The agents who lurked around Chairman Mao suffered from cancer in his later years and went to the mainland for treatment, and were received by Deng Xiaoping
For spies, the words espionage warfare are not unfamiliar to us, such as "Latent", "Kite", "Pretender" and other domestic spy dramas can be said to be household names, and the ups and downs of the plot make people shoot cases.
In that era of real life, there were not many well-known secret agents, and the most well-known people were General Li Kenong of our party and Dai Kasa, the head of the Kuomintang's secret service.
However, there is such a figure, who can be said to be unknown in the long river of history, but what he has done is enough to make people stunned. This person's name is Shen Zhiyue, a spy known as "Blue 007".
Although Shen Zhiyue's fame was not as good as that of his boss Dai Kasa, his experience was no less than that of Dai Kasa. He had been lurking in Yan'an, with Chairman Mao at his side for a year.
Moreover, Shen Zhiyue himself was also the second largest Kuomintang agent trained by Dai Kasa, and after Dai Kasa's death, he became the hottest figure in the military command.
Shen Zhiyue
The road to becoming a military commander
Regarding shen Zhiyue's life, people can still only explore the life of this character from limited historical records. Shen Zhiyue was born in 1913, his hometown is located in Xianju, Zhejiang, and his childhood was spent in a chaotic environment.
Shen Zhiyue was born in a solid family and received a relatively good education since childhood. The family's education has enabled Shen Zhiyue to form a deep personality since childhood, and at the same time, he is also an extremely delicate and cautious person.
A good education has made Shen Zhiyue have a relatively rich insight when he was a student, and he has also developed an interest in many new ideas. In middle school, Shen Zhiyue came into contact with Marxism-Leninism and became interested in the Communist Party. Shen Zhiyue, however, was characterized by caution and depth, and he did not immediately join the ranks of communists.
Later, the Japanese aggressors created the "918 Incident" in China and began to launch a war of aggression against China, and China's national crisis deepened.
At a time of national peril, progressive youth stepped forward to advocate for the future of the country and the nation, which led to a large-scale student movement. The young and enthusiastic Shen Zhiyue also participated, uniting the masses to exert pressure on the Kuomintang.
However, the Kuomintang government at that time was bent on pursuing the erroneous proposition that "foreign countries must first be at home," and always aimed the spearhead of the struggle at our party, while adopting a policy of appeasement and appeasement toward the Japanese aggressors, burying the best time for the War of Resistance.
Not only that, but the government of the Republic of China also believes that behind this student movement, there is our party's plot and promotion. For this reason, the Kuomintang reactionaries arrested a large number of students and tortured them to extract confessions, hoping to follow the vine and find the underground party organization of our party hiding in the shadows.
During this arrest, Shen Zhiyue was also imprisoned. However, unlike most of the patriotic students who were severely beaten by Kuomintang military command agents after being arrested and refused to confess, Shen Zhiyue's response strategy appeared somewhat cunning.
In the face of the secret agents of the military command, Shen Zhiyue was not in a hurry, and showed extreme composure, and hinted that behind these fierce and vicious agents there was a "relative of a kuomintang official" behind him, and he was doing things for him, and there was no need to tell you about the matter.
When those Kuomintang agents heard him say this, they were immediately frightened by him, and no one dared to torture him. As a result, Shen Zhiyue spent a leisurely time in prison.
However, the Kuomintang military command was not a miscellaneous army after all, and through subsequent investigations, Shen Zhiyue's lies were exposed, and the agents became angry and prepared to punish Shen Zhiyue. At this time, Dai Kasa, who was the head of the military command, stood up and stopped his subordinates.
In China's modern history, Dai Kasa was known for his fierce heart, actively serving Chiang Kai-shek's life, presiding over many assassination activities, and cultivating a large number of agents for Chiang Kai-shek, which won Chiang Kai-shek's trust. What Dai Kasa most wants to do is to cultivate a top agent who can act as his right-hand man.
Previously, Dai Kasa was very superstitious about the importance of academic qualifications, believing that a good agent must first have a high IQ, so he attached great importance to cultivating a group of high-quality students, including Fei Tongze, who was a German doctoral student.
