Summary of David Wise's Tiger Trap

By IRB Media

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#1 For almost half a century during the Cold War, the world was focused on the global espionage battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The duel between the CIA and the KGB, portrayed in countless books, films, and news stories, captured the public imagination.

#2 China and America are in an uneasy embrace, and they constantly spy on each other. Chinese intelligence has been aimed at stealing American nuclear weapons data, and American intelligence has been trying to penetrate Chinese counterintelligence.

#3 The MSS, China's equivalent of the CIA, is organized into a dozen bureaus. The first bureau operates for the most part inside China, but it also recruits people who are heading overseas for study, business, or vacation.

#4 The MSS is only one of many Chinese intelligence agencies that spies on other countries, including the United States. China has been in the spy business for some twenty-five hundred years.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822518506

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

For almost half a century during the Cold War, the world was focused on the global espionage battle between the United States and the Soviet Union. The duel between the CIA and the KGB, portrayed in countless books, films, and news stories, captured the public imagination.

#2

China and America are in an uneasy embrace, and they constantly spy on each other. Chinese intelligence has been aimed at stealing American nuclear weapons data, and American intelligence has been trying to penetrate Chinese counterintelligence.

#3

The MSS, China's equivalent of the CIA, is organized into a dozen bureaus. The first bureau operates for the most part inside China, but it also recruits people who are heading overseas for study, business, or vacation.

#4

The MSS is only one of many Chinese intelligence agencies that spies on other countries, including the United States. China has been in the spy business for some twenty-five hundred years.

#5

The Chinese approach to espionage is different from that of other countries. They send in a thousand tourists to collect a single grain of sand, which they then use to gather intelligence on the beach.

#6

China does not use dead drops, as the CIA did with the KGB, to signal the whereabouts of documents. Instead, it relies on informal contacts to collect intelligence. It co-opts some of the thousands of students, tourists, business travelers, and trade delegations who visit the United States every year.

#7

China has used sex to espionage and blackmail foreign diplomats. The most bizarre example of this is the case of Bernard Boursicot, a French diplomat in China who