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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