Word: yunnan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 who had been sent to the countryside to work on agricultural communes...
...Taipei by General Yeh Hsiang-chih, is recruiting and maintaining contact with its agents in China's tightly controlled society. One useful technique in getting new agents is to exploit traditionally close family relationships by approaching prospects through their relatives. A major area for contacting potential spies is Yunnan province in China's far Southwest, near the "Golden Triangle" of Burma, Thailand and Laos, where remnants of a Kuomintang army have operated since the end of World...
...about the B.C.P. and where it gets its support. Some observers in Rangoon fear that the offensive represents a Chinese military thrust into the area. At the very least, the AK-47 rifles, howitzers and machine guns used by the B.C.P. could have come only from China's Yunnan province just across the border. According to U.S. State Department estimates, the vast majority of rank and file soldiers are ethnic Burmese. But most of the officers and cadres down to the company level are probably ethnic Chinese trained in China. Still, nobody can say for certain that they...