Liu Liankun

Liu Liankun (simplified Chinese: 刘连昆; traditional Chinese: 劉連昆) (January 1933 – 15 August 1999), was a Major General (Shao Jiang) in the People's Liberation Army who provided the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan with secret intelligence about the status of missiles from the People's Republic of China (PRC). During the 1996 missile crisis, the ROC Ministry of National Defense notified the public that the missiles launched by the PRC actually carried unarmed warheads. This tipped off Beijing that Taipei had a high-level mole working on the mainland. Liu, a top Chinese military logistics officer, was arrested, court-martialed and executed in 1999.[1][2]

Taiwan confirmed that Liu was one of its spies in 2018.[3]

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References
  1. "PLA general helped prevent a war". Taipei Times. 2006. Retrieved 2006-03-03.
  2. Kim, Benjamin Kang (September 14, 1999). "China Executes Two For Spying for Taiwan". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 1, 2017. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  3. Lo, Tien-pin; Chin, Jonathan (March 27, 2018). "MIB memorial hall reopens after two-year renovation". Taipei Times. The bureau also disclosed that Liu Liankun (劉連昆), a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) major general, executed by Beijing in 1999 for espionage, was among the fallen honored at the shrine.
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