NSB agents filed double spy charges with prosecutors but claimed no one named Su Shi-bin was a co-worker, who said he worked as a mole in China for years.

According to the initial investigation, Su Shi-bin retired from the Military Intelligence Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense in 1985. Subsequently, he was hired by the NSB and given a mole mission in China. Working under the name of Su Wen-wu, the mole identified a number of NSB agents and passed over military information to the Chinese.

However, his cover was blown in 1988. Su was deported from China in 1999.

In April last year, Su was interviewed in Bangkok by the China Times and admitted he was a double agent. He was paid US$1,000 a month by the NSB, he added. Su also said he exchanged military intelligence with Chinese agents in Japan and Korea and complained that the NSB did not “take good care” of the “man who did a lot for the country.”

Colonel Lisa Chi, spokeswoman for the Ministry of National Defense, admitted Su worked for its Military Intelligence Bureau but resigned in 1985. “The Military Intelligence Bureau,” the colonel said, “is now awaiting the due process of law.” She refused to answer any press question.

The NSB refused comment, But the United Evening News reported Su stayed in the United States for quite some time as an NSB agent. He founded the Taiwan Independence Party in San Francisco, California. He was chairman of the party, the evening paper said.

In 2000, the paper added, Su supplied Feng Hu-hsiang, a New Party lawmaker, with information on political donations to Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party candidate for president, by Taiwanese businesses in the United States.

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