This is a case of theft of military secrets that shocked the central government. On March 20, 1992, a number of confidential military documents disappeared from the compound of the military organ in Lianjiang, Fujian Province, and once these documents fell into the hands of the Kuomintang in Taiwan, the whole of Fujian would be in jeopardy.
In order to avoid the leakage of military secrets, the Nanjing Military Region and the Fujian Military Region immediately dispatched, and Major General Zheng Shichao, Colonel Sui Shengwu, and Colonel Qu Wen, an expert in solving the case, rushed to the scene of the crime overnight, and a very urgent arrest operation was imminent.
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In the heavily guarded military compound, who would dare to steal confidential military documents? What is the purpose of the thieves stealing these documents? What happened to the thief in the end?
Confidential documents were stolen, and the "god cat" intervened to solve the case
At 9:00 a.m. on March 20, 1990, Major Liu Xiaogen, as usual, went through layers of security checks and entered the data warehouse to look for documents, but he had just opened the file box, and a terrible thing happened...
I saw that the box that was supposed to be filled with documents was empty at the moment. Liu Xiogen's brain was suddenly blank, because he knew that the documents in this document box were all military secrets, including three top-secret documents of "Combating Small Armed Raids and Disturbances", as well as many confidential documents such as "Formation and Operation of the Forward Command Post of the Brigade Headquarters".
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These lost documents not only record the action plan of our army's troops, but also record in detail the situation of our army's relations with Taiwan; if they are stolen by people with ulterior motives, they will quickly fall into the hands of the Kuomintang in less than a day, and then the Kuomintang troops will not only make a response plan, but may also make more radical moves.
Faced with such an urgent emergency, Liu Xiogen broke into a cold sweat and did not dare to delay in the slightest, and he immediately issued an alarm to the relevant departments: confidential documents were lost, and military operations were very likely to be leaked...
As soon as the news of the loss of military documents came out, the entire Lianjiang County was immediately under martial law, especially the coast leading to Matsu was heavily guarded. The troops of our army stationed in Lianjiang immediately launched an internal investigation, but it took a full 15 hours, and the relevant departments did not find any clues. And just when all the investigators were at a loss, the arrival of a "big man" made everyone suddenly cheer up the spirit of twelve points.
At 1:00 a.m. on the 21st, a black car drove into the compound of the military organ where the crime occurred, and a few minutes later, a man in military uniform got out of the car and hurried into the office building. After seeing this scene, Liu Xiogen immediately stepped forward and said: "General Zheng, there is no clue yet..." Yes, this man was Major General Zheng Shichao, who was then the political commissar of the Fujian Military Region, and his arrival also brought new hope to this "theft of military secrets."
At that time, the Fujian Military Region was under the direct jurisdiction of the Nanjing Military Region, and after listening to Liu Xigen's detailed description of the case, Zheng Shichao suddenly realized that this case was likely to be a "special enemy case," and he immediately reported it to the Nanjing Military Region. At noon that day, the Nanjing Military Region called two people, one was Colonel Sui Shengwu who was far away in Shanghai, and the other was Colonel Quwen in Hangzhou, and the instructions they received were exactly the same: they must solve the case as soon as possible at all costs and immediately set off for Lianjiang.
If the arrival of Colonel Sui Shengwu is a routine event, then the arrival of Colonel Quwen is enough to reflect the importance attached by the central government to this case of document theft. After all, Colonel Qu Wen, known as the "Divine Cat", will only personally go out when he encounters a particularly urgent case. And as the investigation work unfolded, the staff in several military compounds quickly aroused Qu Wen's suspicions...
The case was stripped away and the murderer surfaced
This is the most urgent military case since the founding of New China, several confidential documents were suddenly stolen under heavy military guard, and if the real culprit cannot be caught in the shortest possible time, the situation in the Taiwan Strait will surely usher in a new crisis.
After Qu Wen arrived at the scene of the crime, he immediately conducted a careful investigation of the scene. Through the investigation, Qu Wen quickly made a judgment: the perpetrator did not have professional training, but he was very familiar with the terrain of the scene, and it was likely that it was not the first time to commit the crime.
Qu Wen made this judgment because he found that there were very obvious gray-black marks on the outer edge of the door frame, and the ventilation window and the side wall were also covered with climbing marks, and the iron nails used to hang things behind the door frame had also been bent, and the messy footprints and fingerprints could be extracted from the handle of the ventilation window and the wall.
Through the analysis of fingerprints and footprints on the door, Qu Wen quickly judged that the time of theft by the perpetrator should be between February 17 and February 20. After understanding the guards in the army compound, Qu Wen made a bold judgment: the thief was likely to be a staff member in the army organ compound.
When Qu Wen inspected the compound, he found that the guards of the entire compound were very strict, not only there were guards at the gate, but also every building and every floor was guarded, and ordinary people could not enter the courtyard at all, but the location where the confidential documents were stolen just did not set up guard soldiers, which showed that the perpetrators could not only enter and leave the army compound at will, but also very familiar with the guards at each position in the compound.
