The Mole and the Medal: Yu Qiangsheng and Larry Chin

In the mid-1980s, high-ranking Chinese intelligence official Yu Qiangsheng defected to the United States and provided critical information that exposed Larry Chin as a long-term Chinese mole within the CIA,,. Larry Chin, who had spent over thirty years funneling sensitive information to Beijing, was subsequently arrested and committed suicide in his prison cell shortly after being convicted of espionage. These events represented a significant peak in the intelligence shadow war between China and the U.S. forever linking the fates of a prominent defector and a veteran double agent.