本篇論文以阿根廷在2005年重新追溯將近三十年前骯髒戰爭時期密告事件和德國電影《竊聽風暴》為引,並佐以留美學者的口述歷史資料,加上具體物證如「職業學生」報告表格、相關文件與照片等,以及1970年代至1980年代的美國媒體對於國民黨「特務學生」在美國活動的相關報導等等,藉此綜合歸納當時臺灣留美學生所遭受的監控問題;並據以重建國民黨專制威權時代所謂的職業學生活動大致面貌。此外,本論文在主要論述上,也配合東歐、南非與拉丁美洲的轉型正義議題,以及對照臺灣這幾年來的相關努力,進而探討社會的期待以及政府、政黨對轉型正義態度的落差。同時也希冀藉此,可以喚起臺灣人重視那段已經遭到遺忘的歷史,並能進一步促成轉型正義的及早完成。
This thesis explores the history of surveillance on overseas Taiwanese students under the administration of authoritarian Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) during the 1970s and early 1990s. The content of this paper tries to trace, in which way and to what extents, how the KMT government monitored overseas Taiwanese students in the United States. This work examines these documents, e.g. newspapers, magazines, interviews and original data to analyse the activities of the KMT spy students in the United States. In addition, compared to some cases of the ”Transitional Justice” over the East Europe, South Africa and Argentina, this thesis attempts to discuss the history on the White Terror of Taiwan, especially the part on the history of surveillance on overseas Taiwanese students in the United States, and then to explain why Taiwan can not be on the way to the Transitional Justice. Taiwanese encounter a big problem on fulfilling the Transitional Justice due to the resistance from politicians; however, this paper wishes to waken Taiwan people's historic memory on the authoritarian KMT ruling and wishes Taiwanese to finish the Transitional Justice as soon as possible.