TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE:A source said the majority of the documents relate to an 11-year period when the MIB was probing the CCP’s Taiwan Provincial Work Committee
Taipei Times
Date: Mar 26, 2018
By: Lo Tien-pin and Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter, with staff writer
More than 80,000 official Military Intelligence Bureau (MIB) documents from 1946 to 1955 have been organized and inspected by the Ministry of National Defense bureau, and now await declassification as part of the government’s efforts to promote transitional justice.
The bureau is to work with the National Development Council’s National Archives Administration (NAA) to transfer the documents that can be declassified to the archives.
The majority of the documents are related to assignments that were carried out over the 11 years, when the MIB was known as the Counterintelligence Bureau — or more commonly as the “secrecy bureau” (保密局) — and deal with intelligence on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) underground organization, the Taiwan Provincial Work Committee (台灣省工作委員會), an unnamed military official said. [FULL STORY]