On the morning of June 16, 2010, Shen Anna, a 95-year-old veteran of the Central Special Branch, died in the hospital, and as she died, she suddenly shouted in panic: "Am I exposed?" Come on! Run from the back door! Don't let them catch it! ”
The surrounding medical care did not know why, but the daughter Walker knew that her mother must have returned to the thrilling years of lurking around Chiang Kai-shek in a trance, so she slowly bent down and leaned down in her mother's ear to comfort her softly.
Shen Anna gradually relaxed and passed away peacefully.
No one knows what Shen Anna went through in her last moments, but her memory should go back to 1932 in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, where her dangerous life began.
Figure | Shen Anna in her later years
One day in the summer of 1932, in the shen family mansion in Taixing, Jiangsu Province, Shen Yina, a 20-year-old girl who secretly fled back to her mother's house because of the insults and abuse of her husband's family, was crying to her mother, and Shen's mother was very traditional, although she was distressed by her daughter's suffering, she just shook her head and sighed while wiping her tears.
At this time, 17-year-old Shen Anna couldn't see her eyes and firmly told her sister: "You don't want to go back!" ”
Mother Shen glanced helplessly at her little daughter and sighed: "Daughter who marries out, splash out the water." How can you say that if you don't go back, you won't go back? ”
Shen Yina did not make any more sounds, only stood quietly with her eyebrows down, unable to see her thoughts.
That night, the sisters returned to the room, and Shen Yina whispered but firmly to her sister: "You are right, I will not go back, I will run away from home." ”
Shen Anna was afraid that she would be forced into an arranged marriage like her sister, so she decided to run away from home with her sister.
The sisters made up their minds, and soon they bid farewell to their mother and went to Shanghai together.
The pain suffered by her sister in the arranged marriage made Shen Anna, who was not yet an adult, see the fate that she might encounter in this life, so she began to seriously think about her life and the value of women, and officially began her own road of awakening.
With the thinking and vision of the future, Shen Anna got rid of the fate of the old-fashioned woman and moved towards a magnificent future.
When she arrived in Shanghai, Shen Anna was successfully admitted to Nanyang Commercial Senior High School with an anti-feudal essay that integrated her true feelings.
Figure | Shen Anna
During her studies, she met Shu Yuexin and Hua Mingzhi, alumni who had joined the Communist Party, and under their influence, began to read progressive books. Since then, Shen Anna has gained a deeper understanding of her own era and is full of yearning for revolution.
By the summer of 1934, the money the sisters had brought out of their families had run out, and Shen Anna, who had just finished her sophomore year of high school, had to drop out of school.
At that time, the Shanghai Bingxun Chinese Shorthand School was enrolling students. Considering that the shorthand school fees are low and the semester is short, learning shorthand will at least have a skill to make a living in the future, shen Anna signed up.
In the winter of 1934, when Shen Anna was nearing graduation, the Zhejiang provincial government recruited a stenographer at bingxun shorthand school.
Seeing the opportunity to work in the organs, the students flocked to them, but Shen Anna did not want to enter the Kuomintang organs to serve the officials and masters, and delayed taking the exam.
At this time, Wang Xuewen, the intelligence commissioner of the Central Special Branch, saw that this was an excellent opportunity to break into the Kuomintang Zhejiang Provincial Government, so he instructed Shu Yuexin and Hua Mingzhi to enlighten Shen Anna and seize the opportunity to break into the Zhejiang Provincial Government and carry out intelligence work with cameras.
Shu Yuexin and Hua Mingzhi revealed their identity as Communists to Shen Anna and solemnly told her: "To go to the Zhejiang Provincial Government as a stenographer is to join the revolution!"
Hearing that she could participate in the revolution, Shen Anna immediately said happily: "Really? As long as I join the revolution, I will go!"
Seeing Shen Anna's eager look, Hua Mingzhi and Shu Yuexin were worried that her newborn calves were not afraid of tigers, so they reminded her that it was dangerous to break into the Kuomintang to collect intelligence, and even risked her life.
Shen Anna firmly replied: "In the past, there was no door to repay the country but no door to serve the country, and today there is a door to serve the country!" I want revolution! I'm not afraid to die!"
After taking over the heavy responsibility of the revolution, Shen Anna was full of energy, practicing shorthand day and night, and finally entered the Zhejiang Provincial Government in early 1935 and moved into the provincial government dormitory.
After living in the provincial government dormitory, whenever there was no one in the dormitory, Shen Anna would bolt to the door, tighten the curtains, dip the invisible potion with a brush, and write information on the back of the home letter or between the empty lines.
Although Shen Anna was cautious, she was still on the verge of being discovered by her roommates.
For security reasons, the party organization also sent Hua Mingzhi to Hangzhou to guide and assist Shen Anna's intelligence work.
In order to facilitate communication, Hua Mingzhi pretended to be Shen Anna's boyfriend, and every time he handed over information by the romantic West Lake. No one expected that this "sweet date" was actually passing on information.
The common faith and dangerous intelligence work brought the two young hearts closer and closer, and in the autumn of 1935, Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi held a simple wedding in Shanghai.
After getting married, the cooperation between the two was more tacit, Shen Anna was responsible for obtaining documents, shorthand manuscripts and other information during the day, and after nightfall, the shorthand draft was sorted into a text. Hua Mingzhi reorganized, condensed, secretly wrote, secretly hid, and transmitted intelligence in the second half of the night.
