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📕 The Spy Within: Larry Chin and China's Penetration of the CIA, Tod Hoffman - https://amzn.to/3xFics6

1985 was a devastating year for American intelligence - so much so that it was dubbed ‘the year of the spy’. 14 Americans were arrested that year on charges of espionage - and those were just the ones that were caught. From the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and the Navy, American intelligence institutions were thoroughly compromised.

The majority of these men and women spied for the Soviet Union. The Communist behemoth, only 6 years away from its ruin, remained the greatest enemy and chief rival of the United States of America. It is perhaps for this reason that someone like the subject of today’s video managed to sail undetected for 3 decades, spying on behalf of a sleeping giant in the Far East.

Larry Wu-tai Chin worked for a comparatively obscure branch of the CIA known as the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, or FBIS. He moved unseen, feeding his handlers information that greatly helped the Communist Party of China to identify traitors and inform its US foreign policy.

He was a scholar and a brilliant linguist. He was unassuming and perceived as a loyal, hard working employee. It was these traits that made him, as some would claim, the perfect spy.