As everyone knows, after the air crash suffered by Dai Kasa, the head of the "military unification" secret service, Mao Renfeng succeeded him as the actual person in charge of the "military unification." Later, the "military unification" was changed to the "Secrecy Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense," and Mao Renfeng also served as the director of the "Secrecy Bureau." In 1949, after the defeat of the Kuomintang, Mao Renfeng fled with Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, and after arriving in Taiwan, he continued to serve as the director of the "Secrecy Bureau".
However, Mao Renfeng's health was not good, and soon after arriving in Taiwan, he was seriously ill and had to leave his job. So, after Mao Renfeng left, who took over his position? This person is Zhang Yanyuan. Can become Mao Renfeng's successor, Zhang Yanyuan must have a different story, so what kind of person is Zhang Yanyuan?
Zhang Yanyuan was born in 1904, a native of Meixian County, Guangdong Province, in the early years he entered the National Revolutionary Army to make a living, during the first cooperation between the two parties, Zhang Yanyuan joined our party, but later lost contact with the organization, he also became a member of the party. During his time in the Soviet Union, Zhang Yanyuan was sent to the Soviet Union to study, and during his time in the Soviet Union, he systematically studied the content related to intelligence and secret agents, and returned to China in 1930.
After returning to China, Zhang Yanyuan joined the Kuomintang secret service organization Fuxing Society Secret Service, which was the predecessor of the "military unification", Zhang Yanyuan was one of the first elders to join the secret service, deeply trusted by Dai Kasa, was Dai Kasa's right hand, and they were also known as the ten brothers of "military unification".
Since then, Zhang Yanyuan has been engaged in intelligence work, and successively served as the director of the South China Intelligence Station of the Fuxing Society and the director of the Beiping Station. During this period, he did two major things, the first was that during the Fujian Incident, he bribed many generals of the Nineteenth Route Army, which led to internal discord among the Nineteenth Route Army and disintegrated the Fujian Incident from within; the second was that Zhang Yanyuan was appointed as the director of the Beiping Station of the Fuxing Society, when the intelligence organization of the Beiping Station was almost paralyzed, and it was Zhang Yanyuan who tried to turn the tide and rebuild the Beiping Station.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Zhang Yanyuan successively served as the director of the Political Training Department of the Gendarmerie Command and the director of the Sino-US Cooperative Transport Department.
During the Liberation War, the "military command" was reorganized into the "Secrecy Bureau" of the Ministry of National Defense, and Mao Renfeng also succeeded Dai Kasa as the director of the "Secrecy Bureau," while Zhang Yanyuan served as the director of the Guangzhou station of the "Secrecy Bureau" and became Mao Renfeng's right and left arm. With the progress of the Liberation War, the Kuomintang gradually reached the point of exhaustion, but Zhang Yanyuan was not willing to lose, and he ran to Hong Kong and served as the head of the organization department of the southeast executive department of the "Secrecy Bureau", and continued to engage in intelligence work in Hong Kong and other places.
In 1952, Zhang Yanyuan went to Taiwan, and soon after, Mao Renfeng, director of the "Secrecy Bureau," became seriously ill and could no longer preside over practical work. In 1955, the "Secrecy Bureau" was reorganized into the "Intelligence Bureau", and Mao Renfeng recommended Zhang Yanyuan to become the director of the "Intelligence Bureau" and let him become his successor. In 1956, Zhang Yanyuan went one step further and was awarded the rank of "Lieutenant General" of the Kuomintang in Taiwan and became the "Director of the Intelligence Bureau".
In the late 1960s, Zhang Yanyuan gradually faded from people's vision, and he stepped down from his main job and only served as the chairman of the Taiwan Football Association. In 1992, Zhang Yanyuan, who was already 88 years old, also entrusted his niece to return to the mainland to donate funds for education for the mainland, including the construction of teaching buildings, and he also agreed to serve as the honorary chairman of Cheng Feng Middle School, making great contributions to the educational development of his hometown.
In his later years, Zhang Yanyuan has been living in Taiwan, in addition to devoting himself to education, he is also keen to write memoirs, and he has compiled his real experiences into a book that provides reference materials for us to study history. In 2005, Zhang Yanyuan died of illness in Taiwan at the age of 101, a rare high-lived general of the Kuomintang.
Resources:
"Mr. Zhang Yanyuan Collection" Zhang Yanyuan