Many countries in the world have their own secret service organizations, such as the FBI and the CIA in the United States, and the KGB of the Soviet Union, of which the current Russian President Vladimir Putin was a member.
In modern times, China's wars have also given birth to the establishment of a number of secret service organizations, and some warriors may not have the opportunity to charge on the battlefield full of artillery, just like our protagonist today, China's "king of agents" - Li Kenong.
Li Kenong is the only general who has never led troops to fight, because in his long career as a secret agent, the hidden theme is the constant theme, "small hidden in the opposition, big hidden in the city", Li Kenong in the early days of the Kuomintang deep lurking in the central unification, became Dai Li's "sworn enemy".
The Americans said: "If the Kuomintang does not have Dai Li, its history will be rewritten, and if the Communist Party does not have Li Kenong, its history will also be rewritten." ”
In 1962, Comrade Li Kenong died of a cerebral hemorrhage, and after learning the news, the US Intelligence Agency took a three-day holiday to celebrate. How good is this "King of Agents", who is burdened with great glory and mysterious aura and has always been regarded as the biggest rival by the US Intelligence Agency?
Lurkers of the "Silent Battlefield".
Li Kenong began to participate in leading the student movement during the May Fourth Movement, and in 1926 Li Kenong officially joined the Communist Party of China, and since then his life has been inseparable from the word "latent". After joining the organization, Li Kenong's first task was to pretend to be a leftist of the Kuomintang and secretly infiltrate the Wuhu Youth Gang organization.
May Fourth Movement
Many people may wonder why a Jianghu organization, the Youth Gang, has attracted the attention of our party and needs to send special agents to infiltrate it? This is because in the twenties and thirties of the last century, warlords throughout the country were constantly fighting, and Anhui became a battleground for soldiers because of its excellent geographical location.
At that time, Wuhu in Anhui Province was a high-profile central city, Wuhu had a local Qing Gang, the Qing Gang arose in Caoyun, and later the shipping was sluggish, and the disciples of the Qing Gang began to activate other ways, because of the large number of people and the dominance of one side.
The leader of the Shiqing Gang is called Ma Yubo. This person is very cunning, after the Northern Expedition began in 1927, the Northern Expeditionary Army successfully entered Wuhu, Ma Yubo saw this while putting on a revolutionary posture, and on the other hand, he did not forget to collude with the Kuomintang rightists. He took out some of his money to support the newly established Kuomintang in a vain attempt to clear the way through this method and make early plans for him to dominate Wuhu in the future.
Northern Expedition
Li Kenong's task was to enter Ma Yubo's Youth Gang and establish an intelligence system for the Communists to deliver information. Li Kenong's information was very timely, and he helped many Communists get out of danger at several critical moments.
In 1927, the "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup d'état broke out, which marked the first failure of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the Kuomintang led by the chairman of the National People's Congress wantonly arrested and slaughtered the Communists.
On April 14, 1927, Ma Yubo received a telephone call from the chairman of the committee, who asked him to go to Shanghai immediately to discuss with him the upcoming suppression of the Kuomintang leftists and Communists in Wuhu.
Ma Yubo's every move has long been monitored by Li Kenong, the night Li Kenong received the information, regardless of the danger, immediately passed the latest information to the Communist Party organization in Wuhu, his intelligence was very timely organization, after receiving the information, he carried out non-stop evacuation deployment, a large number of revolutionary backbone forces moved underground, this is the first information sent by Li Kenong.
The "April 12" counter-revolutionary coup
The first big win can be said to be a good start to his secret service career.
When the counter-revolutionary coup d'état was launched in Wuhu, the harm to our party had already been greatly weakened, and the chairman of the CPPCC National Committee pounced on Wuhu this time. After the failure of the counter-revolutionary coup in Wuhu, Cui Youzhen, a subordinate of the chairman of the National People's Congress, issued an order to pursue Li Kenong with all his might.
Li Kenong, who is wanted, regards this manhunt as a rare "field exercise", knowing that if you want to become a qualified agent, the most important thing is to learn to disguise. On the way to escape the pursuit, Li Kenong disguised himself as a homeless man, sometimes a decent officer, wearing glasses and a polite teacher, he cleverly evaded arrest again and again when he saw the moves.
Become Xu Enzeng's right-hand man
About ten years ago, there was a classic spy war drama "Latent" that was popular all over the country, in which the protagonist "Yu Zecheng" ostensibly worked for the Tianjin Station Secrecy Bureau under the control of the Kuomintang, but in fact he was a "deep sea" comrade planted by our party in the enemy. Li Kenong also had a similar experience to Yu Zecheng, the protagonist of the TV series "Latent".
In December 1929, Li Kenong received an order from his superiors and was admitted to the Kuomintang Radio Administration. At this time, the director of the Radio Administration was Xu Enzeng, and many people may be a little unfamiliar with this name. During the Republic of China, the Kuomintang had two major spy leaders, one was Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, and the other was Xu Enzeng, director of the Central Command Bureau.
Xu Enzeng
Xu Enzeng's later reputation was not as far as Dai Li's, mostly because of his personal greed for money and lust during the Anti-Japanese War, which made the chairman angry and removed all Xu Enzeng's positions, and then Xu Enzeng gradually moved away from the center of power, but this is still a later story.
