Recently, The Epoch Times reported on the defection of a former official at the Chinese embassy in Australia. Chen Yonglin, disclosed that about 1000 Chinese spies were operating in Australia. This has caused various countries to reconsider the overseas intelligence activities of the CCP. Actually, the CCP doesn’t limit monitoring to overseas Chinese people’s conversations and activities; within China, there are also spies and greedy informants. I wish to share my personal experience when I was a student in college as evidence of this.

At the time, I was preparing for graduation from a college in Northeastern China. Because it was a respected college, many employers came to my school to recruit students. I was an English major and was used to having face-to-face interviews with these recruiters. But in May or June, someone suddenly started calling our female students’ dorm, claiming to be a recruiter, and asking specific students for interviews. Many of my classmates happily accepted, but when they arrived at the meeting place, they discovered that this was not a typical recruiter.

First was the meeting place. Usually, employers choose to meet in a fast-food restaurant near the school and the recruiter would be a man around 30 years old who interviews one person. But, this “mysterious” employer wanted to meet “elsewhere.”

Secondly, this recruiter knew a lot about the interviewee. He had, what appeared to be documents with detailed information about the student, including her date of birth, address, school records, and family information. He was even quite clear about things that others did not know, such as her living with her boyfriend off campus instead of in school.

Over ten girls in my department received a call from this recruiter, all of which were equally mysterious. I was a class officer at the time, and although I had never received one of these calls myself, I suspected that they were bad people, since they only called female students and they always met off campus. Therefore, I called the party secretary of our department, asking him if he knew this recruiter. He said that he did not and told me to notify all the students and advise them not to meet with this person again.

About a week later, a student from my class said that her cousin told her that these people weren’t what I suspected. They were from the Chinese National Security Bureau, so naturally, they would appear different from other employers’ recruiters. Moreover, they were recruiting students through the college and did not inform the departments, which had caused some confusion. Only then did I awaken. They were from the National Security Bureau, no wonder they knew so much about us. There must have been people providing them with information at the college. Later, I heard that after the Tiananmen Massacre, the National Security Bureau had created the sixth division to monitor college teachers and students. When my classmate spoke of her cousin, who worked at the National Security Bureau, she mentioned that his income was good, but he was always worried and even afraid, because if he didn’t do an assignment well, his life would be in danger.

Chinese spies are pitiful. For their survival, some of them make a living by monitoring others, caught between living a life of lies or being guilty of a crime. Others who do the monitoring are living a covert life for money, but this money comes from the common people they are monitoring. I hope more Chinese people with a conscience will take a stand like Chen Yonglin and Hao Fengjun and reveal the crimes committed by the CCP, who uses the people’s own sweat and blood to persecute them. Then, the Chinese populace will awaken to the truth.

Please also see CCP Spy Recruitment Tactics Exposed as Defections Continue and Chinese Immigrant in Melbourne Asked To Spy for CCP.