Speaking of Yingruocheng, few people may know now, he is a famous Chinese artist in the last century, his son Yingda or Song Dandan's ex-husband, and today we are going to talk about Yingruocheng's teacher, Yingruocheng's teacher was once a pair of American spies who visited China.
The couple's spies had been lurking in China for years, and they were able to be caught thanks to Yingruocheng's secret collection of evidence and his own investigation of his teacher.
The spy couple entered Tsinghua University
In 1948, an American couple crossed the Pacific Ocean on a cruise ship to China, the male pseudonym Li Ke, the female pseudonym Li You'an, the couple's trip to China was with the orders and instructions of the American high-level, that is, to collect the list of pro-American elements within China, develop them into their own informants, and maintain the image of the United States.
Li Ke and his wife first arrived in Shanghai, but because the mainland was engaged in a war of liberation at that time, the situation was very good, the defeat of the Kuomintang had been decided, and many places had just been liberated, so the form of some areas was still unstable, Shanghai was like this, Li Ke and his wife felt that staying in Shanghai was too chaotic and not conducive to the development of the work of the two, so the two went north to Beijing.
After the two came to Beijing to study at Tsinghua University, the education level of the couple is not low, especially Li Ke, who is proficient in Japanese and Chinese and other Chinese, which is also the reason why the US Navy sent two to China, the two language communication barriers are small, it is easier to obtain some intelligence.
For the situation in China at that time, many foreign scholars came to study, so the Chinese government also adopted a preferential policy for Li Ke and his wife, and the two stayed behind after studying at Tsinghua for a year to become teaching teachers, and each person's monthly salary could reach 150 yuan, which was seven times that of ordinary teachers at that time!
The task assigned to the couple by the U.S. Navy was to develop pro-American people, in short, to carry out cultural aggression behind the scenes and infiltrate the ideological culture of the United States in China, so the two used their status as teachers at Tsinghua University to carry out many activities.
Sister Li and his wife were suspected
Mr. and Mrs. Li Ke are funny and humorous, the students are very fond of such a teacher, after the couple and the students got closer, they began to feast at home with students and teachers from Tsinghua University, and the two started from those around them to promote American culture and colorful life in the United States at the banquet.
The most attractive to these scholars is the free and open academic atmosphere in the United States, friends twitter around the Li Ke couple to ask about the free and open world of the United States, the couple hung a successful smile on the corner of their mouths, telling their own life in the United States, some scholars who are not firm in their will, quickly brainwashed by the American couple, the idea of wanting to go to the United States.
During the 1950 War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Mr. and Mrs. Li Ke were deeply disturbed, and the two were afraid that the war would burn on them and wanted to leave China. The two tried to sneak away from China, but China's public security authorities had long targeted the couple, believing that they were most likely American spies.
However, because not enough evidence was collected at that time, if Li Ke and his wife were to be arrested as two American scholars who came to China, it would be a big deal, so the Ministry of Public Security could not act recklessly and must obtain some conclusive evidence
Mr. and Mrs. Li Ke were arrested
In order to catch out the American spies, the public security department found the couple's student Ying Ruocheng, ying ruocheng and Li Ke often exchanged art together, and the two sides got along very well. When Ying Ruocheng learned of the public security organs' intentions, the whole person was shocked, but he still agreed to cooperate with the public security department to collect spy evidence of Li Ke and his wife.
Ying Ruocheng thought about it, but finally decided to start with the people li ke and his wife were involved with, he invited others to come to the house for dinner, and then little by little set out the available information, in July 1951, the public security department directly went to the door to arrest people after collecting sufficient evidence.
At that time, Li Ke and his wife were still shouting that they were wronged and not so-called American spies, and the two were taken back for interrogation, and finally Li Ke took the lead in breaking through the psychological defense line and admitted that he was an American spy. The two were eventually sentenced to six years in prison and four years in prison, but were released early by the mainland in 1955 for their good behavior in prison.
Later, the couple was deported, and both realized their mistakes, deeply regretted China's espionage experience, and later worked on peace and friendship in Sino-US relations.
Brief summary:
Not only Li Ke and his wife, in fact, after the founding of New China, the Kuomintang also left a lot of spies on the mainland, most of whom changed their faces and lived again, but in the end they were dug up by the public security department and paid for their espionage. And we can find out the identity of the spies of Mr. and Mrs. Li Ke, and thanks to Yingruocheng, let us pay tribute to Yingruocheng's old predecessors! Hats off to the older generation of counter-espionage workers!