In 2013, in Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province, at the entrance of the 28th Town Pension Service Center, three elderly people gathered together and left a precious group photo. Two men and one woman, these three people have been anonymous on the mainland for nearly sixty-four years, and although they have never met in their youth, they all have a common identity -- the kuomintang military command agents, Dai Yiqian, Wang Qinglian, and Zhu Rinbo are the last three former military command agents on the mainland, why they chose to become Kuomintang agents, and finally stayed on the mainland, what is their life experience?
Before introducing the resumes of the three old men, we have to focus on describing the "military unification" that is very familiar in movies and television series. What kind of an institution it is. In 1943, the then U.S. military attaché in China said that in the 1930s and 1940s, under the leadership of Dai Kasa, the Kuomintang secret service organization, the military command, was "one of the most powerful and important organizations in China at that time."
The full name of the military command is the Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Military Commission of the National Government, which is one of the secret service organizations of the Kuomintang. Founded in 1938. Formerly known as the Secret Service of The Core Organization of the Revival Society, Lixing Society. In June 1946, the open armed secret service section of the Military Command Bureau was transferred to the Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense, and the secret core part was reorganized into the National Defense Secrecy Bureau. The main person in charge is Dai Kasa.
At its peak, there were nearly 50,000 agents, distributed to the Kuomintang army, police, administrative organs, transportation agencies, and even embassies and consulates abroad, specializing in surveillance, kidnapping, arrest, and assassination. In many places, the Military Command Bureau set up concentration camps, secret prisons, and detention centers to imprison and persecute Communists, progressives, and revolutionary students. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the military command also engaged in collecting enemy intelligence and carrying out terrorist activities against the enemy.
Therefore, it played some role in cracking down on the Japanese aggressors and traitors. The old man Wang Qinglian mentioned at the beginning is the only woman, she recalled the past, said, "Dai Kasa is powerful, but there are bad and good." Including the Military Command Bureau, the Military Command Bureau not only engaged in counter-revolutionary work, but also contributed to the War of Resistance, sacrificing 18,000 people in the War of Resistance, intelligence against Japan, and assassination of Wang Jingwei. ”
Wang Qinglian used to work as a telegraph translator within the military command, and was considered a civilian. She herself is a native of Jiangshan, Zhejiang, and her father died when she was less than one year old, and in order to avoid the family's fall, her mother insisted on sending her daughter to school. However, as the Japanese invaders launched an all-out war of aggression against China, Wang Qinglian's personal fate also took a huge turn, because the military command of the Kuomintang went to Jiangshan County at the behest of Dai Kasa to recruit people.
In April 1943, Wang Qinglian had just turned 15 years old, did not understand anything, the family was in financial difficulties, and there was no way to go, at this time the Military Command Bureau came to Jiangshan to recruit people, and her mother signed her up. Wang Qinglian herself is very intelligent and was admitted as soon as she took the exam. The old man recalled that at that time, the War of Resistance was very tense, and there were not enough people to recruit temporarily. Four women, sixteen men, arrived in Chongqing on June 8 without training. Ten people were assigned to the Translation and Telecommunications Section of the Headquarters of the Military Command bureau.
Wang Qinglian and ten other people were sent to the ciqikou paper mill to do printing work, because the enemy aircraft bombed heavily, in order to protect the codebook, so the secret capital unit was set up in the countryside. In April 1944, she was transferred back to the South China Unit of the Translation and Telecommunications Section of the Bureau Headquarters as a translator, with the rank of warrant officer and receiving the salary of a second lieutenant.
Dai Kasa, the first in command of the Military Command Bureau, and Mao Renfeng, the second in command, were both Jiangshan people, and the bureau headquarters had eight divisions, a secretary's office, and a translation and telecommunications department. Most of the bureau headquarters are Jiangshan people, and it is not easy to mix in with the spies. Wang Wei, head of the South China Unit of the Translation and Telecommunications Department, is her uncle, and the heads of several other East China Shares, North China Units, and Secret Capital Units are also fellow villagers.
The whole office speaks Jiangshan dialect, and no one else understands it. In the military command, I lived a very regular life as an interpreter, working 4 hours in the morning, 4 hours in the afternoon, and 2 hours in the evening. The telegrams in south China were all translated by Wang Qinglian and others, and there were all kinds of situations, but there were more Japanese people.
Passwords are numbers, can not be directly translated, to do subtraction first, and then go to different codebooks, some are very complicated. Due to Wang Qinglian's low level of education, she had to work harder. Although the chief of the unit is his uncle, he is very strict with Wang Qinglian, and he cannot be translated and redone, and the task cannot be completed without overtime.
