The Sino-US espionage war has intensified, and after the recent announcement of the detection of two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) espionage cases, China's Ministry of State Security official Weiwei issued an article on the 5th pointing out that the CIA's first intelligence officer to die overseas was killed in China 73 years ago (1950).
The article pointed out that the CIA headquarters has a marble wall covered with black pentagrams, and each five-pointed black star on the wall represents an "intelligence officer" who died overseas. The first black star, the first intelligence officer to die overseas, was named Makenan, who was a spy operating in China as the deputy consul general of the United States in Dihua (now Urumqi).
The Ministry of State Security told Makenan's story: Markan graduated from the physics department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in radio, meteorology, photography, organic chemistry and other majors, and was proficient in Spanish, French, German, Russian, etc. Marknan joined the U.S. Army in 1942 to engage in meteorological research, and from 1944 to 1946, as a member of the 10th Weather Squadron of the U.S. Army, he went to Dihua, Xinjiang, China, to run secret missions.
Maknan's specialist was favored by the CIA, recruited him to become an internal spy, and after receiving training, he was sent to Xinjiang to run a mission. At that time, Macnan was publicly identified as the deputy consul general of the U.S. consulate in Dihua. "Macnan used this status to meddle in China's affairs and cultivate espionage and political bandit forces in the northwest region; On the one hand, taking advantage of Xinjiang's proximity to the Soviet Union, it secretly installed intelligence monitoring equipment such as air pressure, earthquake, and radiation in Xinjiang to detect Soviet atomic bomb intelligence."
After Xinjiang was ruled by the CCP, Maknan withdrew from Xinjiang and tried to find a base to continue espionage. In April 1950, he was killed and buried in place after clashing with armed people in the homes of herders in Tibet.
The article said that Macnan had raised a large number of spies and political bandits in Xinjiang and other northwest regions, and provided them with financial and weapons support. Before fleeing Xinjiang, he also specially met with one of the spy leaders, Wu Siman, and asked Wu to bring his spies and continue to confront the CCP. In February 1951, Usman was captured. In April 2, Usman and other spies and bandits were executed. The CIA's espionage forces in Xinjiang were "resolved" in July 1951.
In fact, Macnan's story has been circulating in forums and communities in China over the years. The first star on the CIA wall had no name until 2010. According to the content of the book "Snowy Spy - US Tibet Policy and Its Secret Operations", it was not until 2010 that the CIA's official website first published the article "Remembering the CIA Hero - Douglas Macnan", people knew for sure: Makenan was a CIA intelligence officer engaged in secret intelligence activities on the Chinese frontier under the cover of the deputy consul of the US Department of State in the Dihua Consulate in China.
