The third department of the General Staff Department is responsible for "signal intelligence" (technical investigation), that is, monitoring, processing and forwarding the communication signals of foreign radio stations. According to Mark Stokes, this department is somewhat similar to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States. Desmond Ball said that these three films are also called "Technology Department", although there is no way to prove it.
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The explanation of the second part also applies to this chapter, which is a highly mysterious field for us, and many things can only be guessed. Even, my understanding of the third part is not as good as the second part. We can hardly be sure of anything described.
data source
There are fewer data sources in the three parts than in the two parts. The information of Eftimiades only tells us that the Ministry does exist and is engaged in technical investigation. There is a page on the FAS website about three films, and the source is the Hong Kong report. According to a brief report in Jane's Defense Weekly, China has monitoring stations in Laos and Myanmar, but did not provide a source. Jane's Intelligence Review published an interesting and relatively long article by a man named Desmond Ball from the Australian National Defense University. This is the main data source of the monitoring station in the sequence diagram. But here, there is no information to list. Because the article declares: "All quotations in this article must be approved by the author."
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head office
This is an institution speculated by the author, assuming that all secondary departments of the General Staff Department have their own administrative centers.
political department
This is also the mechanism inferred by the author. If Eftimiades says that there is a political department in two departments, then there is probably one in three departments.
Eight innings
The Washington Times reported in May 2000 that the 38th Bureau was "responsible for intercepting the electronic communication signals of the former Soviet Union", and Central Asian countries were also the target scope of the Bureau. The report claims that an interception station is located in Dingyuanchen, and its "interception target is the Sino-Russian border area".
Twelve innings
This article, which was also published in the Washington Times, pointed out that three departments and twelve bureaus are responsible for "identifying and tracking foreign satellites-that is, American military satellites". The report also said that a facility of 12 Bureau is located in Changi.
Other bureaus
If the Washington Times report is true (although we can't verify it), it is obvious that the three parts are composed of some numbering bureaus for special countries (let's call them "regional bureaus") and other numbering bureaus for special communication systems such as satellites, faxes and mobile phones. These bureaus can be called "functional bureaus". However, this is our slightly speculative judgment. However, it can be said that if the structure of the three parts is really like this, then most (if not all) domestic monitoring stations listed in the sequence diagram of the three parts (Figure 6) are either numbered as "regional bureaus" or "functional bureaus".
school of foreign languages
In the PLA intelligence system, this school is a sister school of two "international relations colleges". According to FAS data:
Luoyang Foreign Languages Institute of China People's Liberation Army is led by three departments, which are responsible for training foreign language talents for foreign military affairs. Formerly known as 793 Foreign Languages Institute of China People's Liberation Army, it moved from Zhangjiakou to Luoyang and Nanjing after the Cultural Revolution and was divided into two colleges.
Domestic monitoring station
It shows that there are not three subordinate institutions here, but a lot of so-called listening stations. All monitoring stations in the sequence diagram (Figure 6) are derived from the report of Ball. Each box is marked with location and listening target. Qiu claimed that the third "network control center" is located in the northwest of Beijing (Haidian District). He didn't say what this control center was for.
Foreign listening station
According to some public news reports, these three departments do have monitoring stations outside China. Robert carr Neo of Jane's Defence reported that 1994, Vientiane agreed that Beijing should set up three monitoring stations in champasak, a southern province of Laos. One of them is in Khong, the other two don't know. Karniol also said that China also has monitoring stations in Myanmar, but did not say where. Bauer, on the other hand, said that Jane's defense mentioned in a report that was considered as a rumor as early as 1992 that Myanmar agreed to set up an interception station on Coconut Island in the Andaman Sea, which seemed to be used to monitor India. Bauer also said, "... Obviously, there is a monitoring station on Shidao near Linzhong Island in Xisha Islands, covering the South China Sea. According to 1999, American media reported that China and Pakistan cooperated in a listening station project in Lourde, Cuba, which was originally established with the assistance of the Soviet Union. As long as any monitoring station does exist, it will damage the image that we often hear that "China has no troops stationed abroad".
Office of Legal Counsel
At least one report in the People's Liberation Army Daily mentioned this office.
Domestic interception
The third sector also plays an indirect role. When someone wrote the third part, he claimed that the third part was responsible for intercepting domestic military network communications in addition to intercepting external communications. A Hong Kong publication believes that the monitoring of domestic military network communications is a monitoring mechanism of the People's Liberation Army.
Although there are vertical monitoring stations in all parts of the country, the Central Military Commission and the General Staff Department will not rashly believe that they occasionally successfully eavesdrop on enemy radio stations. However, the Central Committee is confident that any wired or wireless communication between major military regions can not avoid the ears of this monitoring network. In this way, another goal has been achieved: direct supervision and control of all activities of major military regions, provincial military regions and group armies.
Although it sounds harsh-even a little exaggerated, as Hong Kong media often do-the fact of monitoring domestic military network communications is likely to be established. However, this is not a "loyalty test", but a random inspection of combat readiness safety.
