The price of betrayal..........................

 On November 22, 1985, the FBI's senior intelligence expert, Jin Wudai, was suddenly arrested. This spy, who had been lurking for more than 40 years and was considered to be the most influential in the history of Sino-US relations, also surfaced.

Jin Wudai was born in Beijing in 1922 and studied at the Department of Journalism of Yenching University. During the Anti-Japanese War in 1944, Jin Wudai got a job as a secretary and translator at the US Army Liaison Office in Fuzhou. Because he had access to some US military information, Jin Wudai was targeted by the Chinese Communist Party and then turned against the CCP. Like many naive intellectuals of that era, Jin Wudai was moved by the CCP's utopian ideals and began to provide the CCP with US military intelligence. In 1949, Jin Wudai transferred to the US Consulate General in Shanghai. After the fall of Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with the US Consulate General.

In 1952, he was recruited into the "Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service" under the CIA, and officially became a member of the US intelligence agency. In 1965, Jin Wudai became a US citizen. During this period, Jin Wudai was awarded many times by the CIA for his diligence. Therefore, after retiring in 1981, Jin Wudai continued to work as a consultant in the CIA.

In the 40 years before and after, Jin Wudai continuously provided a large amount of American intelligence through the CCP's intelligence agencies in Hong Kong and North America. It is difficult to assess how much influence it has now. But what is certain is that Jin Wudai's intelligence led to the disclosure of many American foreign policy cards in advance, allowing the CCP to seize the opportunity to develop relations with the United States in the dilemma of being abandoned by the world after 1949. It led to the United States making major concessions to the CCP on many issues.

What is particularly funny is that Jin Wudai's intelligence transmission was interrupted for 8 years during the Cultural Revolution-because his superior was criticized and imprisoned. He was not able to continue intelligence transmission until this superior was released from prison.

The seemingly perfect undercover career came to an abrupt end in 1985 because of an unexpected defection. Yu Qiangsheng, the head of the US intelligence work of the Ministry of State Security of the Communist Party of China, the director of the North American Intelligence Department, and the director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau, defected to the United States. One of the tokens of his surrender was the lurking big fish Jin Wudai. Jin Wudai was subsequently arrested.

After being arrested, Jin Wudai thought that he had made great contributions to the Communist Party of China, and waited for the Communist Party of China to rescue him back to China through spy exchange - this is also the unspoken rule of intelligence work in most countries. Whenever their spies are arrested, they will generally not sit idly by and will use various exchanges to rescue them. Because if you don't protect the high-risk profession of spies, who will dare to work for you in the future?

Because of this, Jin Wudai was very confident that the Communist Party of China would rescue him. He said to his wife who came to visit him, "At least do it for the world to see, right? It's not acceptable from a human perspective to ignore the problems of personnel. This country is irresponsible, but it won't be irresponsible forever, right?"

But the Communist Party of China is really different. Jin Wudai was arrested during the honeymoon period of Sino-US relations. After the news came out, there was an uproar in the United States, and the Reagan administration was very embarrassed. Facing the accusations of the United States, Li Zhaoxing, then the spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, publicly stated: "We have nothing to do with that person. The accusations of the United States are groundless."

Faced with the abandonment of the Chinese Communist Party, Jin Wudai had a last glimmer of fantasy. He asked his wife to go to Beijing and try to meet Deng Xiaoping. He believed that "as long as Deng Xiaoping could make a phone call to President Reagan, he might be released." But he thought too much. The Chinese side did not give his wife this opportunity at all. The Chinese Communist Party even froze Jin Wudai's secret account in the Bank of China in Hong Kong, which was originally the funds paid by the Chinese Communist Party to Jin Wudai.

On the afternoon of February 19, 1986, Jin Wudai received the last visitor in his life-Chen Guokun, a reporter from the Chinese newspaper "Zhongbao" in New York. His real identity was actually a Chinese Communist Party intelligence officer. The content of his conversation with Jin Wudai is unknown. But it is certain that it was devastating.

Just two days later, Jin Wudai committed suicide in his cell. He put a garbage bag on his head and tied a shoelace around his neck, suffocating to death. This method of suicide requires the deceased to have great endurance, and he will not die if he has a little desire to survive. It would be difficult to do this if he had not completely lost hope.

This super spy who had been lurking for the Chinese Communist Party for more than 40 years ended the tragedy of his life in a dramatic way.