The Chinese news accounts somehow paint an authentic spy hero who was not only the three JBs (James Bond, Jason Bourne and Jack Bauer) rolled into one, but also scientist Alan Turing and imperial linguist T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) combined.
- I am pretty sure that wasn’t the intention. And, as shown in some photos, the guy was rather handsome in a rugged way. A lady killer, no doubt.
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From: China's Ministry of State Security
- According to the MSS WeChat account which debuted in August, Mackiernan studied physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and demonstrated mastery of radio technology, meteorology, photography, and organic chemistry.
- He was proficient in Spanish, French, German and Russian.
- After Mackiernan joined the US army in 1942 to conduct meteorological research, he was dispatched to Dihua, the current location of Urumqi City in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as a member of the US Army's 10th Weather Squadron for a covert mission from 1944 to 1946,
- and the CIA recruited him as an internal spy.
- After Xinjiang was peacefully liberated in 1949, Mackiernan fled to Xizang with his two colleagues in March 1950 to carry out new missions.
- The group was shot dead by a local military-civilian militia in April 1950 after trespassing onto private land and refusing to drop their weapons.
- Osman, who then gathered more than 5,000 militiamen launched a rebellion in the border areas of Northwest China's Xinjiang, Gansu and Qinghai, was captured in February 1951 and executed two months later.
- In July 1952, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China dispatched delegates to Xinjiang to deal with the residual forces connected to Osman. Through working from political, economic, and social perspectives to eliminate room to operate, remaining spies and hostile elements nurtured by US' CIA were all brought to justice.
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Douglas Mackiernan
Douglas Seymour Mackiernan Born April 25, 1913
Died April 29, 1950 (aged 37)
Nationality American Occupation(s) Spy and Diplomat at the Central Intelligence Agency
Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (April 25, 1913 – April 29, 1950) was the first officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be killed in the line of duty.[1
Douglas Seymour Mackiernan | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 25, 1913 |
| Died | April 29, 1950 (aged 37) |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Spy and Diplomat at the Central Intelligence Agency |
Douglas Seymour Mackiernan (April 25, 1913 – April 29, 1950) was the first officer of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to be killed in the line of duty.[1
CIA career[edit]
In the CIA, his scientific background (he had dropped out of MIT after his freshman year[7]) were employed in espionage and other intelligence of the Soviet atomic bomb. Until 2002, the CIA had classified information on Mackiernan collecting atomic intelligence about the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb (tested just across the border at the Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan). Mackiernan activities were first revealed by Thomas Laird,[8] and confirmed by the CIA in 2008.[9]
In the fall of 1949, Mackiernan led a party of five (including the two men who would survive the trip, Vasili Zvansov and Frank Bessac) out of Ürümqi. They first spent time with Osman Batur and his Kazakh warriors, who fought against the Chinese Communists, who were invading the Second East Turkestan Republic, and then traveled on to Tibet by horseback and camel en route to India. Mackiernan was shot dead by Tibetan border guards after crossing the Chang Tang of Tibet. The US government had failed to request permission, in a timely fashion, from the Tibetan government, and Tibetan messengers had not reached all border guards for the Mackiernan party to enter Tibet unharmed. With imminent threat of the Chinese invasion, Tibetan guards had standing orders in the tense spring of 1950 to shoot all foreigners who attempted to enter Tibet. Furthermore, Mackiernan and his party were dressed as Kazakhs; the Kazakhs in China and the Tibetans were traditional enemies and raided each other across the border.
Because he was the first CIA officer operating under diplomatic cover as a State Department employee to be killed, the CIA had not yet established procedures about pensions. Ultimately his wife and children were denied a CIA pension. In 1950, Peggy Mackiernan was awarded a small pension by the State Department, which was much smaller than her pension would have been if she had received the CIA pension that was due to her. It was only in 2000 that the first star on the CIA's Wall of Honor would be acknowledged to belong to Mackiernan in a secret memorial ceremony. Mackiernan's wife and family were present at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters.
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