Machine generated contents note: 1. Public security: the institutional framework; 2. Agents by category: informers, enablers, and guardians; 3. The recruitment base: where utility trumps class; 4. Finding the right man for the job: operational profiling; 5. Recruitment; 6. Training and tradecraft: behind the covert front; 7. Agent running: Beijing rules.
Spying for the people : Mao's secret agents, 1949-1967 by Michael Schoenhals. ISBN 9781107603448. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.