Pathbreaking book on Chinese Communist espionage
This is the first book of its kind to employ hundreds of Chinese sources to explain the history and current state of Beijing's spy apparatus. This unprecedented look into the murky world of China's espionage efforts profiles its leaders, top spies, and important operations, and links to an extensive Web-based glossary of Chinese espionage and security terms.
See the book launch event here, when the authors discussed their work with Jude Blanchette at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC on December 5, 2019.
Matt Brazil was interviewed in January 2020 by China Uncensored, click here. For other interviews and presentations by Matt on Beijing’s espionage apparatus, see here.
“This is an important and timely book. Brazil and Mattis place China’s sustained campaign of espionage in context. Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer is a must-read for all who play a role in protecting free and open societies…” —H.R. McMaster, author, Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam
“In this painstakingly researched and very detailed effort to pierce the veil of Chinese opacity, Brazil and Mattis have helped limn both the history and current dimensions of the still shadowy world of Chinese intelligence and counterintelligence operations.” –Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, former Dean and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
“Chinese Communist Espionage shows us how the Communist Party’s earliest espionage operations inform the present, describes the true scale and scope of Chinese espionage and alerts us to the nature of the world we now inhabit. For clarity and authority, this book is unmatched. We now have a standard text on China’s intelligence history and machinery, and this is it.” –Adam Brookes, author of the Night Heron trilogy