As for the ruler of the military command, Wang Qinglian remembered that "Dai Kasa gave me a more decent impression." Wang Qinglian and others do not call him Director Dai, they all call him Boss Dai. Whisper "The boss is coming", and everyone quickly and honestly work. In his memory, Dai Kasa pays great attention to his appearance, and his Zhongshan costume style buckle is very neatly buckled.
The staff of the Military Command Bureau, the men wore Zhongshan uniforms, the women wore light blue cheongsam, once the General Affairs Office issued a set of military civilian clothes, there was a female comrade we are all called comrades, she wore it, showed it to the boss of Dai, and immediately ordered the General Affairs Office to take it.
Dai Kasa was also strict with himself. Every Monday morning, as long as he is in Chongqing, he will come to the headquarters of the bureau to do a commemorative week. He talked about the international situation above, and sometimes forgot to tell us to "take a break", so we stood straight for several hours, and he stood on the stage for several hours. The auditorium is also a canteen, and there is a meal after the report is done.
Eight people at a table, the boss also eats, meat dishes are beef shredded fried sweet potatoes. Zhang Shizhao wrote a couplet to Dai Kasa: "Born for the country, died for the country, lived a chivalrous and righteous style, the coffin of merit and crime is still undecided; the reputation is all over the world, the slander is all over the world, and the spring and autumn events in the chaotic world are left for future generations to comment." ”
In this regard, Wang Qinglian believes that "Dai Kasa is a powerful person, but there are bad and good ones." Including the Military Command Bureau, the Military Command Bureau not only engaged in counter-revolutionary work, but also contributed to the War of Resistance, sacrificing 18,000 people in the War of Resistance, intelligence against Japan, and assassination of Wang Jingwei. ”
As a translator of the military command, Wang Qinglian naturally also knew that the military command made a "great battle merit" during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. To be precise, it was a miracle during the anti-fascist war in the world, but unfortunately, the American allies at that time did not care about the reminder of the military command, which is well known to everyone, and the military command deciphered the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
In the early 1940s, the Telecommunications Department of the Military Command bureau had more than 4,000 staff and hundreds of radio stations. In addition to the stationing of radio stations in all field areas, stations and offices, the military command has also been equipped with branches in some regional branches and for most field intelligence units. The huge telecommunications network covers major cities and regions along China's coastal and inland areas, greatly improving the efficiency of military unification.
At the same time, the military command telecommunications personnel have undergone professional study and training to strengthen their professional skills, and their professional standards have reached the world's top level, and many outstanding "secret warfare" masters have emerged. From May 1941 to early December, when Chi Buzhou, a telecommunications expert at the "Special Technology Research and Application Office" of the Military Command, deciphered Japan's diplomatic secret telegrams, he found that the number of telegrams exchanged between the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu had suddenly increased dramatically, and only sixty or seventy secret telegrams had been deciphered.
In these secret telegrams, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs repeatedly asked the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu to report on the number of US warships in Pearl Harbor, the name of the ship, the location of the berthing, the time of entry and exit, the time and law of rest of the US troops in Pearl Harbor, and the answer was "Sunday" and the climate situation in Hawaii.
Chi Buzhou, combined with the telegrams he had deciphered from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Consulate General in Honolulu for more than half a year, already felt that Japan was about to "take decisive action" against the United States, and he immediately handed this secret telegram to the group leader Huo Shizi and made two judgments: Japan may launch an attack on Pearl Harbor in the United States;
The attack time may be chosen on Sunday. Huo Shizi did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately reported to Mao Qingxiang, the acting director who had been Chiang Kai-shek's confidential secretary, and Mao immediately personally sent him to the attendant's room after reading it. It was December 3, 1941, just five days after pearl harbor. After the Bureau of Military Command deciphered the secret telegram that the Japanese Navy was about to attack Pearl Harbor, it reported to Chiang Kai-shek that Major Xiao Bo, deputy military attaché of the Chinese Embassy in the United States and station chief of the New York Station of the Military Command, immediately informed the Pentagon.
Later historians suspect that President Roosevelt actually obtained the Japanese plan through different channels, but deliberately filtered this strategic intelligence in order to break isolationism and awaken the American people. Although the US authorities did not pay attention to the military command briefing, the military command won the favor and respect of the US side: the outbreak of the "Pearl Harbor incident" a few days later proved the excellent ability of the military command telecommunications department.
The incident not only directly led to the declaration of war by the United States on Japan and won the most powerful ally for China, but also the US military officially began to cooperate with China in the field of special technology, and the "Sino-US Special Technical Cooperation Institute" was born. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1945, the staff of the Military Command bureau flew back to Nanjing in batches.
