Larry Wu-tai Chin

The native form of this personal name is Chin Wu-tai. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
In this Chinese name, the family name is Chin.
Larry Wu-tai Chin
Born
Chin Wu-tai

(1922-08-17)August 17, 1922
Peking, Republic of China
DiedFebruary 21, 1986(1986-02-21) (aged 63)
Manassas, Virginia, United States
Cause of deathSuicide
Burial placeAlta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California, US
Alma materYenching University
SpouseCathy Chin[1]
Children3[2]
Espionage activity
Allegiance China
AgencySAD
CIA (as a mole)
Service years1944-1985

Larry Wu-tai Chin (simplified Chinese: 金无怠; traditional Chinese: 金無怠; pinyin: Jīn Wúdài; August 17, 1922 – February 21, 1986)[3] was a Chinese Communist spy who worked for the United States Government for 37 years (1944–1981), including positions at the U.S. Army and the CIA, while secretly being a mole for the Chinese Communist Party's intelligence apparatus from the very beginning.[4] He kept passing classified documents and secret information to the People's Republic of China even after his retirement, until he was finally exposed in 1985.

Chin was one of China's most valuable foreign intelligence agents of the entire Cold War period; he supplied the PRC with top-secret information on American foreign policy initiatives relating to China, as well as biographical profiles of CIA agents. In 1970, he passed CIA documents to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai regarding President Richard Nixon's desire to open relations with the PRC; Mao therefore knew about Nixon's intentions well in advance of his diplomatic overtures, which allowed him to alter his policy (such as the volume of anti-American rhetoric in the state-controlled Chinese press) in order to extract the maximum political concessions from the Americans.[4] Chin was a naturalized U.S. citizen.[5]

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  3. ^ Qian Jiang (15 January 2019). "我父亲燕大同学金无怠是世界情报史上的"超级谜团"". The Paper (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b Eftimiades, Nicholas (1994). Chinese Intelligence Operations (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 32–38. doi:10.4324/9781315037448. ISBN 978-1-315-03744-8.
  5. ^ Marcus, Ruth; Pichirallo, Joe (December 6, 1985). "Chin Believed Planted in U.S. as Spy". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-10-23.