Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent weeks Taiwan has even been willing to advertise its network of loyalists and informers on China's mainland. Breaking with precedent, Taipei has published the names of some 20 "martyrs,"-spies and agents who lost their lives while operating in the People's Republic. A Taiwan government-recruited mainland spy named Wang Hung, 30, surfaced in Taipei after having served a year as an undercover operative in China. Purportedly a political instructor in the Red army stationed in Yunnan province, Wang told TIME'S Bing Wong that he formed clandestine cells among urban youths...
Taipei claims that Wang is one of 10,000 secret agents on the mainland involved in such activities as sabotaging production, forming secret anti-Peking cells, and passing copied documents on to Taiwan's couriers. The number of op eratives is probably exaggerated; nonetheless, Taiwan's secret agents can claim credit for some sensational exposes. Notably, they brought to light the letter written by Mao Tse-tung to his wife in the midst of the Cultural Revolution in which Mao complained about the personality cult that was being built around him and sharply criticized his then heir-apparent...
Hong Kong is also a lively espionage center. Among the 300 to 400 overseas Chinese who daily visit the mainland from the British colony, there is an occasional Taiwanese agent on his way to making contact with secret Nationalist sympathizers. Similarly, off the coast of Fukien province, opposite Taiwan, Nationalist patrols sometimes "capture" Communist agents posing as ordinary fishermen and subject them to intensive intelligence grilling...
...results are trustworthy. In fact, some "intelligence" about mainland activities published by Taiwan so perfectly fits its anti-Communist propaganda that it might have been manufactured by imaginative p.r. agents in Taipei. Stiil, Peking considers Taiwan's espionage serious enough to issue periodic warnings about the presence of spies. Recently Canton radio reported sabotage by a "scoundrel" in a gas plant and chastised the factory's deputy director for his lack of vigilance. Some visitors to China have been taken to prisons where they have seen "counterrevolutionaries" and other "enemies of the people"-many of them, presumably, guilty...
...lava rock near the island's east shore. Among the most militant of the Arabs, the Libyans boggled Pantellerian minds by announcing plans to build a 2,000-bed tourist center, complete with a heliport on the island. Some suspicious souls, both at home and on the Italian mainland, are afraid that Pantelleria may be invaded by Arab tourists carrying something more dangerous than cameras. A Social Democratic member of Parliament recently demanded that the government explain why Libya had purchased "the most strategic point on the island." With a look over both shoulders, three Communist senators asked...