The time of the crime is determined, the approximate scope of the perpetrators is also determined, and the next thing that needs to be done is to first screen out the list of people who have approached the data warehouse in the three days from February 17th to 20th, and then confirm them one by one.
With the active cooperation of Liu Xigen, the list of suspicious personnel was soon released, but after getting this list, Qu Wen sighed deeply, and he immediately asked: "Why is it that such an important place as the data warehouse is not strictly guarded, and even the cooks and drivers can get close?" Despite his doubts, Qu Wen is also very clear that the most important thing at the moment is not to pursue responsibility, but to seize the time to find the real culprit and quickly retrieve the stolen confidential documents. To this end, Qu Wen began a one-on-one interrogation process day and night.
On the entire list of suspects, there were three people who most suspicious of Qu Wen, one was the head of the logistics cooking squad, one was the hygienist in the compound of the military organ, and the last one was the driver of the logistics transport company. These three people's work has nothing to do with the data warehouse, what is the purpose of their approach to the data warehouse?
After detailed questioning, qu Wen's three suspects were all ruled out, and nearly 48 hours had passed since the crime, but the investigation of the case had once again reached a dead end. Qu Wen is very clear that if the case is detected one second late, the possibility of the confidential documents leaking is one point more. And just when Qu Wen was at a loss, a name that had been omitted suddenly attracted Qu Wen's attention.
The arrests were a resounding success, and the classified documents were not at risk
This is a "spy case" that makes the whole army furious. For a few hundred yuan, a cooker went so far as to sell our army's confidential documents to Kuomintang agents in Taiwan nine times, and as the arrest operation unfolded, a shocking network of Taiwan spies gradually surfaced.
In the course of interrogating the personnel in the unit compound, Ye Mou, a soldier of the Logistics Department, inadvertently revealed that a former cooking squad leader of the Logistics Department named Lin Yueshan, after retiring from the army, often went in and out of the compound of the military organs in the name of visiting friends, and repeatedly boasted that he had acquaintances on the "other side." The speaker had no intention, the listener was intentional, Ye Mou's words immediately made Qu Wen increase his vigilance, and he immediately sent someone to conduct a comprehensive investigation of Lin Yueshan.
The investigation found that Lin Yueshan was originally only a peasant from the countryside of Fujian, and after joining the army, he quickly became the head of the cooking squad of the logistics department with his outstanding ability.
After determining Lin Yueshan's major suspicions, the special police of the military region and major relevant departments immediately launched a secret arrest of Lin Yueshan. However, when the arresting personnel arrived at Lin Yueshan's residence, Lin Yueshan had already fled. In order to avoid striking grass and snakes, the special case team laid out a "clever situation".
In the afternoon of the same day, Lin Yueshan, who was worried and uneasy, suddenly received a notice from the Civil Affairs Bureau that he would arrange work for him and hoped that he would go to report. Lin Yueshan, who received this news, was overjoyed and immediately drove there, but when he just walked into the door of the Civil Affairs Bureau, a pair of cold handcuffs were clasped on his hands.
After inquiring about Lin Yueshan, he learned that he had already begun the crime of stealing intelligence before he retired from the army, and when he first made a profit of 200 yuan with an ordinary military textbook, Lin Yueshan's ambitions became more and more ambitious, and as of March 20, this was Lin Yueshan's 9th theft of military Chinese.
With Qu Wen's constant interrogation, Lin Yueshan quickly confessed to his leader, Sun Zhongjing, but when the police arrested Sun Zhongjing, he had already fled. However, it is gratifying that the police found the lost military secret documents at Sun Zhongjing's residence. A month later, Sun Zhongjing was caught by the police on his way to escape. Soon after, Lin Yueshan and Sun Zhongjing were arrested and imprisoned for "espionage," and both were sentenced to five years in prison and deprived of their political rights for two years.
Both Lin Yueshan and Sun Zhongjing were arrested and brought to justice, but the theft of military secret documents was far from over, because through the interrogation of these two people, it was found that there was a huge Taiwan spy network lurking in the Lianjiang area.
Lianjiang and Matsu were only about 10 nautical miles, and matsu had been occupied by the Kuomintang in Taiwan since the end of the Liberation War, but with the relaxation of cross-strait relations, the Kuomintang intelligence department began to bribe the local residents of Lianjiang through inducements and take military intelligence from these people. Throughout Lianjiang County, there may be the eyeliner of Taiwanese spies almost everywhere.
Location of Lianjiang County and matsu islands
However, with the arrest of Lin Yueshan and Sun Zhongjing, and the gradual destruction of the Kuomintang spy network in the Jiangsu area, it was even more difficult for the Taiwan Kuomintang to obtain intelligence by bribing local residents.
At all times, the interests of the state and the nation are above all else, and any act that threatens the security of the motherland and the honor of the nation is an act of traitor. If a person abandons the national righteousness and national security for the sake of personal interests, he will certainly be spurned by the world and condemned by history.