Book contents
- Eyes and Ears
- Eyes and Ears
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part I Agent Recruitment
- Part II Capacity Building
- Part III Best Practice
- Part IV From the Agent Work File
- Part V From the Agent Personal File
- Part VI Component Chiefs: Feedback and Direction
- Introduction
- 20 On a Case Officer’s Contact Reports: ‘Why Never Anything Negative?’
- 21 On Courses of Action Proposed
- 22 Whose Collection Requirements Should Enjoy Priority?
- Part VII Crisis Management
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
22 - Whose Collection Requirements Should Enjoy Priority?
from Part VI - Component Chiefs: Feedback and Direction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2026
Book contents
- Eyes and Ears
- Eyes and Ears
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Part I Agent Recruitment
- Part II Capacity Building
- Part III Best Practice
- Part IV From the Agent Work File
- Part V From the Agent Personal File
- Part VI Component Chiefs: Feedback and Direction
- Introduction
- 20 On a Case Officer’s Contact Reports: ‘Why Never Anything Negative?’
- 21 On Courses of Action Proposed
- 22 Whose Collection Requirements Should Enjoy Priority?
- Part VII Crisis Management
- Glossary
- Notes
- Index
Summary
Like the previous item, this one (dating from late December 1963) consists of two directly related memoranda documenting operational component chiefs addressing higher echelons. In this case, two HUMINT components located in separate divisions are each asking their division superiors to mediate and resolve a dispute over who actually ‘owns’ the Harbin Public Security Bureau’s prized Agent 151 (Yang X, whose closed Agent Personal File provided the records translated in Part V above) and whose information needs the agent was henceforth to prioritise. History is never irrelevant in disputes like this one and how far back in the past one is able, or chooses, to go in one’s argumentation can often make all the difference when it comes to staking a convincing claim to something in the present.
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- Eyes and EarsSecret Agent Work in Cold War China, pp. 206 - 208Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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