Yu Qiangsheng

Yu Qiangsheng
Yu Qiangsheng
俞强声
	Yu circa 1960
Born	Yu Qiangsheng; 1940; Yan'an, Shaanxi province, Republic of China
Disappeared	1986; United States
Status	Whereabouts unknown
Citizenship	People's Republic of China; United States (from 1985)
Alma mater	University of International Relations
Employers	Ministry of State Security; Ministry of Public Security;
Parents	Li Yunhe (mother); Huang Jing (father); Mao Zedong (stepfather);
Family	Yu Zhengsheng (brother); Zeng Zhaolun (great uncle); Yu Dawei (great uncle); Zhang Aiping (uncle-in-law);
	Espionage activity
Allegiance	United States (from 1985)
Agency	Central Intelligence Agency
Cryptonym	PLANESMAN

Yu Qiangsheng (Chinese: 俞强声; born 1940, disappeared 1986) is a former high-ranking Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States in 1985. During a career which saw him rise to head of the North America Bureau of China's Ministry of State Security (MSS), Yu passed information to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which most famously exposed CIA officer Larry Wu-Tai Chin as having been a mole for Chinese intelligence for more than 40 years.

Born the princeling son of two communist revolutionaries, Huang Jing and Li Yunhe (later married to Mao Zedong), Yu is also the elder brother of Yu Zhengsheng, a prominent retired Chinese politician.

Yu is reported to continue to live in the United States under federal protection, at one point under the pseudonym "Mr. Zhang." In 2015, he was described by his former FBI handler as "the ultimate risk taker."

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