Legend has it that Xu Enzeng managed a full 100,000 agents at his peak, but when Li Kenong was admitted to the Radio Administration, Xu Enzeng was still in the stage of accumulation, and he had just sat in the position of chief of the General Affairs Section of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, assisting the Kuomintang in secretly forming a spy organization.
In accordance with Premier Zhou's instructions, Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and Hu Di jointly set up a special party group, headed by Li Kenong, who was mainly responsible for intelligence contact with the Central Special Branch. Xu Enzeng's new official took office at the time of employing people, and the work ability of Li Kenong, Qian Zhuangfei, and Hu Di was fully recognized by everyone and successfully passed Xu Enzeng's test.
Because of Xu Enzeng's extreme trust, these three successfully entered the Kuomintang secret service organization, when Qian Zhuangfei became Xu Enzeng's personal secretary, Hu Di was appointed to the Tianjin News Agency as the president in 1930, and Li Kenong became the head of the special service unit of the Shanghai Radio Administration.
Xu Enzeng handed over all the core part of the spy work to Li Kenong, and becoming Xu Enzeng's right-hand man was very important for Li Kenong's hidden work, and it didn't take long for Li Kenong to become a "red man" when he encountered a rather tricky incident - Gu Shunzhang's rebellion.
Skillfully respond to "Gu Shunzhang's rebellion"
Gu Shunzhang was originally the early leader of our party and was one of the personnel in charge of underground intelligence work; Gu Shunzhang can be called a strange person in the memories of many people, he can shoot with both hands, and his marksmanship is extremely accurate; he kills people without leaving a trace; he is good at disguise transformation, and has been a magician for a while; and it is said that he also knows a little bit of psychology......
This ability made Gu Shunzhang quickly famous, and he made many achievements in spy work, at this time, the pride and complacency in his heart could no longer be suppressed, and as his status continued to rise, his inner desire gradually expanded, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling everything.
Spending all the money naturally tries to make money, but this is not a difficult thing for Gu Shunzhang, his identity for the public is a magician named "Hua Guangqi". In March 1931, Gu Shunzhang took a ride on a woman who quickly ran out of money, and he ventured to the amusement hall of Hankou New Market, the most densely populated area in Wuhan, to perform on stage.
Gu Shunzhang's mutiny
What Gu Shunzhang didn't expect was that an audience member hiding in the shadows recognized his true identity, this audience named You Chongxin turned out to be his former subordinate, who has now defected. Gu Shunzhang was arrested that night, and before the Kuomintang could torture him to extract a confession, Gu Shunzhang immediately defected without saying a word, which surprised the agents who interrogated him.
After his arrest, Gu Shunzhang wrote a handwritten letter to the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, saying that as long as the chairman was willing to give full trust, he would present all the secret spies secretly planted by the intelligence to them.
When the spies in Hankou saw that such a big fish had been caught, they immediately came to their senses, and they wanted to ask their superiors for merit, and they did not dare to delay and sent a secret telegram to Xu Enzeng overnight. But at this time, Xu Enzeng's personal secretary was Qian Zhuangfei, and the head of the spy unit was Li Kenong, both of whom were spies planted by the CCP, so Gu Shunzhang defected, and the intelligence that the underground stronghold was not guaranteed was discovered in time.
Li Kenong is responsible for one-line contact with Chen Geng, the problem is that the night when the intelligence comes is not yet the date of communication with Chen Geng, Li Kenong feels extremely anxious, he knows that intelligence is sometimes equivalent to life, and a moment later may be fatal!
Chen Geng
At the last moment, Li Kenong thought of a way to contact the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee first, and then the Provincial Party Committee contacted Chen Geng, which finally reflected the situation to the upper echelons and gave the underground personnel in Shanghai an opportunity to evacuate.
Gu Shunzhang had long known that in Shanghai and Nanjing, Xu Enzeng had planted the eyes of the CCP, and when he learned that a secret telegram had been sent, he sighed, "I can't catch Premier Zhou this time!" With Li Kenong, the Kuomintang once again pounced.
Gu Shunzhang's defection rewrote the history of the CCP and changed the trend of Chinese history to a certain extent. He holds many secrets of the Chinese Communist Party, many underground strongholds have been destroyed because of him, and many years of painstaking efforts have been ruined, and our party has also been forced to embark on the road of encircling the cities from the countryside.
Li Kenong made the greatest contribution in this incident, and remained flexible in the face of crisis, and was commended by the Central Committee and was named "one of the four outstanding masters of the party's secret work." However, he also lost the opportunity to continue to lurk, and the lurker could not have characteristics or honor, and he had been forced to surface, and the Kuomintang spies wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.
However, Li Kenong was very "cunning" and never let them succeed once. After that, Li Kenong still presided over the intelligence work of our party. For Li Kenong, there is no difficult situation, only hard work.
Thanks to Li Kenong's efforts, he successfully facilitated the Chongqing talks between the chairman of the National People's Congress and Mao Zedong, once found a cannonball in Chairman Mao's room, and handled the Korean War prisoner exchange negotiations...... His life was devoted to the cause of intelligence, and his spirit is immortalized.
After Li Kenong's death, intelligence agencies around the world can breathe a sigh of relief temporarily, and the US Intelligence Agency even has a holiday as a celebration, which shows that Li Kenong is so powerful that his competitors have produced a lot of psychological pressure.