Spy Stories
https://www.aviation-defence-universe.com/sent-to-recruit-the-cia-recruited-by-the-cia-the-spy-who-turned-the-tables/ “Sent to Recruit the CIA, Recruited by the CIA: The Spy Who Turned the Tables.” • The Recruiter Who Became the Recruit: The Extraordinary Story of Yu Qiangsheng • The Chinese Spy Who Walked Into The American Camp • One Insider, Decades of Secrets: Why Yu Qiangsheng Story Still Matters By Jai Kumar Verma New Delhi. 10 September 2026. In the shadowy world of espionage, the most damaging weapon is sometimes not a stolen document, intercepted signal or sophisticated surveillance system—it is the insider who knows where the secrets are buried. Yu Qiangsheng was precisely such an insider. A senior Chinese intelligence officer sent to cultivate an American intelligence operative; he turned the operation on its head: the recruiter became the recruit. Yu secretly established a relationship with the CIA, eventually defected to the West in 1985, and provided information that ...