{"id":278,"date":"2008-12-22T20:45:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T12:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-05-24T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T01:54:09","slug":"chicom-penetration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"Penetrated by ChiCom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/security_0.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><i>Liberty Times<\/i> reported on Dec 20 that Chinese agents in Taiwan might have been involved in pre-alerting the Chinese military of impending reconnaissance missions by reconnaissance-pod carrying ROCAF F-16.  The paper said there had been several instances where the Chinese military was able to pre-position its fighters near the reconnaissance route, thus disrupting the reconnaissance mission or even forcing the mission to abort.  It won&#8217;t be easy to verify the accuracy of the report.  But I am sure this is not the first time Chinese agents were suspected of penetrating ROCAF security:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/security_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The document above, dated 1966, was drafted in the wake of two incidents of suspected security breach in Project TACKLE.  Paragraph 2 shows that, as early as 1964, ChiCom agents had been suspected because there were indications that the Chinese military might have been notified of an impending U-2 mission before the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Paragraph 7 points out that the most vulnerable point is the telephone communication:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/security_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>So for the F-16 case, if the Chinese military is able to launch the countermeasure aircraft <b>before<\/b> the recon F-16 takes off, then we have good reasons to believe that the communication link is being tapped, or worse, there are &#8220;moles&#8221; inside ROCAF.  Otherwise, anybody with a mobile phone sitting outside Hualien AFB can easily tip off the ChiCom in real time.  But don&#8217;t blame aircraft spotters.  We don&#8217;t ban all cutting knives simply because one person has used a knife to commit murder, right?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it possible that ChiCom receives no pre-alert but makes predictions solely based on data collected from previous F-16 recon missions?  This could explain Chinese prior awareness of U-2 missions forty years ago, as shown in Paragraph 8 below.  But I doubt this also applies in the F-16 case.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/security_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Times reported on Dec 20 that Chinese agents in Taiwan might have been involved in pre-alerting the Chinese military of impending reconnaissance missions by reconnaissance-pod carrying ROCAF F-16. The paper said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,5],"tags":[42,92,44,41,43],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-sq","category-u-2","tag-35th","tag-hualien","tag-tackle","tag-u2","tag-blackcat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taiwanairpower.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}