Book contents
- Eyes and Ears
- Eyes and Ears
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part IAgent Recruitment
- Part IICapacity Building
- Part IIIBest Practice
- Part IVFrom the Agent Work File
- Part VFrom the Agent Personal File
- Introduction
- 14Operational Brief: On the Recruitment of Yang X
- 15Yang X’s Offer of Service
- 16Private Correspondence Monitored
- 17Give and Take: Apologies and a Nanny
- 18Agent Validation: Professional and ‘Leftist’
- 19Declining Performance? A Two-Day Brush-Up Course
- Part VIComponent Chiefs: Feedback and Direction
- Part VIICrisis Management
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
19 - Declining Performance? A Two-Day Brush-Up Course
from Part V - From the Agent Personal File
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2026
Book contents
- Eyes and Ears
- Eyes and Ears
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part IAgent Recruitment
- Part IICapacity Building
- Part IIIBest Practice
- Part IVFrom the Agent Work File
- Part VFrom the Agent Personal File
- Introduction
- 14Operational Brief: On the Recruitment of Yang X
- 15Yang X’s Offer of Service
- 16Private Correspondence Monitored
- 17Give and Take: Apologies and a Nanny
- 18Agent Validation: Professional and ‘Leftist’
- 19Declining Performance? A Two-Day Brush-Up Course
- Part VIComponent Chiefs: Feedback and Direction
- Part VIICrisis Management
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Agent 151 started out being operated by the Third Section of the First Division to work on the democratic parties. In 1961, we discovered that Agent 151 and counter-revolutionary element Zhao XXX, who had been plotting to restore the old order, taught in the same middle school. In order to keep all of Zhao’s ongoing activities under surveillance, on 3 July 1961 we borrowed Agent 151 for operational use. Judging from what has been learned in this case from our direction of Agent 151 for more than five months, and the intelligence we have been able to develop, Agent 151 has already been able to connect with the target, maintains a positive relationship with him, and is able to obtain information on his activities.
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- Eyes and EarsSecret Agent Work in Cold War China, pp. 177 - 186Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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