CHINESE OFFICIAL SAID EXPOSER TO CIA TURNCOAT LA TIMES/WASH. POST - 5 SEPTEMBER 86

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100160028-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: September 5, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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THE WASHING
Chinese Official
Said Exposer of
CIA Turncoat
A senior Chinese intelligence of-.
ficer, reported by foreign news
agencies this week to have defected
to the West, is the source who
tipped the United States last fall to
the 33-year espionage career of
CIA turncoat Larry Wu-tai Chin,
according to a government official
familiar with the case.
Yu Zhensan, once head of the
foreign affairs bureau of China's
Ministry of State Security, was
spirited to the United States "within
a couple of weeks, one way or the
other," of Chin's arrest Nov. 22,
said the official, who refused to be
identified.
The source said that Yu has been
debriefed by U.S. intelligence of-
ficials and given a new identity.
The official refused to explain
why Yu chose to flee China or
where he is living. A French news
report that Yu is in Taiwan has
been denied by a government
spokesman in Taipei.
Yu, said to be the son of two
prominent Chinese revolutionaries
and in his late 30s, was one of the
top officials in China's recently re-
vamped intelligence bureau, for-
merly called the Ministry of Public
Security. His post reportedly gave
hint wide knowledge of Chinese es-
pionage activities abroad, including
the names of Chinese agents and
suspected agents from other na-
tions working in China.
Chin, a 63-year-old retired CIA
translator and intelligence officer at
the time of his arrest, committed
suicide in his Virginia jail cell last
February, two weeks after being
convicted of spying for the Chinese.
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