People who often watch spy war dramas must have heard the words "military unification" and "central unification", but few people know what the difference between "military unification" and "central unification" is.
There are big differences between the military command and the central command in terms of functions, organizational structure, and historical evolution. First of all, the military command belongs to the intelligence department of the Kuomintang army, the full name is the "Military Commission Investigation and Statistics Bureau", and its main responsibilities are to collect military intelligence, counterespionage, and suppress the revolution.
The predecessor of the military command was the special service of the Fuxing Society, which was established in the thirties of the last century, and because at the beginning of its establishment, the members were all dressed in blue, so it was also called the "Blue Coat Society".
In 1938, with the acquiescence of Chiang Kai-shek, Dai Li expanded the secret service into the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau". Although it was nominally a "bureau of investigation and statistics," at this time, in addition to collecting intelligence, the military commanders also had secret functions such as assassination, surveillance, and kidnapping, and became the thugs and accomplices of the Kuomintang in dealing with our party and the progressive masses.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the military unification stepped up its efforts to collect intelligence on the enemy, and on the one hand, it organized assassinations and raids on Japanese puppet traitors, which dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's arrogance to a certain extent.
In addition, the military commanders also organized a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces behind enemy lines in the occupied areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which also played a certain role in containing the Japanese army. During the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the military commanders organized more than 500 assassinations and raids, killing tens of thousands of Japanese puppet traitors.
The organizational structure of the military command is relatively tight, and the hierarchy is clear. It can be roughly divided into two sets of systems: internal and out-of-office. The internal office is mainly a bureau organ, with a total of eight divisions, and the organizational level is three levels: division, section and group. The organizational level of the field service is at the two levels of "district and station", and there are usually "district" level institutions in large regions such as North China and Northwest China, and "stations" in each province.
It should be noted that the military command has also set up "stations" in some important cities, such as Beiping, Tianjin, and Xi'an. The military command also has offices in some countries in Southeast Asia and Europe. In addition, the military command also has the posts of commissioners and inspectors to supervise and guide branches at all levels.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in view of the people's opposition to the rule of the secret service, the Kuomintang had to reorganize the Military Command Bureau, and its core part was reorganized into the "Secret Bureau", and the rest was assigned to the "Second Department of the Ministry of National Defense". At all times, the identities of most of the personnel within the military command are kept secret, and military agents usually operate in a stealthier form.
The Central Unification is the intelligence department within the Kuomintang Party, the full name is the "Investigation and Statistics Bureau of the Chinese Kuomintang Committee", and its predecessor is the Investigation Section under the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang.
In 1927, in order to strengthen the control within the Kuomintang, under the instruction of Lao Chiang, the investigation department increased the function of special agents, and the focus of work gradually shifted from organizational work to spy work. Its main function was to monitor public opinion and the ideological dynamics of the people, and to suppress and eliminate dissidents within the Kuomintang.
At the beginning of 1938, Chen Lifu, with the consent of Lao Chiang, expanded and reorganized the Investigation Department into the Central Union. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Central Committee was reorganized into the "Party Member Communication Bureau", but the basic functions did not change.
Because it was subordinate to the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, its organizational structure was relatively loose. Relying on the Kuomintang's "party headquarters" in various localities, the Central Unification has set up survey and statistics offices in various provinces and cities; unlike the military unification, the main scope of activities of the Central Unification is the administrative organs and the colleges and universities of the university.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the grassroots organizations of the Central Union were seriously damaged, and most of the underground personnel stationed in the occupied areas of the Central Union also defected, which directly led to the decline of the Central Union.
It is worth mentioning that the Central Unification was founded by the Kuomintang bigwig Chen Lifu, so the entire Central Unification basically only obeyed Chen Lifu's orders, and its personnel arrangements were beyond the influence of Lao Chiang. The military command is different, although the military command was also created by Dai Li, but Dai Li and Lao Jiang have a teacher-student relationship, and he can be said to be obedient to Lao Jiang, so he has won Lao Jiang's trust.
The Kuomintang was constantly fighting within itself, and the military and the central unification were no exception. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the power of the military unification expanded to other areas other than the army, which led to the gradual escalation of the conflict between the military and the central unification.
In February 1939, Li Wenli, the commissioner of the Eighth District of Shandong with a background in military command, secretly instructed his subordinates to kill Lu Bin, the director of Lu Dong Xingyuan, who belonged to the Central Unification faction, in order to compete for power and profit. There were countless incidents like this at that time, so we can see the depth of the contradiction between the military and the central government.
As time passed, the Central Command gradually lost ground in the struggle, and the Military Commander eventually became dominant. In short, although there is a great difference in the functions of the military and the central unification, there is no difference in their reactionary nature, they are both tools of Chiang Kai-shek to maintain reactionary rule, and their actions are despised by later generations.