Military Intelligence Bureau

The mission of the Military Intelligence Bureau is to collect political and military intelligence on China, and even when necessary to plan espionage operations of sabotage, assassination, psychological warfare. In addition, the MIB's special missions include the timely establishment of post-enemy forces, incite defection and psychological warfare against the PLA. At present, the MIB is still the primary intelligence agency against the People's Republic of China, although it sometimes conducts espionage operations on other countries. == Training ==

Through external recruitment and selection of suitable intelligence personnel, the MIB conducts spy training courses once a year, with about 120 students in each session, and the courses are divided into "basic" and "specialized" programs. Specialized training includes special intelligence combat techniques of intelligence collection, file creation, camouflage, transformation. All trainees use pseudonyms. In addition, trainees are trained in martial art, shooting, parachuting, radio communication, cryptography, code-breaking, and other special training. After the training is completed, intelligence agents are not sent overseas directly, but are sent by the MIB to alternative counties and cities for identity coverage. During the short term of Director of Military Intelligence Bureau Luo Demin in 2021, a higher percentage of in-unit training with out-of-town will be required. Moreover, the intelligence agents of sending abroad will be prepared to cover their identities by changing in the name of schooling or family business. As a covert intelligence agency, the MIB does not publicly disclose information about intelligence operations. The MIB played an effective role in the early period because there was no contact between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the collection of newspapers and internal documents of the Chinese Communist Party was still of some value. After the reform and opening up, it became easier to obtain information. On the contrary, key information is more difficult to collect than before. == History ==

Predecessor The predecessor of the Military Intelligence Bureau was established in 1954 as the Intelligence Bureau, and after 1985, the "Intelligence Bureau" was merged with the "Special Military Intelligence Office" to form the Military Intelligence Bureau in response to the changing times. 1950s to 1980s During the 1950s, the Secrets Bureau (the predecessor of the Intelligence Bureau) was a secret agency of the Kuomintang, and planned several assassination attempts against Chinese Communist Party politicians. For example, in 1955, the Director of the Intelligence Bureau Mao Renfeng led an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Zhou Enlai in the bombing of the Kashmir Princess. The Intelligence Bureau denied any involvement in the plot until 40 years later when retired Kuomintang Major General Gu Zhengwen , who was involved in the bombing, admitted in China Times that the incident was planted by Taiwanese secret agents who bribed the cleaner to set bombs at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport. The case was solved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, causing an impact on American public opinion. Chiang Ching-kuo was forced by the U.S. government and public opinion to merge the Intelligence Bureau with the Special Military Intelligence Office since the following year, and put them under the jurisdiction of the General Staff Headquarters, which is now the Military Intelligence Bureau. Since then, the Military Intelligence Agency has been under the command of Taiwan's national security system. == Organizational structure ==

The MIB is tightly organized and has 7 divisions, an intelligence research center, and a secret transportation center. • Division 1: Planning the overall intelligence operation plan. • Division 2: Intelligence research and guidance. • Division 3: Supervise the development, personnel, work, and guidance of Taiwanese overseas bases. • Division 4: Post-enemy intelligence development and dispatch. • Division 5: Supervision of post-enemy force organization and development. • Division 6: In charge of psychological warfare strategy and tactics. • Electronic Combat Division: in charge of radio wave detection, communication interception, and decryption codes. :Transportation Center: in charge of liaison with the enemy and overseas bases, including the designation of liaison methods, the delivery of communication materials, and the entry and exit of intelligence personnel. :Intelligence Research Office: responsible for technical intelligence analysis. Reorganization after 2020 After 2020, the establishment of the MIB was changed to five in order to prevent infiltration and establish intelligence breakpoints. The structure is as follows. • Division 1: Northeast Asian Affairs. • Division 2: Southeast Asian Affairs. • Division 3: Taiwan's home and outer islands. • Division 4: European, American and Australian Affairs. • Division 5: Intelligence Research, which is also the largest division. == Chief officer ==

==Activities in foreign countries==

Ukraine According to sources, intelligence chief Yin Zongwen broke through Russia's international intelligence network and sent four pilots to Ukraine in early 1996 to try out a SU-27 fighter jet. In 2004, the Canadian magazine Kanwa Intelligence Review revealed further insider story, reporting that the Taiwanese Air Force had sent pilots to Kyiv to test-fly the Su-27SK and had received some assistance from Ukrainian experts in tactical training, as well as attempting to obtain information on maintenance parts for the second-hand fighter. Taiwan's eagerness to obtain the performance parameters of the PLA's mass-imported Su-27SK led to an intense military intelligence war between Taiwan and China in Ukraine. On April 30, 2004, the MIB issued a gag order on the report and refused to comment on it. == See also ==