However, in the economic war against Japan presided over by Dai Kasa, Fei Tongze, who had high hopes, was not familiar with Japan on the one hand, and he only engaged in theory, so he did not achieve half a point in taking office for more than half a year.
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Later, Dai Kasa, who liked martial arts novels and had a strong jianghu plot, planned to recruit strange people and strangers from the folk. But what disappointed Dai Kasa was that these strange people and strangers collected from the people were not useful at all, and even their abilities could not catch up with ordinary spies.
After two consecutive failures, Dai Kasa gave up the practice of taking advantage of the situation and honestly cultivated secret agent talents through the secret service school, so he founded the police academy.
At this time, although Shen Zhiyue was still only a hairy boy in his early twenties, his wit and composure in the face of dangerous situations left a deep impression on Dai Kasa.
Dai Kasa not only stopped his subordinates from torturing Shen Zhiyue, but also invited Shen Zhiyue to his office and had a long talk with him. So far, we have no way of knowing in what way Dai Kasa persuaded Shen Zhiyue, but the result was that Shen Zhiyue agreed to Dai Kasa's invitation, threw himself into Dai Kasa's command, and began his career as a spy.
Regarding Dai Kasa's favor for Shen Zhiyue, one of the theories is that Dai Kasa is very superstitious, he once asked someone to tell his fortune, and the fortune teller said that Dai Kasa lacked water in the five elements, so Dai Kasa attached great importance to Shen Zhiyue who had water in his name.
Although there is no basis for this rumor, Shen Zhiyue did become Dai Kasa's right-hand man after that, and also the most relied on military command agent of the Kuomintang after Dai Kasa, who fulfilled Dai Kasa's lifelong dream of defeating the Kuomintang's "Central Unification" of the old rival of the general's unification.
Shen Zhiyue and Chiang Kai-shek took a group photo
A stinger lurking in Yan'an
After defecting to Dai Kasa, Shen Zhiyue was released and became a spy who only obeyed Dai Kasa's orders and was single-handedly contacted by Dai Kasa.
After that, Shen Zhiyue, under the instructions of Dai Kasa, was active in the public eye as a patriotic youth, actively organized and participated in the workers' movement, participated in student organizations, began to manage his own external image, and joined the peripheral underground party organization of our party in Shanghai under the name of Li Guodong.
After several years of planning, Shen Zhiyue ushered in an opportunity for himself to "break into" the organization. In the winter of 1936, in the face of an increasingly deep national crisis and the sudden change in the domestic political situation, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng launched the "Xi'an Incident" in Xi'an and arrested Chiang Kai-shek.
Subsequently, with the active mediation of our Party, the Xi'an affair became resolved peacefully, and Chiang Kai-shek agreed to a joint anti-Japanese struggle. In this regard, the Intention of the Second Cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was gradually reached, and the people of the whole country will unite to jointly deal with the raging iron heel of Japanese imperialism.
At this time, Shen Zhiyue saw his own opportunity, and under Dai Kasa's arrangement, Shen Zhiyue, alias Shen Hui, came to Yan'an as a progressive youth as an attaché of Professor Xiao Zhiping.
Chairman Mao (second from right) and Xiao Zhiping (first from right) pose for a group photo
At that time, Yan'an was the core area of our party, and many progressive young people and patriots came here every year, of course, there were also some Kuomintang agents with ulterior motives.
Therefore, everyone who enters Yan'an, especially within our Party, will be strictly examined by the Security Section. As an outsider, Shen Zhiyue was bound to go through some scrutiny, but Dai Kasa had already arranged these for him.
After many years of operation, fudan university graduates, outstanding young people in the Shanghai workers' movement, sat in the prison of the Kuomintang, studied Marxist-Leninist books and periodicals, and can speak proficient English and Russian, one label after another makes people feel that Shen Zhiyue is a "progressive youth".
However, if a person is too well disguised, it is so good that there is no flaw, but it will arouse the suspicion of others. Shen Zhiyue was very cunning, and he created a little "trouble" for himself in a timely manner.
Chairman Mao was in Yan'an
For example, during the review, Shen Zhiyue said that he was from Henan, but his accent had Jiangsu and Zhejiang characteristics, which aroused the vigilance of Zhou Xing, the director of the security department. In this regard, Shen Zhiyue explained that he had been living in Shanghai with his uncle before, so his accent was influenced by the locals.