Wang Qinglian's work performance was not good, the group leader did not let her go back early, she made an appointment with 6 colleagues, took a car and train by herself, and returned to the headquarters of the Nanjing Bureau in July 1946 to report. The next month, Wang Qinglian applied and broke away from the organization, after Dai Kasa's death, Mao Renfeng took over, and the military command was also reorganized into the Secrecy Bureau, as for the reason for leaving the Secrecy Bureau, it was Wang Qinglian who could not rest assured of her mother at home. In 1949, the Military Command Bureau withdrew to Taiwan, and superiors and colleagues asked Wang Qinglian to go with them. Wang Qinglian said, I don't go, I went to my mother what to do.
After liberation, in 1951, when Wang Qinglian was only 24 years old, she confessed her history to the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau without reservation. Later, he first worked in the Hangzhou White Meat Market and then went to the Grain Bureau. Wang Qinglian's experience in military command inevitably brought negative effects to her, and she also suffered a lot because of this.
In 1979, when the policy was implemented, her husband was rehabilitated first, and that night we hugged and cried together, and finally survived to the end. Wang Qinglian herself implemented the policy in 1981, recalling this history, Wang Qinglian's heart is still grateful to the party and the state, she said that in the countryside for 23 years also gave me a number of years of service, to now I retired for 31 years, the party and the state raised me for 31 years, the old age can live in peace and security, I thank the party from the heart, this is my heartfelt words.
After telling the story of the old man Wang Qinglian, and then talking about the remaining two old people, compared to Wang Qinglian's ordinary civilian staff, Dai Yiqian's identity is more sensitive, from the surname point of view, you can guess that he and the military commander Dai Kasa, there may be a relationship. In fact, according to the genealogy of Jiangshan's hometown, he called Dai Kasa "Ten Uncles" in the generations.
Long before joining the military command, Dai Yiqian had the experience of joining the army, he had fought in the battlefield of the War of Resistance, and in 1943, at the age of eighteen, Dai Yiqian was assigned to work in the National Army Office in Jiangxi.
By chance, he received Dai Kasa, who had come to Jiangxi to inspect, and Dai Kasa also realized that this young and promising young fellow was also a "relative". As mentioned earlier, Dai Kasa's employment in the military command is very trusting of fellow villagers, and Dai Yiqian was naturally recruited into the military command and became Dai Kasa's own confidential secretary.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Dai Yiqian relied on his extraordinary courage and flexible countermeasures to negotiate with Japanese spies and intercepted a lot of valuable intelligence and information, which contributed to the War of Resistance.
However, with the change of the situation, Dai Yiqian himself did not see clearly that during the Liberation War, he still insisted on serving the reactionaries, and even used intelligence to expose many underground workers of our party. After Dai Kasa's death, the military command was reorganized, and this red man who had once been dai boss did not stay in Nanjing, but chose to go to Beiping to defect to Fu Zuoyi.
After the peaceful liberation of Peiping, Dai Yiqian surrendered with the army, and his past resume also truthfully confessed, although the anti-Japanese merits, but the reactionary crimes can not be spared, after the merits were offset, he was sentenced to five years in prison. While Dai Yiqian was serving his sentence, his wife was afraid of being implicated and left to remarry.
After his release from prison, Dai Yiqian was already alone, and he returned to his hometown to become a farmer. In his later years, Dai Yiqian was not in good health, so the government arranged for him to live in a nursing home, paying a monthly allowance, and there were also volunteers to visit, he wondered if there would be anyone on the mainland, like himself? He mentioned the incident to the volunteers, thinking of finding an old man in the local area who was once a military agent like him.
After some searching, I really found two other people, the last of whom, Zhu Rinpo, his title in the military command, was different from them, he was an authentic professional technician, who was responsible for radio management and maintenance. At that time, there were very few relevant professionals, and Zhu Rinpo was not a highly educated person, he engaged in radio work, out of a passion, and the nature of his work was more pure than that of spies and agents, so after liberation, Zhu Rinpo's treatment was different, and his superiors sent him to the farm to work as an electrical maintenance worker.
When Rinpoche himself heard that he could still do a professional job, he was very satisfied, and he happily ran to the country farm with his small luggage. At first, the villagers heard that this maintenance worker had been a secret agent and refused to associate with him, but Zhu Rinpo himself was very sincere, did not shy away from the past, the attitude of transformation was very good, and he was also enthusiastic about repairing things for the villagers, and after a long time, he became a respected local maintenance worker.
In 2013, when volunteers came to the door to inquire, dai Yiqian and Wang Qinglian, former military command agents, were still alive, Zhu Rinpo readily agreed to the meeting. Sixty-four years after the three of them became anonymous, the former "colleagues" of the military command met again and left several shadows. Between the conversations and laughter, the past has passed, and the three of them enjoy their old age in peace, but they have a wish.