In 1931, Gu Shunzhang, the head of the Central Special Branch, who had served as a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee, was arrested and betrayed in Wuhan, and his defection caused serious damage to the underground organization in Shanghai, almost killing the Chinese revolution.
Coincidentally, in 1933, another "high-level" was arrested and betrayed, which also caused serious harm to our party, his name was Lu Futan, who served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and also served as the secretary of the provincial party committees of Shandong, Hebei, and Henan provinces.
Today we will tell the story of the revolutionary traitor Lufutan.
Born in 1890 in Tai'an County, Shandong Province, Lu Futan's early years were quite rich, when he was a child, he studied at home for three years in a private school, and at the age of 15, he began to learn to do business, and later entered the Ningyang Mine Huafeng Company as an apprentice.
In 1914, Lu Futan came to the Hongshan Coal Mine of Luda Company in Zichuan County, became a coal miner, in the process of working, Lu Futan made friends and met a large number of like-minded friends, including one named Wang Jianmei, Wang Jianmei is the person in charge of our party in Shandong, in 1926, under the introduction of Wang Jianmei, Lu Futan officially joined the Communist Party of China.
In 1927, Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei staged counter-revolutionary coups in Shanghai and Wuhan respectively, betraying the revolution and persecuting communists and progressives.
In September 1927, Lu Futan was appointed secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, during which time he led the famous Shandong riots.
In 1928, in view of the mistakes of Chen Duxiu and others, the Comintern instructed the CCP to reuse cadres from workers' backgrounds into leading positions, so that among the leaders produced by the Sixth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, many cadres from workers' backgrounds appeared, such as Xiang Zhongfa, a worker from the wharf of Wuhan Three Towns, was elected chairman of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and became the leader with overall responsibility at the First Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Party Central Committee.
Su Zhaozheng, Xiang Ying, and others were elected members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Lu Futan and Li Lisan were elected alternate members of the Politburo.
In November 1928, Lu Futan was appointed secretary of the Shandong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, and in 1930, Lu Futan served as secretary of Hebei Province and Henan Province.
Lu Futan's ability to enter the core leadership circle of the CCP has a lot to do with one person, and he is Wang Ming.
In January 1931, under the instructions of the Comintern, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Shanghai.
In addition, at this meeting, Lu Futan was favored by Wang Ming at a glance and officially became a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
In the first half of 1931, Gu Shunzhang, an alternate member of the Politburo in charge of the work of the Central Special Branch, and Xiang Zhongfa, chairman of the Politburo of the Central Committee, were arrested and betrayed.
In this way, Lu Futan became one of the de facto members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee.
In 1932, Lu Futan reached the peak of his power when he served as secretary of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and in December of that year, Lu Futan was arrested by the British patrol and immediately transferred to the Shanghai Municipal Police Department.
Unexpectedly, after Lu Futan was arrested, the speed of the mutiny was even faster than that of Xiang Zhongfa, and he even joined the Central Unification Organization, a Kuomintang secret service, and successively served as the head of the Xuzhou Special Administrative Region Operations Unit of the Central Unification and the head of the Intelligence Unit of the Shanghai District of the Central Unification.
On May 24, 1951, with the liberation of Kunming, Lu Futan, who was already at the end of his rope, was arrested by the public security organs of the People's Government and has been imprisoned in Shanghai ever since.
Fast forward to 1968.
In this year, a copy of Kang Sheng's arrest and betrayal was transmitted to Beijing via Hong Kong, and Kang Sheng knew that Lu Futan was still alive in the world, and that Kang Sheng was an adviser to the Central Cultural Revolution Group at that time, and he was in a high position and would never allow anyone or material to be unfavorable to him.
As a result, after Kang Sheng signed an order with Xie Fuzhi, the minister of public security, Lu Futan was secretly executed in Shanghai in November 1969 at the age of 79.