SPYING ON CHINA IS TAIWAN'S ROLE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240120-5
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 16, 2003
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: June 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For Release 2003/11/04: CIA-RDP69B00369R000200240120-5
SPYIRG ON CST
IS TAIWAN'S ROLE
Operations Reveal Secrets:
Reds Have Long Hidden
1pies Use Parachutes
planting spies in Communist
China has never been much of a
problem for the Nationalists.
They can easily be parachuted:
have also been userr as aispawn
points for agents who were put
ashore at various coastal ren-
dezvous points in speedy "air-
sea rescue boats:' Some sources
here insist the. boats were op-
TAIPEI, Taiwan (UPI) -
Taiwan is the Peeping Tom of
Asia, where spies play a'deadl3
game of China-watching witi'
torture and death to the losers
On this Chinese Nationalise
Island, science and human court
age have pried apart the'bam
boo ; curtain to, reveal secret;
the Chines Communists havti
hidden for years.
,"We know everything that'!
going on in the mainland milt
tartly and economically," a Na-
tionalist Intelligence source
said, "and there's not much tak-
ing place politically that we
don't know about."
The Nationalists use t a lat-
have agents planted throughout
China and swear their intel1i
genre network reaches deepp in
to :`the inner workings of the
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personals _ rodess al a film..
At least riff e -2 s
have been lost over the main-
land,, presumably due to engine
fail,}ires that forced the,, pilots
down to lower altitudes, where
they were destroyed by Com-
munist fighters or missiles. ~
The riots In Macao earlier
this year` were a bitter blow to
the, Nationalists, who had been
usi3'igg the Portuguese 'colony 'in
the? Pears Rive Estuary as an
escape route for their agents.
many Chinese in Taipei be-
lieve the riots in Macao were
set off to force the Portuguese
authorities to halt the exodus
of mainland "refugees."
majority of these peo-
ple are refugees," an intelli-
erated by American crews,
The Nationalists operate a
sophisticated, high powered
communication system on Tai-
wan. Communist radios, tele-
types and Morse casts are con-
stantly monitored and the con-
tents analyzed by intelligence
experts.
The bulk of the intelligence
work is carried out at a secret
Taiwan airfield where the U-2':
are based. In a fenced, anc
guarded remote section of the
field are the hangars and thi
living quarters of the crews.
Every pilot is thoroughl2
screened by Chinese security
officers before joining the
squadron. The first of these
pilots were sent to Okinawa
where they were trained by the
United States Air Force.
Once they join the elite U-2
squadron, the pilots stay with it
until death or retirement. All
are officers and'most of them
majors in the' Nationalist Air.,
Force.
Pilots Become Bald
The flights are long, some-
times as much as_ 12 hours, and
the cramped, high altitude en-'
vironment has had the unusuall
effect of causing many of the
pilots to lose all their hair. In
some cases the hair has grown
back In; others are permanent-
ly bald.
"These reconnaissance planes
gave us the first tipoff when
the nuclear testing ground was
being developed in Sinkiang
province," an authoritative
source explained.
"And they are the reason that
Washington has been able to
accurately forecast every [Chi-
nese Communist] nuclear blast
long before Peking revealed
them.
Other spy planes operating
at lower altitudes and well out-
side Communist china's three-
mile limit are equipped with
"cross-eyed" cameras that pho-
tograph hundreds of square
miles of coastline and interior
areas for intelligence use.
"The Reds would never be
able to mount a surprise, mass
attack on the Nationalist posi-
tions," an American source at
g~ehce officer said. "But there
were also dines when important
agents who were trappedpon the
mainland sneaked across the
bor er to Macao, claimed they
were refugees anndr were then
spirited back-here.
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