Lurking Sea

At Taoyuan Airport in 1949, when Yu Zecheng completed the last "hen turn" signal under the surveillance of the stationmaster, he would not have thought that this action would become the prelude to a lurking that lasted for thirty-eight years. The customs inspector who was forced to go to Taiwan burned letters to his "dead wife Cuiping" and used the ashes to spell out the first map of Taiwan's defenses. From participating in the construction of the U. S. Military's "Bright Project" intelligence network, to witnessing General Wu Shi's blood-stained racecourse town; from protecting the last underground radio station during the white terror, to using the Kinmen Artillery Battle to convey key military information. Yu Zecheng spent thirty years in a Japanese-style dormitory on Fuzhou Street in Taipei weaving a cross-strait intelligence network. When he developed his first student at the Yangmingshan training base, established a new contact point at the "Free China" magazine, and deciphered US military messages at the submarine cable listening station, Cuiping in the mainland mountain village was deciphering the Morse code he left behind from the radio noise...