TwoCIAPrisonersinChina,1952–73ExtraordinaryFidelityNicholasDujmovic“Shotdownontheirfirstoperationalmission,DowneyandFecteauspenttwodecadesinChineseprisons.”ThisdrawsextensivelyonoperationalfilesandotherinternalCIArecordsthatofnecessityremainclassified.BecausethetruestoryofthesetwoCIAofficersiscompellingandhasbeendistortedinmanypublicaccounts,itisretoldhereinasmuchdetailaspossible,despiteminimalsourcecitations.Wheneverpossible,referencestoopensourcesaremadeinthefootnotes.两个CIA囚犯在中国,1952-73非凡的忠诚NicholasDujmovic“在第一次执行任务时被击落后,Downey和Fecteau在中国的监狱中度过了20年”这篇文章引用了许多行动资料和其他一些CIA内部的保密文件。因为两位CIA人员引人注目的真实事件在许多公开的资料中都被歪曲了,除了引用少量的原始资料外,本文尽可能多的在细节方面在此重述该事件。需要的话,请随时参考脚注中的公开资料。***Bei激ng’scapture,imprisonment,andeventualreleaseofCIAofficersJohnT.DowneyandRichardG.Fecteauisanamazingstorythattoofewknowabouttoday.ShotdownoverCommunistChinaontheirfirstoperationalmissionin1952,theseyoungmenspentthenexttwodecadesimprisoned,ofteninsolitaryconfinement,whiletheirgovernmentofficiallydeniedtheywereCIAofficers.Fecteauwasreleasedin1971,Downeyin1973.TheycamehometoanAmericavastlydifferentfromtheplacetheyhadleft,butbothadjustedsurprisinglywellandcontinuetolivefulllives.被抓捕、关押、到最终释放,两位CIA人员JohnT.Downey和RichardG.Fecteau的经历是一个传奇故事,但今天很少有人知道。1952年第一次执行任务时在中国领空被击落,随后两个年轻人被关押了20年,在他们经常被单独监禁时,他们的政府却公开否认他们是CIA人员。Fecteau在1971年被释放,Downey在1973年被释放。他们回家时,美国已和他们离开时大不一样,但他们都令人惊讶的适应得很好并开始了新的生活。EventhoughDowneyandFecteauwerewelcomedbackasheroesbytheCIAfamilymorethan30yearsagoandtheirstoryhasbeencoveredinopenliterature—albeitinshortandgenerallyflawedaccounts—institutionalmemoryregardingthesebraveofficershasdimmed.[1]Theirordealisnotwellknownamongtoday’sofficers,judgingbythesurpriseandwonderCIAhistoriansencounterwhenrelatingitininternallecturesandtrainingcourses.即使30年前Downey和Fecteau被CIA当作英雄一样迎接回家,并且他们的事迹在公开的文献中出版,虽然这些文献短小且常常充满瑕疵。但关于这两个英勇的CIA官员的正式记录已被日渐淡忘。[1]从CIA历史学家在内部演讲和培训时提及他们的事迹时所遇到的惊讶来看,他们的痛苦经历没有被今天的政府官员们所熟知。ThisstoryisimportantasapartofUSintelligencehistorybecauseitdemonstratestherisksofoperations(andtheconsequencesofoperationalerror),thequalitiesofcharacternecessarytoendurehardship,andthepotentialdamagetoreputationsthroughthepersistenceoffalsestoriesaboutpastevents.Aboveall,thesagaofJohnDowneyandRichardFecteauisaboutremarkablefaithfulness,shownnotonlybythemenwhoweredeprivedoftheirfreedom,butalsobyanAgencythatnevergaveuphope.WhileitwasthroughoperationalmisjudgmentsthatthesetwospentmuchoftheiradulthoodinChineseprisons,theAgency,atleastinpart,redeemeditselfthroughitslatercareforthemenfromwhomyearshadbeenstolen.作为美国情报史的一部分,这个事件非常重要,因为它演示了情报行动的风险(还有行动失败的后果)、忍受艰难环境所需的人格品质、还有对过去事件坚持错误描述对声誉的潜在破坏。最重要的是,他们的传奇故事讲述了不仅是失去自由的人,而且还是从不放弃希望的特工人员所表现出来的非凡的忠诚。在中国的监狱中度过了大部分成年时光后,他们失败的军事行动宣告结束,中情局后来通过对这些曾身陷囹圄的人的照顾,至少挽回了...