Liu Liankun Explained

Liu Liankun
Birth Date:20 January 1933
Birth Place:Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, Manchukuo
Death Place:Beijing, China
Death Cause:Lethal injection
Alma Mater:People's Liberation Army Logistics Academy
Branch:People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department
Military Intelligence Bureau
Serviceyears:1947–1999
Rank:Major general

Liu Liankun (20 January 1933 – 15 August 1999), was a major general (shaojiang) in the People's Liberation Army who provided the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan with secret intelligence about the status of missiles from the People's Republic of China (PRC). During the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1996, the ROC Ministry of National Defense notified the public that the missiles launched by the PRC actually carried unarmed warheads. This tipped off Beijing that Taipei had a high-level mole working on the mainland. Liu, a top Chinese military logistics officer, was arrested, court-martialed and executed in 1999.[1] [2]

The ROC's Military Intelligence Bureau confirmed that Liu was one of its spies in 2018.[3]

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  1. News: Tung . Chen-yuan . 3 March 2006 . PLA general helped prevent a war . . Svensson . Perry . 8 . 2006-03-03.
  2. News: Kim . Benjamin Kang . 14 September 1999 . China Executes Two For Spying for Taiwan . . 30 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170801162141/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/09/14/china-executes-two-for-spying-for-taiwan/2572942a-153e-41d2-8ecd-fa209f2779f2/ . 1 August 2017 . live.
  3. News: Lo . Tien-pin . Chin . Jonathan . 27 March 2018 . MIB memorial hall reopens after two-year renovation . . 3 . The bureau also disclosed that Liu Liankun (劉連昆), a Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) major general, executed by Beijing in 1999 for espionage, was among the fallen honored at the shrine..