In the face of this statement, Zhou Xing certainly did not easily believe it, he talked to Shen Zhiyue twice, tried to find his loopholes, and then checked Shen Zhiyue's university student status information through the underground party, but because Shen Zhiyue had done a lot of preparatory work before, his "student status" was fully proved, and in the end, Shen Zhiyue passed the review and entered the interior of Yan'an.
Shen Zhiyue's visit, on the other hand, was to spy on our party's intelligence and to wait for an opportunity to assassinate important leaders of our party, including Chairman Mao and Zhou Enlai.
As mentioned earlier, Shen Zhiyue came to Yan'an as an assistant to Professor Xiao Zhiping, who was also a progressive intellectual full of hope for our Party and also had personal relations with Chairman Mao, so they were all received by Chairman Mao and others together.
Anti-Japanese Military and Political University
Although Shen Zhiyue was already close to Chairman Mao at this time, he did not have the opportunity to attack, but had been waiting for the opportunity. After Professor Xiao Zhiping's visit, Shen Zhiyue did not leave with him, but chose to take the initiative to ask to stay and study.
For this kind of thing, Yan'an at that time was very welcome, not to mention that Shen Zhiyue was such an excellent "progressive youth". Therefore, Shen Zhiyue naturally stayed in Yan'an and came to the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University to study.
In the process of studying at Kang Da, Shen Zhiyue's academic performance was very good, and he was also appreciated for this, and the person who appreciated him was Kang Sheng.
During Shen Zhiyue's stay in Yan'an, he ushered in an opportunity because he was valued by Kangsheng. Kang Sheng once said in front of Luo Ruiqing, the president of the Kang Da University: "Shen Zhiyue has worked hard and complained, is hard and simple, and is an example among the young people who came to Yan'an in the Kuomintang region."
Shen Zhiyue is versatile, not only superb photography skills, but also driving cars, the speech is very level of passion, but privately and taciturn, his brush words are strong and powerful, playing basketball skills are also very impressive, his marksmanship can wear Yang in a hundred steps, but never participate in the game.
Once, Shen Zhiyue approached Chairman Mao, who loved to smoke, and just when Chairman Mao had finished smoking in his pocket, Shen Zhiyue unhurriedly took out a pack of Chairman Mao's favorite cigarettes from his pocket.
Chairman Mao smoked a photo
Looking at a cigarette handed by Shen Zhiyue, Chairman Mao gladly accepted, shen Zhiyue also lit a cigarette, but people who can't smoke can't pretend, Chairman Mao looked at Shen Zhiyue, who couldn't smoke, pretending to smoke, and vigilantly realized that Shen Zhiyue was paying attention to and studying himself.
After that, the careful Chairman Mao found that Shen Zhiyue had a deep foundation in calligraphy and was also proficient in chess, but he never spoke, and Chairman Mao began to feel that Shen Zhiyue was pretending to be confused, and such a flawless young man was unimaginable.
During the Yan'an period, Shen Zhiyue transmitted a lot of valuable information for the Kuomintang. Later, someone asked him, Yan'an and Chongqing are thousands of miles apart, how did you pass on the information?
Shen Zhiyue said that in Yan'an at that time, there was an old man who sold oil tea with a copper pot with a missing mouth, and he was the joint personnel arranged by the military command in Yan'an.
The officers of the Yan'an Security Service captured a Kuomintang agent and learned from them that a secret agent of the military command had infiltrated Yan'an and was ready to take action against Chairman Mao and other leaders.
After learning of this news, the Yan'an Security Department, on the one hand, vigorously searched for and arrested enemy agents in Yan'an, and on the other hand, focused on strengthening the security work of Chairman Mao and other leaders, and later set up a garrison regiment to protect the safety of leaders.
Chairman Mao gave a speech in Yan'an
Although Chairman Mao's intuition shen zhiyue had a plot, but there was no reliable evidence, so he could only be transferred, and Shen Zhiyue himself was not only a "poisoned dagger", but also a strategic agent, he would not easily put himself in, after a year of lurking in Yan'an without results, go to work in the white area of Zhejiang.
