
Cai Jinshu said: "She values the future Taiwan policy and hopes that I will contact senior leaders in cross-strait decision-making, or the personnel changes of senior leaders in cross-strait decision-making."
Cai Jinshu's association and Eagle Media became a platform to cover Guo Jiaying's collection of mainland intelligence, and he himself became an intelligence collector.
Tsai Jinshu is still a little worried at first when traveling between the two sides of the strait all year round.
Guo Jiaying kept instilling a thought into him: "Just give me what you hear, see, and what you get. These things are public, and there are no secrets."
It is said that Cai Jinshu collected public information, but every time he contacts scholars and officials on the mainland, Cai Jinshu also has an important task to obtain private information from the mainland.
When Cai Jinshu comes into contact with them, he will deliberately emphasize to the mainland personnel that he supports cross-strait reunification, so that the other side will be disarmed, actively participate in and contribute to the platform.
If a scholar is willing to participate in the forum or submit a paper, Cai Jinshu will give Guo Jiaying's WeChat to him, and Guo Jiaying will ask him for the paper.
After Guo Jiaying established contacts with these mainland personnel, on the one hand, he sought out available personnel, and on the other hand, he arranged topics for them according to his needs.
It is difficult for these contributors to guess where their articles went in these days when they were waiting for publication.
After these articles were sent to Guo Jiaying in various forms, she would sort them out and then submit them to the MIB. After the relevant departments of the MIB had digested them, she would post these articles on the Eagle Media website.
In the past few years, Cai Jinshu has reported to Guo Jiaying about more than 50 people including personnel from mainland Taiwan-related departments, important think tank experts, and well-known media reporters, and has successively collected more than NT$5 million from spy agencies.
Although the tricks were high to cover secrets openly and illegally to cover legally, Cai Jinshu still failed to cover them thoroughly.
In July 2020, Cai Jinshu was sentenced to four years in prison for espionage.
It is worth noting that scholars like Tsai Jinshu who frequently travel between the two sides of the strait have become the target of frequent development and application of Taiwan's intelligence agencies.
Shi Zhengping, born in 1960, Taiwanese.
Before the incident, Shi Zhengping was a professor at Taiwan Normal University. He also had an unknown identity as an operator of Taiwan's spy agency.
Rich experience and personal connections, coupled with professional qualities, allowed Shi Zhengping to enter the vision of Taiwan’s National Security Bureau.
In 2005, Shi Zhengping's teacher invited him to a dinner. Two people from the Taiwan Eurasian Foundation also came to the dinner. The contact person was Zhou Deyi.
Zhou Deyi's real name is Zhou Shengyu, a spy in Taiwan's "National Security Bureau".
After establishing contact with Zhou Deyi, the two gradually got acquainted with each other, and Zhou Deyi began to ask Shi Zhengping.
Shi Zhengping was asked to report to him when he came to the mainland and help him collect some materials.
And Zhou Deyi told Shi Zhengping that the information he collected must only be reported to him alone.
Because his father was persecuted by Taiwan's intelligence agencies, Shi Zhengping has always been in fear.
In 2010, Shi Zhengping received an invitation letter from a mainland science and technology research institute. After Shi Zhengping reported this information to Zhou Deyi, he came to the mainland.
During the exchange process, the organizer provided some materials, which Shi Zhengping found useful at the time.
Shi Zhengping always thought about Zhou Deyi's needs. After the meeting, he approached the organizer's leader and said that there were too many materials to finish, and he wanted to borrow the hotel to study it at night. The other party agreed.
When he returned to the hotel that night, Shi Zhengping photographed these documents, and after he returned, he gave them to the "Guoan" unit in Taiwan.
In the process of searching Taiwan's "National Security Bureau", Shi Zhengping slowly understood Zhou Deyi's needs.
The focus is on searching for conference materials, evaluating policies, and collecting business cards.
Every time Shi Zhengping gets information that Zhou Deyi thinks is important on the mainland, Zhou Deyi can't wait to make an appointment with Shi Zhengping to return to Taiwan.
In the process of searching for information, Zhou Deyi paid Shi Zhengping based on the importance of intelligence, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
Shi Zhengping was struggling. In order to get more money, he began to use his professional knowledge to take the initiative to write reports for Taiwan's "National Security Bureau."
Shi Zhengping not only came to the mainland to collect intelligence for the "National Security Bureau," but also introduced mainlanders who came to Taiwan to Zhou Deyi.
In 2013, a senior think tank in Mainland China wanted to communicate with Taiwan, and Shi Zhengping immediately told Zhou Deyi the news.
After this advanced think tank visited Taiwan for three consecutive years, Zhou Deyi received the whole process under Shi Zhengping's arrangement.
In 2017, Shi Zhengping felt Zhou Deyi's dissatisfaction, saying that he was accused by the chief and had no performance in his work.
At that time, Shi Zhengping was communicating with a certain mainland ministry and commission stationed in Taiwan. He introduced Zhou Deyi and asked Zhou Deyi to enter the Taiwan office of a mainland ministry and commission as the secretary of the association for a meeting and exchange.
From 2005 to 2018, Shi Zhengping went to the mainland to collect intelligence as a Taiwanese scholar, covering politics, economy, cross-strait relations, policies and regulations and other fields. It was obtained through public arbitrage, spying, money buying, material temptation, etc." Data and content of the Belt and Road Initiative, Asia-Pacific Strategy, etc., received a total of 1.6 million Taiwan dollars in spying funds.
The intelligence collected by Taiwan's intelligence collectors on the mainland seems to be public, but these are all strategic intelligence that Taiwan's intelligence agencies cannot directly obtain, and they often contain decision-making information such as the direction of the mainland's future Taiwan policy.
If Taiwan's intelligence agencies know the situation in advance, the mainland's Taiwan policy will be affected.
Here we also warn the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party authorities that Taiwan independence is a dead end, and no amount of information collected can change the historical trend of the unification of the motherland.
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