China disclosed the espionage case and Japan "confessed itself"
2024-08-07
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China's Ministry of State Security, which is in charge of counterintelligence, released the story told by a spy discoverer late last month, but did not mention when or where the incident took place.
According to a report by Japan's Kyodo News on August 5, Japanese government officials are paying attention to this incident and speculate that it may have occurred in 2017. That year, a total of six Japanese went deep into Penglai, Shandong and Wuzhishan areas in Sanya, Hainan, China in the name of "investigating hot spring resources" and carried out illegal survey activities, and were arrested by the Chinese side.
According to the tweet "How I Discovered a Spy - An Autobiography of a Spy Discoverer" released on July 23 by the WeChat public account of the Ministry of State Security, the narrator has two jobs. During the peak tourist season, he is a tour guide. During the off-season, he becomes a taxi driver, taking all kinds of tourists to every corner of the tourist town. One day, a young lady asked the driver about chartering a car, and soon "placed an order" and agreed to meet at the hotel the next day. With the lady, there were three other people, including a foreigner. The driver drove in the direction they pointed, and the road became narrower and narrower. The destination was remote and there were no attractions nearby. At this time, the driver began to have doubts.
According to the driver, there was a truck parked at the destination, and the group unloaded more than 20 boxes of goods of various sizes, including a lot of wires and generators. After communicating with the truck driver, the taxi driver learned that these people had been working here for a few days, saying they were here to explore the hot springs.
What puzzled the taxi driver was that there were no hot springs nearby, and why foreigners were allowed to come during the survey. The driver suddenly remembered that there was an important scientific research base nearby, so he paid special attention to their every move. When he heard the conversation about the hidden route, the narrator was full of doubts.
The driver felt something was not right and decided to test them on the way back. He chose a different route from the way he came. The young woman who contacted the chartered car soon discovered it and asked nervously where they were going. The taxi driver, who had received national security education during tour guide training, felt that the group was suspicious and the idea that they were spies lingered in his mind. Finally, the driver called the reporting hotline.
After investigation by the national security authorities, it was found that this group of people did have problems. Without approval, they carried out illegal surveys in many provinces of my country, stole a large amount of sensitive basic geographic information and confidential geological data, and threatened my country's national security. The relevant personnel were cracked down by the national security authorities in accordance with the law.
Kyodo News previously quoted relevant sources as saying that 80 confidential documents, including maps and photos of military facilities in Penglai City, Shandong Province and Sanya City, Hainan Province, were found in the laptops and USB flash drives of six Japanese nationals, and that "(they) obtained measurement data in places that were likely to touch on confidential information."
Editor: Chen Hanlu
Editor: Pan Sangyu