Spy King, or Double Agent?
After leaving Yan'an, Shen Zhiyue continued to engage in espionage and played an important role in the "Anhui Southern Incident". The Southern Anhui Incident occurred during the stalemate phase of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when Chiang Kai-shek instructed He Yingqin and Bai Chongxi to forcibly order the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army to march north of the Yellow River within a month.
In this regard, the commanders of the Eighth Route Army, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, and the commanders of the New Fourth Army, Ye Ting and Xiang Ying, argued with the Kuomintang side, and in the end, the New Fourth Army agreed to let the troops of southern Anhui go north of the Yangtze River.
After this, about 9,000 soldiers quickly marched and rushed to the established area as agreed, while the Kuomintang side ordered Gu Zhutong and Shangguan Yunxiang to lead the army to encircle and suppress, thus creating the Southern Anhui Incident.
In this incident, because of the outnumbered, about 7,000 soldiers of the New Fourth Army were killed, and many generals, including Ye Ting, were captured. The occurrence of the anhui incident shocked both at home and abroad; at that time, China was in a critical period of war against Japan, and the Kuomintang reactionaries, regardless of the overall situation, brazenly undermined the anti-Japanese national united front and exposed their reactionary nature.
In this incident, Shen Zhiyue played an important role as a spy, that is, he secretly reported the movements of the New Fourth Army to the Kuomintang.
Anhui Southern Incident Martyrs Cemetery
After this incident, because one of his informants revealed his identity, Shen Zhiyue knew that he could no longer continue to hide as before, so he returned to Chongqing.
Subsequently, the military command established the Southeast Special Intelligence Station, and the director of this intelligence station was Shen Zhiyue. Gradually, Shen Zhiyue's identity also came from behind the scenes to the front of the stage.
Later, as the War of Liberation advanced step by step, the Kuomintang soldiers were defeated like mountains, and the general trend was gone, so Chiang Kai-shek fled to Baodao. After fleeing, the father and son of the Jiang family could not rest assured of their ancestral home and ancestral grave.
After all, there are many bad things to do, and there are ghosts in the heart. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek treated the ancestral graves of the Communists with the ability to plan and plan, and those who could not be planed were also wantonly destroyed and did not show mercy. The father and son of the Chiang family lived in the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, lest our party treat them "in the way of others and treat them as human beings."
Because they saw the hidden worries of the Father and Son of the Jiang Family, some people deliberately sneaked back to the Fenghua Xikou of the Jiang Family's hometown and took photos of their ancestral home and ancestral tombs intact to show the Father and Son of the Jiang Family, which made them put their minds at ease.
At that time, it was Shen Zhiyue who did this for the father and son of the Chiang family, who, after spying on Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts, disguised himself as a teacher, sneaked back to Chiang's hometown, and took photos of him. In this regard, Chiang Kai-shek was very grateful and attached more importance to Shen Zhiyue.
Shen Zhiyue sneaked into Fenghua, Zhejiang Province, to take photos of Chiang Kai-shek's former residence
And what really made the father and son of the Jiang family lean on Shen Zhiyue as an arm was another thing, that is, the "Cai Xiaoqian Incident." In March 1950, the Kuomintang arrested Cai Xiaoqian on Treasure Island and learned from him that an underground party named Zhu Chenzhi had sneaked back to Zhoushan with important information and planned to return to Shanghai.
Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered that Zhu Chenzhi must be captured, and it was Shen Zhiyue who accepted this task. Shen Zhiyue ordered his subordinates to conduct a carpet inspection of Zhoushan, filtering one person at a time, and successfully arrested Zhu Chenzhi after checking nearly half a million people.
Moreover, Shen Zhiyue also detected new spy clues. After this incident, Chiang Kai-shek greatly recognized Shen Zhiyue and appointed him as the "director of the Investigation Bureau", and Shen Zhiyue was also known as the "father of the Investigation Bureau" of the Kuomintang.
After that, Shen Zhiyue had a very close relationship with Chiang Ching-kuo, and the two sides had frequent exchanges, and Shen Zhiyue gradually became a confidant. Under Chiang Ching-kuo, he became the hottest person, and gradually eliminated political enemies, supporting the secret service agency of the Chiang dynasty.
