From: li@sicvax.enet.dec.com (Tong-Kang Li)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: Re: Taiwan News (late)
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:48:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Nov5.130341.15575@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, tchuang@cello.ecn.purdue.edu (Tim D. Chuang) writes...
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>|		THERE ARE ALSO MANY "CELLS" OVERSEAS			|
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>			Reported by
>		Tong Ching-fong & Cheng Tong-hua
>	(published in The Journalist, May 27-June 3, 1991 in Taiwan)
> 
>Activities of campus spying are not only found in Taiwan; they have also
>extended across the Pacific Ocean to America.
> 
>On May 24, a student returning from the U.S. called and told a story about
>campus spying activities in the Washington D.C. area.
> 
>This student, who did not identify himself, said that in the Washington
>D.C. area there were foreign students who came from military schools or the
>police academy in Taiwan.  These students were on government financial aid
>and most of them carried a mission from the Taiwanese government to spy on
>other students on campus.  They had to hand in reports to a certain division
>of the CCNAA (Coordination Council for North American Affairs) providing
>information regarding activities of local Chinese organizations and student
>organizations, in particular, the activities of the Taiwanese Student
>Associations.
> 
>They earned from $500 to $600 per month as compensation for their reports.
>In the past, this kind of operation was carried out secretly; the spies were
>invisible, like "cells." The secret operation became exposed when a senior
>military student was graduating and looking for his successor.
> 
>The student who provided the above information also indicated that those
>missionary students can be identified by the different passports they
>have--their passports have brown covers while regular students have green
>passports.
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Yes, this is the story I believe much more convincing about on-going KMT's 
spying activities on the American campus.

In the 80s or earlier, this type of activity has put many KMT's opponents
on so-called the "blacklist". Many people can not go home because of this.
The blacklist has greatly been reduced to just two persons recently (It was 
three persons and Ministry of Interior refused to reveal who are those two 
persons). I wonder whether today's "spying" activity is more like 
"understanding" since TI taboo and blacklist has been lifted so what else 
KMT is going to "spy" and make harm. I wish KMT should reduce unnecessary 
spying activity just beacuse of their "old bad habits" :-). This reminds me 
that the recent "spying scandal" about the US Department of State pulling out 
Bill Clinton's passport record for his visit to ex-Soviet Union during the 
60s. Certainly all of these are not very pleasant.

Again Mr. Chuang can not use this story to accuse people who disagree with 
him are on the KMT's payroll in his previous article. He has to provide the 
evidence who is on the KMT's payroll then make accusation.