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Larry Wu-tai Chin (August 17, 1922 – February 21, 1986) was a Chinese Communist spy who worked for the United States Government for 37 years (1944–1981), including positions at the U.S. Army and the CIA, while secretly being a mole for the Communist Party's intelligence apparatus from the very beginning. Recruited by the Chinese Communist spy network when he worked as a spy in the American Consulate to the Republic of China in Shanghai, he provided intelligence to the CCP and later, the People's Republic of China. He kept passing classified documents and secret information to the People's Republic of China even after his retirement, until he was finally exposed in 1985. Chin was the first major member of the Chinese intelligence captured by the US.

Chin was one of China's most valuable foreign intelligence agents of the entire Cold War period; he supplied the PRC with top-secret information on American foreign policy initiatives relating to China, as well as biographical profiles of CIA agents. In 1970, he passed CIA documents to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai regarding President Richard Nixon's desire to open relations with the PRC; Mao therefore knew about Nixon's intentions well in advance of his diplomatic overtures, which allowed him to alter his policy (such as the volume of anti-American rhetoric in the state-controlled Chinese press) in order to extract the maximum political concessions from the Americans. This, however, was later suspected as an excuse by Chin to maximize his contribution to the US China relations. Chin was a naturalized U.S. citizen.

Early life
Born as Chin Wu-tai in Peking, Republic of China, in 1922 to affluent parents, he enjoyed a comfortable childhood. Chin's father was among the first group of Chinese students that studied abroad. After completing his studies in France, Chin's father returned to China and was employed as the director of the Beijing-Hankou Railway Line operated by the French. His son, Chin Wu-tai would later attend Yenching University and graduate with a degree in Communications. According to the memoir of his wife, Jinyu Zhou, after finishing his studies in Chengdu in 1944, Chin was first recruited as a translator into the British Army Aid Group based in Chongqing, China, the temporary capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. After recruitment, Chin was dispatched to Canton, the province north of Hong Kong.

Chin was recruited by the Chinese Communist intelligence apparatus (then called the Central Social Affairs Department, or SAD) in 1944, during World War II. He was specifically directed to find employment in an American government agency (at the time, the Nationalist Government of Chiang Kai-shek was working closely with the Americans against Japan). Chin, who spoke good English, was hired by the United States Army, and was appointed to work as a translator of Chinese language at the U.S. Army Liaison Office in the city of Fuzhou after the war's end in 1945.

From 1945 to 1949 Chin was a translator for the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai, and from 1949 to 1950 for the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong (then under British rule). During this time, he passed countless classified documents to the Chinese Communist intelligence service directed by Li Kenong during the early years of the PRC and was named first the Liaison Department and later the Central Investigation Department. Chin was regularly and highly paid for his services.

In 1949, Chin married his first wife Chou in Shanghai. They would remain married and have children until 1959, the year Chin met his second wife, Jinyu Zhou.

Korean War and After
Chin, then working in the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong as a translator, was sent by the US Congress to South Korea during the Korean War in 1951. Chin served as a Chinese translator in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, helping to debrief Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war. He misrepresented the intelligence that he was translating from captured Chinese soldiers resulting in the loss of U.S. forces and missed tactical opportunities. Many of these Chinese soldiers intended to defect to South Korea. He also provided the Chinese government with the names of captured Chinese soldiers who were revealing information or declared themselves opposed to Communist Party rule and intended to defect. The Chinese then specifically requested these soldiers by name to be released back to China before the armistice negotiations could take place. This delayed the negotiations process for over a year. While most Chinese soldiers captured by the UN forces chose to go to Taiwan, held by Chiang's regime of the Republic of China, a precious few who agreed to return to the PRC and perform spy work were all captured by the PRC government when the list of their names were provided by Chin.

After the end of the Korean War, Chin was transferred to Okinawa and started working under the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) operated by the CIA. He was tasked with listening to the radio stations operated in the People's Republic of China and record any useful information. There, Chin met his second wife, Jinyu Zhou. Jinyu Zhou, a native Taiwanese broadcaster, was recruited by the UN forces to broadcast in Chinese to the captured Chinese soldiers. Although both parties were already married and had children at the time they met, they nonetheless became a couple. They would move to the US together for Chin's job in 1961 and were married in 1963.

Penetrating the CIA
Working as a translator for FBIS, Chincontinued his espionage for China. He was posted in Okinawa (1952–61), Santa Rosa, California (1961–71) and Rosslyn, Virginia (1971–81). According to No Kum-Sok, the North Korean pilot who defected with a MiG-15, Larry Chin was one of his CIA handlers after his defection.