The old stubbornness of the Central Unification who once dai Kasa wanted to get rid of them quickly, one by one, was reduced to a prisoner at the hands of Shen Zhiyue, and when they were in prison, they were still very resentful, saying that Shen Zhiyue was a person who did not even know ABC, and it was too unjust to lose to him.
Shen Zhiyue and Chiang Ching-kuo
Where do they know that Shen Zhiyue's cultural level is not only English, but also Russian, where is a person who does not even know ABC. It can be seen that the old stubbornness of the Central Unification Gang is not unjust at all, and the depth of Shen Zhiyue's city government is not as simple as they understand.
Speaking of this, everyone may also understand that Shen Zhiyue is a thoughtful and deep-seated reactionary spy of the city government.
But things are not always the same, about Shen Zhiyue, there is one of the biggest mysteries, very intriguing. That is, Shen Zhiyue later in the 1990s, because he suffered from terminal prostate cancer, his condition subsequently deteriorated, so he came to the mainland for diagnosis and treatment under the advice of his wife.
It is reasonable to say that such a person would dare to come to Beijing, but Shen Zhiyue not only came, but was also received by Deng Xiaoping. In the face of courtesy, Shen Zhiyue was very low-key: "I came to Beijing for nothing else, but to see a doctor."
Finally, his former classmate, General Zhang Aiping, who was also the former minister of national defense of our country, invited him to a famous doctor, and the descendant of Li Shizhen, the author of the "Compendium of Materia Medica", was invited.
Zhang Aiping once said: "Of Shen Zhiyue's nine years of membership in the Communist Party, seven years were model party members. His personality is very similar to that of Premier Zhou, introverted, gentle and subtle. ”
Zhang Aiping (first from right) and Shen Zhiyue (first from left), who came to Beijing to see a doctor
Shen Zhiyue, who came to Beijing for treatment, returned to Baodao after a short period of treatment, and in the 5 years that Shen Zhiyue suffered from cancer, he never had painkiller injections due to pain until his death, nor did he ever show the pain of illness, always smiling at people, comforting his family and the staff around him.
According to medical staff, Shen Zhiyue's cancer is extremely painful, and it is not something that ordinary people can do if he can endure the pain and suffering for such a long time, and they admire it. Due to his serious illness, Shen Zhiyue eventually failed to survive this pass and died in February 1994.
After Shen Zhiyue's death, General Zhang Aiping said the following about Shen Zhiyue's death: "Wisdom and courage are both perfect, the country is governed, one thing is two masters, and both sides are harmless." ”
The information revealed by this evaluation is also surprising, General Zhang Aiping said that this passage will certainly not be casual, combined with the courtesy received by Shen Zhiyue when he went to Beijing, one thing is two masters, and both sides are harmless? Could it be that Shen Zhiyue was a double-sided spy?
Unfortunately, due to everything about Shen Zhiyue, as to whether he was a double-sided spy, it was still impossible to know. And if Shen Zhiyue is really a double-sided spy, then this person's life is really too mysterious.
But with the death of Shen Zhiyue, about this person, all we are left with is endless reverie.
In his later years, Shen Zhiyue went to Beijing for medical treatment
Shen Zhiyue was born in a chaotic world, but he did not throw himself into the ranks of the War of Resistance like other hot-blooded young people. By chance, Shen Zhiyue was able to get to know Dai Kasa, and his life changed significantly.
As far as the spy experience is concerned, Shen Zhiyue's espionage work has no major flaws. It is also fortunate that he was ordered to lurk and did not show any flaws, and because of the strength of our party's defense work, he was able to retreat after failure.
After ending his espionage career, Shen Zhiyue started politics in Baodao and eventually died well. A lifelong resume is staggering, but in life is a gentle and simple person, in charge of finances, but to be a clean official with two sleeves, not afraid of rumors, dare to marry a drama as a wife, such a person, really unpredictable.
What kind of words should we use to describe him? There are too many labels that can be put on him, and it is precisely because his life is too mysterious that Shen Zhiyue is known as "Blue 007". There are still too many mysteries about his story that have not been solved, waiting for time to confirm.