Spying for the People : Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967
ISBN: 9781107017870 | 1107017874
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 2/28/2013
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In this fascinating account, Michael Schoenhals reveals the domestic covert operations of Mao's public security organs through a detailed examination of the cultivation and recruitment of their agents, their training and their operational activities. These revelations, based on hitherto classified documents, enrich our understanding of modern China's troubled social history.
Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge t... MORE
Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight, and it is now common knowledge t... MORE
| Public security: the institutional framework | |
| Agents by category: informers, enablers, and guardians | |
| The recruitment base: where utility trumps class | |
| Finding the right man for the job: operational profiling | |
| Recruitment | |
| Training and tradecraft: behind the covert front | |
| Agent running: Beijing rules | |
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