The year 1962 was an eventful autumn, in which our country had not yet emerged from the shadow of three years of natural disasters, with serious economic difficulties and a very difficult life for the people. In addition, India has constantly provoked in the southwest region and has continuously opened fire on Chinese border guards, killing and wounding many Chinese border guards.
At this time, the relationship between China and the Soviet Union was very tense, and the Soviet Union constantly transferred troops to China's border areas, posing a great threat to China. In April 1962, the Soviet Union also took advantage of the difficult situation in China's domestic economy to lure and coerce tens of thousands of border people in the Ili region to defect to the Soviet side through its institutions and personnel stationed in Xinjiang, China, which is the famous Ita Incident, when there were more than 100 people left in several counties.
The situation in the southeast coastal area was also very tense, and during the PLA's self-defense counterattack against India, Chiang Kai-shek felt that this was a good opportunity and sent a large number of secret agents to move into the mainland. In fact, after Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan, his intention to counterattack the mainland has never been broken, and he has also formulated a military plan of "three years of preparation, five years of counter-offensive, and ten years of success."
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Chiang Kai-shek wanted to send troops to the Korean battlefield as the US troops fought on the mainland, but this idea was soon shattered with the rout of the US army. In 1959, after three years of natural disasters on the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek saw an opportunity, he planned to form 50 divisions of troops to carry out a counter-offensive, in order to expand the strength, even the prisoners in prison were replenished into the army, Chiang Kai-shek also trained students to join the army.
In 1962, both India and the Kuomintang, which had shrunk in Taiwan, felt that the mainland's overall strength was weak and that it was a good opportunity to take advantage of the void. On October 20, 1962, the Indian army launched a full-line offensive, this time the People's Liberation Army did not retreat, but launched a full-scale counter-offensive, the battle lasted only three days, India's ace Seventh Brigade was completely destroyed, Darwi was captured on October 22, the battle lasted only one month, the battlefield situation was completely out of control, and the People's Liberation Army had an absolute advantage.
From October 1 to December 6, 1962, Chiang Kai-shek successively sent nine groups of spies from Kaohsiung by boat to the Haifeng, Huiyang, Taishan and other areas along the coast of Guangzhou.
On October 1, 1962, the first day of the National Day, the first batch of 14 agents landed in Haifeng County, Guangdong Province, and in the 1960s and 1970s, the anti-special consciousness of the people in coastal areas such as Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang was very strong. As soon as these agents landed, they were detected by the local people, and immediately reported to the local public security organs, under the command of the Haifeng County Party Committee, the militia, public security, and tens of thousands of people all went out, and it took only three days to arrest all 14 agents.
At three o'clock in the morning of October 7, the second group of 12 agents landed on an uninhabited desert island near Huiyang, Guangdong Province, and these Kuomintang agents originally thought they were going to take refuge on the desert island for two days, observe the situation, and then go inland. As a result, the fishermen saw it that morning and dragged the erasers of the agents away, and the local police, militia and these agents engaged in a fierce battle, killing 1 person and taking 11 prisoners. Since then, the Kuomintang has sent several groups of spies to smuggle them to the mainland, but none of them have stayed on the mainland for more than three days.
From October 1 to December 6, 1962, Chiang Kai-shek sent nine secret agents to the mainland, and eight smuggled them successfully. The PLA annihilated 172 agents, including seven special service column commanders and 14 deputy commanders, and captured a number of American-made radios, pistols, submachine guns, and three aircraft sailing ships.
These agents sent by Chiang Kai-shek came from three sources: first, professional agents of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau; second, officers and men drawn from the Kuomintang army; third, those who had fled from the southeast coastal area; and Zhuang Ding, who had been arrested from the southeast coast when retreating from the mainland; most of them were Cantonese and Fujianese; these people were relatively familiar with the geography and people's conditions of the mainland, and it was not easy to be detected when they were sent to the mainland.
Basically, these agents have been trained by the CIA, and the US intelligence department and the Kuomintang secret service have also jointly launched training courses such as "Haiwei," "Ban Chao," and "Changming." Taiwan's intelligence services have built a large number of fishing boats, sailboats, rubber boats, and even bamboo rafts as tools for smuggling to provide technical support for smuggling agents.
The Americans were not only responsible for training Taiwan spies, but also participated in the planning of smuggling programs, providing guns, ammunition, medicines, radios and other materials, and the "Haiwei Training Class" alone trained more than 80 spies, whose task was to quickly eliminate traces after going ashore, disguise themselves as plastered as plastered plausible plausible people, local cadres or militiamen, lurk to predetermined locations, establish guerrilla base areas, and lay the foundation for larger-scale operations in the future.
However, our intelligence department is not a vegetarian, and the South China Sea Fleet Reconnaissance Station has repeatedly cracked the telegrams sent by Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau to agents lurking on the mainland, the content of which is mainly to tell the hidden agents, asking them to be prepared and ready to receive the smuggled Kuomintang agents, so that the public security cadres and police of the People's Liberation Army can arrest the Kuomintang agents so accurately.
On December 6, 1962, after the last group of secret agents was captured, Luo Ruiqing called Ling Yun (the first minister of the Ministry of State Security), then deputy director of the First Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, and said: "Premier Zhou Enlai has instructed us that Taiwan has transported so many batches of secret agents to us, and we have all received them as usual. “
Ling Yun quickly drew up two telegrams, one to Ye Xiangji, director of Taiwan's Military Intelligence Bureau, and the contents of the telegram were: "Mr. Ye Xiangzhi, and convey to your President Jiang that all the gifts have been received, and if Mongolia continues to deliver them in the future, we will continue to receive them as usual." Another letter to the CIA office in Taiwan reads: "Please convey to your head of the secret service that the gift has been received and that we will continue to receive it as usual if it continues to be delivered." Mr. Ye Xiangzhi has sent a special telegram to advise. ”