Books by Peter Mattis
Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer
by Matthew Brazil & Peter Mattis
Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer bills itself as a reference guide and though definitely aimed at specialists, it’s not inaccessible. It gives a historical perspective—one of the authors is a historian of early CCP intelligence operations—and highlights the critical importance of Chinese language sources. It opens with the execution of a Chinese spy in 2011, who was revealed to have been working for the CIA. His pregnant wife was also executed, in front of their colleagues. “The two were shot in the ministry’s interior courtyard, the proceedings shown on closed-circuit television.” The book also covers domestic surveillance and the situation in Xinjiang.