Relations with major military regions
The researchers of this paper are puzzled: who is in charge of the troops responsible for strategic interception in major military regions? Is it the third department of Beijing General Staff? Or the military region? Probably the former, but we can't find a clear answer from the public information. Desmond Bauer said:
The backbone monitoring stations responsible for signal intelligence collection and processing are operated by the Third Military Region Bureau, namely Beijing, Shenyang, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Lanzhou, Jinan and Nanjing. These bureaus are also responsible for some subordinate listening stations located in their respective defense zones.
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These three bureaus, led by the three departments of the General Staff Department, are responsible for operating large-scale ground monitoring stations and are subordinate to the headquarters of seven military regions. Therefore, they have different functions and target fields. For example, the Third Bureau of Lanzhou Military Region is responsible for monitoring Russian signal communication and shouldering the important mission of early warning of Russian missile attacks.
It is difficult for us to judge the specific meaning of the word "subordinate" from the context.
On the contrary, Huang Yongnian, a reporter from Hong Kong's Qian Bao, believes that military commanders and staff officers have no right to interfere in the work of the three major organizations in their defense zones.
The monitoring station is completely the "agency" of the Third Department of the General Staff Department, and has no affiliation with the province or military region where it is located. In terms of personnel, establishment, budget and establishment, these monitoring stations are entirely under the exclusive responsibility of the Third Department of the General Staff Department, and have nothing to do with garrison troops in other places.
Although these explanations are listed, neither Bohr nor Huang gave us a reliable answer. So we can't draw a conclusion on this issue ("subordinate" or "independent"): Who is in charge of the operation of these monitoring stations? ]
Dingyuan City is also called Dingyuan Camp, commonly known as Wang. Located at the western foot of Helan Mountain. After liberation, it was renamed Bayanhaote (a fertile city in Mongolian) and placed under the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The report also said that a facility of 12 Bureau is located in Changi. Changyi City, Shandong Province belongs to Weifang City.
Qiu claimed that the third "network control center" is located in the northwest of Beijing (Haidian District). Northwest King, located in Wangxiang, Northeast, Haidian District, is a place name that people living in Haidian are familiar with.
1994 Vientiane agreed that Beijing should set up three monitoring stations in champasak, the southern province of Laos. Champasak, a southern province of Laos.
It is speculated that China and Pakistan have cooperated in a listening station project in Lourde, Cuba. Lourde is the place where the former Soviet Union built a large-scale electronic intelligence collection base for the United States, which has been abandoned by Russia in recent years.
Why is the level of the third sector so high? In this way, the military region, the services and arms, the logistics department of the Science, Technology and Industry Committee for National Defense, the administrative department of the General Staff Department, the direct supply department of the General Logistics Department, the hospital affairs department of the Academy of Military Sciences, the school affairs department of the National Defense University and the logistics department of the Armed Police Headquarters are listed separately, and the direct supply units under the General Logistics Department are owned by them.
1. The Ministry of Health of the General Logistics Department is the highest level of disability assessment management and examination and approval authority of the whole army, and is responsible for the examination and confirmation of the qualifications of disability assessment and approval authorities at all levels of the whole army, the operational guidance and interpretation of these Measures, and concurrently the disability assessment and approval work of some units of the General Logistics Department in Beijing.
Second, the military regions, services and arms, the Ministry of Health of the Logistics Department of the Science, Technology and Industry Commission for National Defense, the General Staff, the General Political Department, the Ministry of Administration (Industry) of the General Logistics Department, the Ministry of Health (Administration) of the Logistics Department of the General Staff, the Ministry of Health of the Academy of Military Sciences, the National Defense University, the Ministry of Health of the General Logistics Department, the air forces of the military regions, the Xinjiang Military Region and the Ministry of Health of the Tibet Military Region all have the right to serve as officers. The Ministry of Health of the Logistics Department of Shenyang and Lanzhou Military Region undertakes the examination and approval of disabled officers (including civilian cadres) and volunteers in the Nenjiang Base of the General Logistics Department and the Qinghai-Tibet Military Station Department of the General Logistics Department respectively.
Three, the provincial military regions, group army, Beijing Garrison, Shanghai Garrison, Tianjin Garrison, naval base, fleet aviation, science, technology and industry committee for national defense and the second artillery base, the health department (branch) of the Logistics Department of the Southern Xinjiang Military Region, the health department of the Qamdo Army Division, the health department and office of the Logistics Department, the health department of the Logistics Department of the Qinghai-Tibet Military Station, the Military Medical University, and the first, second and second headquarters of the General Logistics Department. The Health Department of 40th Branch of shenyang military area command Logistics Department is responsible for the examination and approval of disabled conscripts in Nenjiang Base of General Logistics Department.
There are about three departments with a large number of people, tens of thousands, about hundreds of thousands of people, and their work is independent and not controlled by the administrative department and the political department of the General Staff Department.