Unlike past spy war dramas, "Opportunity" aims at Taiwanese spies who are hiding around ordinary people. They do not have glamorous appearances and endless money, nor do they have modern high-tech eavesdropping tools. They are middle-aged people who live in poverty and are also worried about their food and food...
"Similar desolation in old age"
People often say that film and television works originate from life. The reality of Taiwanese spies is actually exactly the same as the plot in the TV series. The "miserable" situation of Taiwan's spies can be traced back to the 1960s.
On February 13, 1960, a US military aircraft airdropped a five-man spy team named "Lan Zhonghua" on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau , one of which was named Yue Zhengwu.
Even years later, when Yue Zhengwu recalled it, the experience was still vivid in his mind.
The US military plane they were riding crossed the Himalayas from the Pakistan Pass and entered Qinghai at an altitude of 46700 meters. The spy was thrown one by one. "The temperature below is minus 43℃. The most important mission code is C.B.R, which is to reconnaise the CCP's extraordinary combat capabilities, because the US U-2 aircraft could not reconnaise these at that time, so we must obtain information in person."
Later, another group of "Rose" spy team airdropped to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was discovered by the People's Liberation Army, which affected the "Lan Zhonghua" group. After a fierce gunfight, one person in the "Lan Zhonghua" group died and three people were captured, and only Yue Zhengwu escaped. As for how embarrassed the escape process was, Yue Zhengwu's memory was a little blurred. In the end, he was surrounded and captured, seriously injured.
Yue Zhengwu said: "They (the people arrested) said I was captured in early March, and I forgot. I only remember that when I woke up in the hospital, they were celebrating Labor Day."
After serving sentences and reforms in the mainland, Yue Zhengwu was released in 1987 and returned to his hometown Zhoushan, Zhejiang to meet his brother. In 1992, he was officially allowed to return to Taiwan. Yue Zhengwu thought that after experiencing such a tragic situation, he would be remembered by the Taiwanese authorities and receive the compensation he deserved. But in fact, he waited for the opposite result.
"My file only has the section from the 'Information Agency' to the 'Security Agency', and the later things are all blank." It turned out that after , China and the United States established diplomatic relations in in 1979, the so-called "China-US Joint Intelligence Center" located in Taiwan was laid off that year, and all the files were taken away by the US side. Yue Zhengwu's youth was "stolen" in vain.
In his later years, Yue Zhengwu lived a miserable life. After many struggles, he barely got some pension. He said that what made him unacceptable and understandable, and even felt disappointed that when they returned to Taiwan, they were treated ruthlessly by Lee Teng-hui authorities. "I feel that my life is not worth it, it is not worth it. We devote our lives. Why do we fight for and whom do we fight for?"
Yue Zhengwu's experience condensed the mark of the times left by those Taiwanese spies.
Previously, Taiwanese media quoted information disclosed by officials from Taiwan’s “Military Intelligence Bureau” that since the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan in 1949, more than 3,000 spies have “since their lives”. If the spies involved in the case and arrested and detained in the mainland are counted, the number of people may exceed one double.
Most of these people have similar life experiences: they are brainwashed and go to the mainland to become spies, and after arriving, they are arrested and sentenced. During their sentence, Taiwan declares their "death". During the period of serving his sentence, the spy thought he had fallen to the bottom of his life, but he never expected that the real miserable thing was that he returned to Taiwan after his sentence but was not recognized. He seemed to have completely evaporated from the world, and his late years were miserable, and he was asking for wages everywhere.
"poor, stingy and miserable"
Taiwan spies do not only exist in the past, but also in the present, and even beside you and me. "poor, stingy and miserable" is a common feature that this group of people inherits.
According to a netizen who claimed to be "Chu Xiaolu goes around the world", he once contacted a very suspicious person and had reported it to the national security department.
Judging from its narrative text, "Chu Xiaolu goes around the world" may be a photographer. At one time, he met a Taiwanese who said he admired him for a long time and added him on WeChat. Because this person is very skilled, this netizen jokingly called him a side dish.
Later, Xiaocai often liked his circle of friends and would praise him from time to time. Once, Xiaocai took the initiative to look for him, hoping that he would take a photo of the military-civilian integration science and technology achievement exhibition. In order to convince him to take photos, Xiaocai also said that he could make money first and then give photos to show his sincerity.
"Chu Xiaolu goes to the world" pretended to agree to take photos of him first and asked for the price: "I said 3,000 yuan, but he thought it was expensive, so he could only give 1,000 yuan, and said it was the first time to cooperate, it was cheaper first, and there were more opportunities in the future."
Through this real experience, "Chu Xiaolu goes to the world" summarized the Taiwanese spies in his eyes, and there were several common characteristics:
First, the salary and benefits are indeed not good, "The price of the spy industry is so low."
Second, Taiwan lacks talents, "How come any cat or dog can be a spy? It's easy to be seen through by outsiders like me."
Third, the spy is not far away, it is indeed right next to us.
CCTV's " Focus Interview " program disclosed Taiwanese spy cases in 2018 and 2020. These Taiwanese spies have different characteristics, but to a certain extent they still inherit the common characteristics of "poor, stingy and miserable".
Among the several cases disclosed in 2018, one of the person involved was Xiaozhe, a second-year college student who majored in machinery at a key university. In 2011, he went to Yishou University in Taiwan to study and exchange. A woman who claimed to be Xu Jiaying kept caring about him and successfully seduced him. After Xiaozhe returned to the mainland, he helped her collect various secrets on national defense science and technology. Xu Jiaying seemed quite generous about Xiaozhe's difficulties in life, but when Xiaozhe asked her for help, she only gave him 5,000 yuan.
In 2014, the national security department found Xiaozhe and found that during the more than three years he had been dating Xu Jiaying, he provided nearly 100 pieces of information involving China's defense science and technology industry, but only received a total of 45,000 yuan in compensation. What's even more bizarre is that after Xu Jiaying's true identity of a Taiwanese spy was exposed, people found that the female spy was 16 years older than Xiaozhe.
From the Taiwan spy case disclosed by CCTV, we can see that in recent years, in order to penetrate the mainland, Taiwanese spies have used money bribery, emotional corruption, pornographic seduction, and online hookup to manipulate relevant people in mainland China, and they can be said to be doing everything they can.
Regarding the characteristics of these Taiwanese spies, the CCP’s party history expert and CCP’s hidden front history scholar Ye Xiaoshen summarized: "Scattered espionage behavior no longer plays according to the old routine, no longer steals concrete intelligence, but is more like disorderly clamoring and fighting in groups."
It can be seen that Taiwan’s intelligence governance (intelligence and public security) system is also chaotic and disorderly. With the development of the situation, the living environment of these spies who steal secrets in the mainland will only become more and more difficult.
The originator of Taiwan's intelligence governance system can be traced back to the " Zhongtong " and " Military Control Commission " during the Kuomintang's mainland period. Until 1949, after Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, these minions spread across the country also scattered in birds and beasts.
Ye Xiaoshen said that looking back at history, you will find that after Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, the Kuomintang spies faced a state of more monks and less porridge on the island, and the Taiwan intelligence system began to decline, at most it was a pawn of the United States. "If the United States still needs this system to act as a bridgehead to win the fire for itself, then after the publication of the three joint communiqués of , it was marginalized." This is also the fundamental reason why Taiwan spies are "poor, stingy and miserable".