December 19, 2023

PRC seeks Defector with Chinook

US$15 million offered for 2 hours work. Need helicopter pilot's licence. Discretion advisable.

Anonymous has kindly provided the following offline:

"A Taiwanese pilot, allegedly planning to defect to the People's Republic of China (PRC), was reportedly offered $15 million USD to deliver a CH-47 Chinook helicopter to the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). As part of the defection scheme, the individual was supposedly set to land the Chinook on a PLAN vessel in the Taiwan Strait. 

Along with the money offered, the pilot was also apparently assured by Chinese officials that his family would be given safe passage [assuming Taiwanese Security permits it!] out of Taiwan should a potential conflict between the country and China erupt." 

Source: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/taiwanese-pilot-planned-ch-47-defection-to-china-reports 

Pete Comment

The PRC would dearly like to reverse engineer a Chinook, for PLA use and export.

Predictably PRC intelligence (MSS and PLA Intel) are very active in Taiwan.  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intelligence_activity_abroad#Taiwan 

This effort is assisted by millions of Taiwanese living and working in the PRC since 1949. 

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