introduction
The full name of the military command is the "Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Military Commission," and it is one of the two major secret service organizations under Chiang Kai-shek that are frightening, and Dai Kasa, the chief of the military command, has always been Chiang Kai-shek's right and left arm, and has left a strong mark in both the annals of history and the film and television dramas. However, many people did not expect that the Military Command Bureau had a total of four directors, and there was no famous Dai Kasa among them. Although Dai Kasa single-handedly controlled the power of military unification, he was only the deputy director until his death.
Li
In 1937, Chiang Kai-shek merged the two kuomintang's original secret service departments, the "Party Affairs Investigation Office" and the "Fuxing Society Secret Service Office," with the Military Command Bureau. At that time, Dai Kasa was only the director of the second division of the military command, and the first director of the military command bureau at his head was Chen Lifu, a big man of the Kuomintang and the founder of the Central Bureau of Unification. Chen Lifu was born in the Chen family, one of the four major families of the Kuomintang, with profound qualifications, and when Chiang Kai-shek was the president of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chen Lifu was his secretary.
In the face of such a big man as Chen Lifu, even if he was deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek, Dai Kasa, who graduated from the sixth phase of Huangpu, did not dare to confront him. However, after all, the Military Command Bureau was a merger of two secret service organizations, and the personnel of the two groups had their own interests and demands, and there were bound to be many internal contradictions. Dai Kasa did not dare to make an enemy of Chen Lifu, so he set his sights on Xu Enzeng. Xu En, who was once the director of the Military Unification Department, was at the same level as Dai Kasa, and the two of them fought for power and profit within the military unification, causing a lot of trouble that even Chiang Kai-shek could not look at.
Chen Lifu
In order to avoid internal friction and also for the needs of the War of Resistance, in 1938, Chiang Kai-shek established the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang", which later became the Central Unification. The Central Bureau of Unification was basically established with Xu Enzeng's former Military Unification Office as the team, while Dai Kasa remained in the military command and became the deputy director, and was promoted to major general, responsible for the specific work of the military command, officially beginning his career as a powerful secret service leader. As one of the creators of the Central Unification, Chen Lifu is still the head of the Military Command.
However, at this time, although Chen Lifu was the director of the Military Command, he was only in name, and it was Dai Kasa who really presided over the affairs. This situation lasted for nearly half a year, and in August 1938, He Yaozu, the elder of the Xiang Army, was transferred to the Military Commission as the director of the company, and this position happened to be the nominal superior of the Military Command Bureau, so He Yaozu naturally concurrently took the position of military command and became the second director of the Military Command Bureau. In fact, He Yaozu's ability to serve as the head of the military command bureau involves such a major position, which is related to his origin.
He Yaozu and Chiang Kai-shek
He Yaozu was a general in the Miscellaneous Army in his early years, and he won the trust of Chiang Kai-shek by virtue of his many years of southern conquest and northern warfare, and he was not from Huangpu, and he was innocent in the position of the Military Command Bureau, and being a nominal bureau chief could also reassure Chiang Kai-shek. Intelligence work on the battlefield was very important, and according to the regulations at that time, the information obtained by the military commander in charge of intelligence work was first passed on to the first place of the chairman's attendant room, which was equivalent to Chiang Kai-shek's military staff.
If the director of the ShiYi Section could be named as the director of the Military Command Bureau, then for the Kuomintang, the intelligence handover workflow would be much reduced, so in 1940, He Yaozu succeeded Zhang Zhizhong as the director, and since then, the director of the Military Command Bureau has been named by the director of the Shi Yi Bureau. However, although He Yaozu was an excellent soldier, he had different views from Chiang Kai-shek in some political views. Since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the whole country has united to resist Japan, but Chiang Kai-shek has not forgotten to exclude dissidents from time to time while confronting the enemy head-on.
Dai Kasa and Chiang Kai-shek
In this regard, He Yaozu disagreed with Chiang Kai-shek's ideas, and he always adhered to the idea of jointly resisting the war. At the end of 1942, a Soviet plane flying to Yan'an was seized by the Kuomintang, and when the information reached He Yaozu's hands, He Yaozu used the power of the Military Command Bureau to release the plane. After He Yaozu was dismissed, Chiang Kai-shek did not let Dai Kasa, who had long been in charge of the power of the Military Command Bureau, not become the chief director of the military command, but left the position of director vacant for more than a year.
With Dai Kasa's seniority and ability, there was no problem in becoming the director of the military command, but at that time, the director of the military command bureau was all served by the director of the first division, and Dai Kasa was a good hand at engaging in secret agents, but the position of director of the first division was not suitable for him. Lin Wei, who had originally taken over as the director of the first department, was a good choice, with many years of conquest, excellent military literacy, careful and cautious, and scheming, and it was just right to be the nominal director. However, Lin Wei was born in the Zhejiang Army and was An old subordinate of Chen Cheng, while Dai Kasa and Chen Cheng had always been at odds, so Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to accept this idea, and the position of director of the general's command was vacant.
Qian Dajun
In 1944, Chiang Kai-shek sent his confidant Qian Dajun to serve as the director of the first service department, and according to the custom, he also served as the director of the military command bureau, which ended the empty window of more than a year. However, Qian Dajun only had the title of bureau chief, and had never been able to handle the affairs of the military command and did not interfere with Dai Kasa's work. Moreover, Qian Dajun is greedy for money and lustful, Dai Kasa throws in his favor, often uses gold and silver jewelry to honor, Qian Dajun will not make trouble for Dai Kasa, and is at ease to be a nominal bureau chief. As the power of the Military Command Bureau expanded more and more, Chiang Kai-shek could not help but be wary of Dai Kasa, a confidant.
He specially set up a "five-member group" to supervise the Military Command Bureau, of which Chiang Kai-shek himself served as the leader of the group, and Qian Dajun, Hu Zongnan, Tang Zhong, and Xuan Tiewu served as the members of the group. However, Hu Zongnan and Dai Kasa intersected, and Qian Dajun was more respected by Dai Kasa, and the supervision of this so-called "five-person group" was better than nothing. In 1946, Dai died in a plane crash, and the once-famous secret service chief ended his life. However, although Dai Kasa died, the work of the Military Command Bureau would continue.
Zheng Jiemin
As a result, Zheng Jiemin, who was then the "chief secretary", was transferred to the post of provisional director of the Military Command, and later he became the director of the Secrecy Bureau and continued to carry out secret service work for the Kuomintang. Since the establishment of the Military Command Bureau, the secret agents of the military command have been active in the front line of espionage, secretly fought with Japanese spies during the War of Resistance Against Japan, cracked a lot of important intelligence, and made considerable contributions to the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan.