On September 26, 1950, on the eve of the first anniversary of the founding of New China, Luo Ruiqing, then minister of public security, and Yang Qiqing, vice minister of public security, looked hurried, without the calm and calm of the past, rushed to Zhongnanhai and went straight to Premier Zhou's office.
Figure | Zhou Enlai
Premier Zhou asked the two why they were in a hurry, and Luo Ruiqing sent an air express message intercepted by the Ministry of Public Security from the Beijing International Post Office to Tokyo, Japan, which read:
"CIC Headquarters:
The purchased fire extinguisher is scheduled to ship on October 1. Everything went according to the established plan. Warm greetings!
Great"
If china and Japan had not established diplomatic relations at that time, the content still seemed bland, but what appeared suspicious was that the email also contained a pencil drawing on the banks of the Jinshui Bridge and the Tiananmen Tower, as well as two thick black arc drawings with arrows, one pointing to the top of the Tiananmen Tower and the other to the center of the review platform, that is, the position of the leader of the Central Committee of our Party.
After reading this email, Premier Zhou fell into contemplation, and then said word by word: "This case is likely to be a foreign-related case, involving many forces and greater international influence, you must seriously deal with it, and you must not make a mistake!" ”
Luo Ruiqing said: "Prime Minister, this email was intercepted by us on September 26, and after several days of investigation, we have identified several main criminals and are now ready to arrest them!" ”
This is the first earth-shattering case that broke out in the first anniversary celebration after the founding of New China, why is there an undercurrent in Beijing than usual? Who sent the email? Who are the planners and perpetrators of this case? What is their purpose?
After the end of World War II, the strength of many European countries was greatly weakened, the world gradually presented a situation of bipolar hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union, the People's Liberation Army only took three years to defeat the Kuomintang reactionaries' army, and on October 1, 1949 to establish a new China, on the surface it seems that the wind is calm, the people can live a stable life, but in fact, the waves are turbulent, the remnants of the Kuomintang reactionaries and imperialist forces can not tolerate their own defeat, leaving a large number of agents of different nationalities and identities on the mainland. Attempts were made to carry out attacks in various places to disrupt the process of socialist construction on the mainland.
Figure | Minister of Public Security Luo Ruiqing
In order to consolidate the nascent regime and protect the interests of the people, the Ministry of Public Security set up a special task force to sweep away all kinds of spies nationwide, arresting more than 10,000 secret agents in Beijing alone, but there are still many foreigners settled in Beijing.
So the Ministry of Public Security increased the scope of the search, a detailed investigation of the identity of foreign expatriates living in Beijing, and soon in a Japanese clinic, the suspect Ryuichi Yamaguchi was found, and after Shunto touched the melon, everyone found that this was an organized and premeditated National Day shelling of Tiananmen, in which there were three core figures involved in the plan, in addition to Ryuichi Yamaguchi, the other two were Bao Ruide and The Italian Lee Andong, who had served as the military attaché of the US Embassy in China.
As early as the period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Bao Ruide came to Yan'an as an international observation group composed of 18 people, and the purpose of their coming this time was to understand the intelligence and strategic materials of the Japanese army collected by our army on the battlefield and to seek cooperation with our party and our army.
Usually, not only grassroots fighters, but even the leaders of the Party Central Committee eat chaff vegetables, and can only eat meat once or twice a year, but when they are entertained, they are full of eggs, chicken, fresh vegetables, and it is not rich, and at the end of the observation group's trip, Bao Ruide also accepted the medal of Yan'an under the witness of Chairman Mao and Zhu Laozong, which is an extremely glorious thing, but Bao Ruideen will take revenge, during the liberation war, blindly support the Kuomintang reactionaries, so as to use his position as a military attaché in the embassy to amass wealth. Enjoy the depraved life of a paper drunkard.
However, the good times did not last long, the CPC stood on the stand of the people, so that the People's Liberation Army quickly annihilated millions of troops of the Kuomintang reactionaries with the momentum of the wind and clouds, Chiang Kai-shek led the remnants of the army to quickly defeat Taiwan, the domestic capital faced a major reshuffle, and the industries operated by Bao Ruide in the early stage were transformed or confiscated, for which he was indignant.
When Bao Ruide last took a special plane to meet Chairman Mao as a member of the observation group, the atmosphere was very delicate, and the Chinese Communists still warmly welcomed the US military observation group, hoping that they would not meddle in China's internal affairs, would not favor Chiang Kai-shek, and respect the real ideas of the Chinese people. ”
Figure | Zhu De (first from left), Bao Ruide (center) and Chairman Mao (first from right)
Chairman Mao said solemnly: "Mr. Bao, you are reversing black and white; since ancient times, the practice of conforming to the trend of history has conformed to the true will of the people; only by truly thinking of the people and listening to their voices can we truly serve the people; Chiang Kai-shek has signed an armistice agreement with us, but he has disregarded the aspirations of the broad masses of the people in the country for lasting peace and building a homeland, and in order to realize the dominance of one party and do his dictatorial dream, he brazenly launched an all-out attack on our major liberated areas and once again marched the country into the abyss of civil war." Such a talent is called a secession! ”
Bao Ruide did not listen to Chairman Mao's words, and then said: "You should not form a Yan'an government, this is to split the state power and national interests, you only need to maintain a Nanjing government, so that China can develop rapidly in a peaceful environment!" ”
These remarks undoubtedly show that Bo Ruide has never looked up to the ability of the CCP to govern the country and the country, believing that Communists are only worthy of obedience, and only if the Kuomintang can satisfy their own selfish interests, is orthodox.
After hearing this, Chairman Mao was very angry and said: "Since the Zhongshan Ship incident, Chiang Kai-shek has been constantly working hard to make people's livelihood and money, attacking troops that do not conform to his own political views, so that it is a dictatorship, and if we want to realize the reunification of the country, it is not that whoever has a large ruling area and the large number of troops will have the final say, but to see who can win the hearts and minds of the people. ”
Figure | Chairman Mao (front row, first from left) and Bao Ruide (front row, first from right)
Bao Ruide was dumbfounded, and could only hope in his heart that the Kuomintang could achieve a great victory through the help of the US army and eliminate the People's Liberation Army, but he finally underestimated the strength and determination of the people, the Chinese people have been oppressed and oppressed since the Opium War, this is the last opportunity to turn over and be the master, must be firmly grasped, even if the enemy is the US army, there is no need to be afraid, just like in the Huaihai Campaign, Chen Yi said that the victory in this battle was pushed out by the common people with a cart.
Ryuichi Yamaguchi was a Japanese man who studied at Kyoto Imperial University in his early years, and was commissioned by the Japanese Navy in 1938 to come to China as the deputy director of the Beijing office of the North China Shipping Association.
After Japan's defeat in the war, he not only did not repent, but instead joined the US secret service "American Strategic Intelligence Agency" and established contact with Andong Lee, an Italian who joined the secret service at the same time. Lee was a complete war maniac, who came from Italy to Tianjin, China in 1919 to sell arms for a living.
At the beginning of 1950, the US Consulate in Peiping was holding a luncheon, which was also the last "carnival" of the Americans in the Chinese mainland, after all, the US government did not recognize new China at all, and the united countries surrounded and blocked the mainland economically, politically, and militarily, and did not recognize the mainland's legitimate seat in the United Nations.
The atmosphere of lunch is more delicate, some people think that this may be the last time to eat in China, some people have a ghost fetus, in short, there are not many people communicating, Lee Andong and Yamaguchi Ryuichi are sitting in two non-adjacent positions, they sometimes look at the door, sometimes look at each other, just when the lunch is about to end, Bao Ruide walked into the venue, he raised his wine glass and walked to the table of the two people, saying a repeating sentence: "I wish you a prosperous business in the future, and you can do a big business!" ”
After saying this, all three of them showed an evil smile, it turned out that Bo Ruide was about to leave China, but he had already given Lee and Takashi Yamaguchi a task, that is, the two stayed in Beijing, continued to serve the US intelligence service, and when the time was ripe, they would carry out assassination missions.
After the luncheon, Takaichi Yamaguchi came to Andong Lee's house, the two closed the doors and windows, and began to discuss the plan of action, Li Andong said: "I have a mortar here, and when I find a suitable opportunity, I will fight in the position of the leader of the Ccp!" ”
Ryuichi Yamaguchi said: "October 1 is the first anniversary of the founding of New China, they will definitely hold a large celebration, then Mao Zedong, Zhu De and others will definitely attend the celebration, we must do some preparatory work now!" ”
Since May, Yamaguchi Ryuichi has often been around Tiananmen Square, carefully observing the surrounding buildings, in order not to let our personnel find out, he did not bring a tape measure, paced the distance of the square with his feet, and grasped in detail the location of the national leaders who may attend the National Day ceremony, after returning to his residence, he drew a map of the measured data and the buildings he saw, and made a more detailed explanation in Japanese, which read: "Whenever the government celebrates, people with prestige in the government must stand on the tower of Tiananmen City. This is to review the parade of the army and the people, and the most central position of the city tower is the position of Mao Zedong's station! ”
Figure | Ryuichi Yamaguchi
In order to ensure that they could "hit the target with one blow," Lee and Ryuichi Yamaguchi developed a number of notorious spies, such as Henry, Gannas, Ma Di coward, Zheli, and Ma Xinqing.
However, as long as it is a criminal act, it will certainly show its feet, Luo Ruiqing has already arranged a large number of plainclothes police in the city of Beijing, found a group of foreigners with suspicious appearance, and immediately after receiving instructions from Premier Zhou, he asked Cao Chunzhi, head of the reconnaissance section, to carry out a close reconnaissance operation.
In September 1950, Lee invited Ryuichi Yamaguchi and others to his home, and several people raised a toast to celebrate, and Lee excitedly said to the crowd: "The CIA has agreed to our plan, promised us the conditions for completing the plan!" ”
Takaichi Yamaguchi said: "We have been in China for so many years, we have long had enough, especially after the birth of this new regime led by the Ccp, we have to live every day in fear, life is not as good as before, as long as this time can successfully implement the predetermined plan, we can ask the Americans for credit, get countless gold and silver treasures!" ”
Li Andong asked, "Mr. Yamaguchi, you have been measuring Tiananmen Square for several months, and you are already very familiar with it, right?" ”
Ryuichi Yamaguchi replied, "Yes, I have mapped the complete terrain and prepared to send it to Tokyo, which indicates that on the day of China's first National Day, the CCP leaders will stand on the Tiananmen Tower, and as soon as they announce the start of the celebration, we will take advantage of the chaos to fire shells!" ”
The scouts who were crouching near Li Andong's house immediately reported the incident to Cao Chunzhi, who thought that the fox tails of these people were finally exposed, and he wanted to continue to dig deep to see how many people could be caught, and he ordered a group of scouts to monitor Li Andong and the others 24 hours a day.
On the night of September 25, the scouts found the dream of the music department assistant of Peking University in front of the door of another planner, Zhe Li, who entered Zhe Li's house and had a brief exchange with the latter in English before leaving in a hurry.
Here is a brief introduction to Cheng Meng, who once learned piano from Zheli's Soviet wife, Imena, who separated from Zheli after the liberation of Peiping and followed Bao Ruide to Taiwan.
According to the news reported by the neighborhood committee where Cheng Meng was located, Cheng Meng's sister Cheng Na also came from Hong Kong to Beijing to visit her relatives, Cheng Na and Cheng Meng graduated from Yenching University, her husband is a British, before the liberation of the liberation and had close business dealings with Bao Ruide, and now opened a foreign firm in Hong Kong.
The scouts found that both cheng meng and the sisters were more or less related to the name "Bao Ruide", was it an accident that the sisters appeared in Beijing at this time? With the idea that he would rather interrogate ten thousand than let one person go, Cao Chunzhi ordered the scouts to take Cheng Na to the Public Security Bureau for investigation.
Figure | Borid
Cheng Na came to the Public Security Bureau for the first time, terrified of everything here, and the scout found a rouge box in her bag, opened the box, and inside it was half a business card, and the name printed on it was Bao Ruide.
Cao Chunzhi smiled and said, "Comrade, what purpose did you have in returning to Beijing this time besides visiting your relatives?" ”
Cheng Na did not make a sound, cao Chunzhi asked directly: "We know the relationship between your husband and Bao Ruide, you say it directly, are you here this time to do something for you?" ”
As soon as Cheng Na heard the name Bao Ruide, her eyes widened, and she said: "How do you know him, I met Bao Ruide through my husband, we are ordinary friends, not the relationship you imagined, this time in addition to going back to Beijing to visit my parents, I was also entrusted by Bao Ruide to give this half business card to Mr. Zheli, ask him to sell the piano that Imena stored in my sister Cheng Meng's home, and then send the money over, things are so simple, Cheng Meng has contacted Mr. Zheli in advance, Tomorrow I will see Zheli in person! ”
Cao Chunzhi said to her solemnly: "Comrade, you have been shot by Bao Ruide, and you are still in the dark, he is nominally the military attaché of the US ambassador to China, but he is always anti-communist, we have investigated his real identity is the head of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency in Beijing, you came to Beijing with the business card he gave, this is the evidence of espionage!" ”
Cheng Na was shocked and hurriedly explained: "This is my husband who asked me to do this, I didn't know it, he asked me to sell the piano and send money!" ”
Cao Chunzhi said: "What to buy a piano, obviously just write a letter to Zhe Li, why do you want you to come to Beijing to hand it to him in person, confess and be lenient!" ”
Cheng Na said: "I remembered, Bao Ruide also asked me to bring a word to ZheLi, saying that our foreign firm has been very tightly checked recently, and the business is not very good!" ”
Cao Chunzhi immediately found the cat in it, smiled and said, "Haven't you found the mystery in it?" Zheli is not a businessman, so why did Bao Ruide inform him of the bad business of the foreign firm? This was the spy word they had discussed beforehand, and this was the next step to Zheli and the others! ”
Cheng Na woke up from a big dream and said, "I have been blinded by them before, I now know that I have done something that endangers the country and the people, and I will reform myself with Cheng Meng and cooperate with you in your work!" ”
Figure | Andon Lee
On September 26, scouts asked Cheng Nayo Zheli to go to the designated location, and police officers lurked nearby. In a café shop, Cheng Na handed Bao Ruide's half business card to Zheli, who immediately reacted to what was going on and quickly drove to Li Andong's residence, and Li Andong was overjoyed after getting the business card, saying: "No problem, the code is right, we have the opportunity to make a fortune." He immediately informed Ryuichi Yamaguchi to contact Tokyo.
Takaichi Yamaguchi is also a very sinister and cunning person, in order not to reveal his identity, he deliberately came to Dongjiaomin Lane, found an Iraqi woman selling smoked fish, handed her the map, and paid her an extra commission, let her mail on her behalf, and all this was always under the surveillance of our scouts, that morning, the Iraqi woman at the Dongdan International Post Office after the air express, the mail arrived in the hands of Cao Chunzhi unchanged.
Di Fei, director of the reconnaissance department of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, was shocked after reading this draft drawing, and felt that the situation was very serious, and he took a picture of the drawing and immediately presented it to Li Guoxiang, director of the reconnaissance department of the Ministry of Public Security.
Li Guoxiang immediately held a special meeting to accurately analyze Thatoguchi Ryuichi's attempt to carry out attacks on National Day, and since he was close to the neighboring country's festival, Li Guoxiang immediately reported the news to Peng Zhen, the mayor of Beijing, who after considering it for a while, said: "Obviously, these two parabolas are the trajectory of the shells hitting Tiananmen Square, so that we are divided into two ways, I will inform Comrade Luo Ruiqing, let him ask Premier Zhou, you must strictly control this case, distinguish other people who have no direct relationship, arrest only the main criminals, and quickly investigate others. Even the personnel of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency, as long as they are not the main criminals and have no direct evidence, cannot move them; it is related to the mainland's diplomatic trends, and these principal criminals actually want to kill Chairman Mao and other leaders of the Party Central Committee and sabotage the mainland's National Day. ”
Figure | Peng Zhen
After further investigation, Li Guoxiang announced: "After our investigation and handling, US imperialist spies attempted to shell Tiananmen Square on the mainland's National Day, assassinate Chairman Mao and other party Central Leaders, create international chaos, and commit the most heinous crimes. ”
Subsequently, Cao Chunzhi divided the special case team into four action teams and acted separately to arrest the main suspects.
When a group member rushed to Li Andong's residence, the reconnaissance personnel said to him: "You are Li Andong, you have violated the laws of the People's Republic of China and intended to shell Tiananmen Square, we are ordered to arrest you and follow us!" ”
Although Andong Lee pretended to be very calm and forced sophistry, it was still to no avail. After all, the reconnaissance personnel searched his home for a large amount of intelligence information about the mainland's military, economic and political aspects, several of which detailed the number of the troops stationed in the Beijing area and the names of officers, and found a mortar in his courtyard.
When the members of the second group rushed to the French library in Dongjiaomin Lane, where Ryuichi Yamaguchi is located, he protested, saying that he was a legitimate business trade, not a spy activity. But the scouts rushed to his quarters and found that he had countless pieces of intelligence material in his home that had been sorted into cards, as well as several sketches of the city of Beijing and several letters to be sent to the U.S. military headquarters in Japan.
The members of the three groups went to arrest Gannas, and coincidentally, he was just about to go out on the road when he was stopped by our personnel.
When the last group members rushed to Zheli's residence, Zheli gave a vague explanation: "How do you know, we are still just planning, and you have found out!" ”
Now madi, who is in charge of hiding weapons, is cowardly, he is a missionary, but in fact he is spying, and in a foreign affairs event, he meets Andong Lee and Bao Ruide and others and serves them. After waiting for a day or two, the scouts finally arrested Maddy and searched out a total of 532 pieces of weapons and ammunition such as mortars, rifles, grenades and other weapons and ammunition from his residence.
At this point, several criminals were arrested and tried in public, Lee Andong and Ryuichi Yamaguchi, as the main plotters, were executed by shooting, Maddy cowardly hid a large amount of arms for them and was sentenced to life imprisonment, and the remaining accomplices were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment, and when they were finished, they were immediately deported.
After the founding of New China, the case of foreign spies attempting to shell Tiananmen Square to assassinate the LEADER of the Cpc was broken, and the result was very gratifying, and the people of the whole country were able to spend the National Day in peace in a peaceful environment.