08-08-2025
The CIA Spy Who Thwarted Taiwan's Nuclear Plans
During the summer months, when the winds of eastern Idaho don't make them unplayable, Gray Chang likes to head to one of the courses near his home for a round of golf. In his 80s, with a pencil-thin mustache and an impish laugh, he strikes an amicable if unremarkable figure.
Chang has lived largely anonymously since arriving in Idaho Falls in 1990, holding a steady job at the nearby laboratory — the details of which were too technically bewildering for most to probe further. He raised three children, and in retirement tries to squeeze in two golf games a week. The prosaic, utterly suburban existence befits, almost too perfectly, an international spy trying to blend in. And that's just what Chang was.
