He is the first former member of China’s secret police to speak publicly about Beijing’s active campaign to silence Chinese pro-democracy voices overseas.
Calling himself ‘Eric,’ he was an agent for China’s Ministry of Public Security or ‘First Bureau,’ from 2008 until last year, when he defected to Australia.
He told CBN News, “My job was to collect intelligence about the country I was in and the anti-communist groups there. I was supposed to infiltrate these groups, make friends, and trap targets for return to China.”
Eric was coerced into becoming an agent in 2008 after his arrest for supporting a pro-democracy party and given a choice: help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) catch dissidents abroad or go to jail. He chose the former, taking on fake identities, such as a property executive and an anti-communist freedom fighter, to lure dissidents to countries where they could be abducted and returned to China.
But because he secretly protected targets and says no one was arrested because of his work, his handlers became suspicious, and he decided to defect.
“I did not want to be responsible for any targets being returned to China and tried to make sure that did not happen,
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