Taiwan‘s Military Intelligence Major General Yue Chi-chung (right) and Colonel Chang Chao-ran (left), who retired from the military and were infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party as double agents, are now being prosecuted.
On Saturday, February 20, Taiwan’s Taipei District Prosecutor’s Office (DPP) said that four retired Taiwanese military intelligence officers, including a general, have been indicted for allegedly being absorbed by the Chinese Communist Party’s Guangdong Provincial State Security Department’s intelligence officers in Taiwan to develop organizations and collect intelligence for the CCP. The four double agents are retired Major General Yue Chi-chung of Taiwan’s Military Intelligence, who was formerly the Director of Military Intelligence 5, and retired Colonels Chang Chao-ran, Chou Tien-tzu, and Wang Da-wang. The depth of Beijing‘s infiltration of Taiwan is deeper than the outside world can imagine.
The case was a self-investigation by the Military Intelligence Agency, which found the anomaly and referred it to the national security unit for investigation. Former Defense Minister Yan Defa said, “If the crime is established, it is a disgraceful act.”
The investigation by the Taipei District Attorney’s Office found that the four men formed a spy network to collect and provide Beijing with important confidential information about Taiwan’s Military Intelligence Agency intelligence, personnel, and the location of its informants and activities.
The Central News Agency reported that the case began in 1999 when a retired Taiwan Military Intelligence colonel surnamed Lu was arrested in a wreck on the mainland, and Zhang Chaoran was entrusted to rescue him and met “Mr. Wei” who was then absorbed and instructed to introduce retired MI personnel to the mainland.
He was a Taiwan spy for the Military Intelligence Agency in Beijing, but later became a Communist spy for the Chinese side to develop organizations in Taiwan.
In 2012, Chaoran Zhang and Zhou Tianci arranged for Yue Zhizhong to meet with Chinese Communist Party state security officials in Macau. During the meeting, not only did Yue admit his identity as a military intelligence officer, but Zhou Tianci also identified the identity of the intelligence officer whose photo was provided by the Chinese side, and was later given an honorarium of HK$6,000 by the Chinese Communist Party state security officials.
The investigation found that during 2013 and 2017, Zhang Chaoran, Yue Zhizhong, and Zhou Tianci traveled to mainland China one after another to meet with Chinese Communist Party state security officers and introduce Wang Dawang, who had served in military intelligence. Wang Dawang is suspected of providing personal information about members of the Military Intelligence Agency to the Chinese Communist Party’s State Security.
In 2016, Chang Chaoran and Zhou Tianci asked Yue Zhizhong to travel to the mainland to meet with Chinese Communist Party state security agents in Guangzhou, where they received Food and lodging and travel hospitality.
According to the indictment released by the Taipei District Attorney’s Office, Zhang Chaoran, Zhou Tianci and Yue Zhizhong served in the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense, and Yue Zhizhong was responsible for intelligence gathering and dispatching behind enemy lines in mainland China for a long Time.
The Taipei prosecutors filed charges against the four retired MI officers under Taiwan’s National Security Law and National Intelligence Law.
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