The marriage between Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi perfectly interprets "a good marriage is to grow together and achieve each other".
Together, they grew into excellent intelligence workers in their marriage, and they also achieved a brilliant achievement on the hidden front.
Unfortunately, the married life of working together was soon shattered by the artillery fire of the Japanese army.
Figure | Hua Mingzhi and Shen Anna
On August 13, 1937, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai, and Shen Anna retreated west with the Zhejiang provincial government, losing contact with her family and the party organization in Shanghai.
After the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese army accelerated the pace of aggression, Nanjing and Hangzhou also fell one after another, and the survival of the nation hung in the balance.
At this time, the Communist Party put forward the idea of "cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China and unanimous resistance against Japan", which received a warm response from the people of the whole country.
Shen Anna was deeply disgusted by the Kuomintang's passive resistance to Japan but unable to do anything, so she decided to go to the Eighth Route Army's office in Wuhan and follow the Communist Party to resist Japan.
In Wuhan, Shen Anna met with Zhou Enlai, Dong Biwu and other CCP leaders, who eagerly reported on her past work and expressed her desire to join the anti-Japanese salvation movement.
However, Dong Biwu learned at this time that Zhu Jiahua, Shen Anna's old leader in the Zhejiang Provincial Government, was deeply valued by Chiang Kai-shek and had been promoted to secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Party Department, so he refused her request to resist Japan and save the country, and instead confessed that she had infiltrated the Kuomintang Central Party Department and continued to collect intelligence by virtue of Zhu Jiahua's status as an old subordinate.
Zhou Enlai also told Shen Anna that the couple doing intelligence work together was conducive to mutual cover and support, and that they would continue to fight side by side with Hua Mingzhi when they entered the Kuomintang Central Party Department.
Shen Anna kept zhou Enlai and Dong Biwu's instructions firmly in mind, and the next day she went to visit the old leader Zhu Jiahua, saying that she had traveled thousands of miles to Wuhan in order to continue to serve the party-state and asked the old leader to help arrange a job.
Zhu Jiahua was very pleased to see that his former capable general had come to serve him, so he happily handled the "special party membership" for her and arranged for her to be placed in the confidential office of the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee.
The so-called "special joining the party" means that three members of the Kuomintang Central Committee introduce them to join the Kuomintang, the procedures are simple, the approval time is fast, and the party card is marked with the word "special." Such party members, who are considered to have a backstage within the Kuomintang, will be looked up upon.
In October 1938, Shen Anna completed the procedures for "special joining the party" and officially entered the confidential department of the Party Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee as a confidential stenographer.
Figure | Shen Anna Qianying
The confidential department officials saw that Shen Anna was a "special party member" introduced by Zhu Jiahua, and her shorthand level was high, and she trusted and valued her.
Therefore, although Shen Anna had not been in a confidential place for a short time, she was able to serve as a stenographer in high-level military and political meetings such as the Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Kuomintang Central Committee, the Military Commission of the National Government, and the Supreme Committee of National Defense, and gained more access to important intelligence.
This month when Shen Anna entered the confidential office of the Kuomintang Central Committee, the Kuomintang was preparing to convene the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee.
In order to seize the opportunity, she took the initiative to participate in the classification, verification and numbering of materials, and as a result, she accidentally discovered the Anti-Communist ambitions of the Kuomintang in the draft document, so she sneaked into the Communications Office of the Eighth Route Army under the cover of Hua Mingzhi that night and exposed to Dong Biwu the Kuomintang's conspiracy of "fake cooperation and true anti-communism".
In January 1939, the Kuomintang held the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee as scheduled, and determined the policy of "dissolving the Communist Party, preventing the Communist Party, and restricting the Communist Party". Shen Anna took advantage of the fact that the printing unit was not ready to obtain a number of mimeographed scraps of documents, especially the "Measures for the Handling of the Communist Party Problem" that were not discussed at the congress and were secretly issued by Chiang Kai-shek.
Hua Mingzhi carefully delineated the places where the mimeograph was unclear and quickly reported it to the party organization.
After the Fifth Plenary Session, the Kuomintang government created friction around the anti-Japanese base areas led by the Communist Party, and then set off the first anti-communist upsurge in the whole country since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, stirring up people's uneasiness and social unrest.
On the basis of the information collected, the CPC Central Committee promptly printed and distributed the pamphlet "Where Friction Comes From," exposing the Kuomintang's civil war plot and educating CCP members who harbored illusions about the Kuomintang.
Figure | A couple of two
After the anti-communist conspiracy was crushed again and again, the Kuomintang diehards increasingly regarded the Communist Party as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh.
In early 1941, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly launched the Anhui Incident without warning, and in addition to more than 2,000 officers and men of the New Fourth Army, thousands of soldiers including deputy commander Xiang Ying were martyred, and the commander Ye Ting was detained during negotiations with the Kuomintang.
In October 1941, the Kuomintang prepared to convene the Ninth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee.
At this time, Shen Anna was eight months pregnant, but thinking of the tragic anhui incident, she still insisted on going to work every day, vigilantly examining each document, and finally discovered the "Outline of the Report on the Communist Party Issue (Draft)" drafted by He Yingqin, chief of staff of the Military Commission, and the "Proposal on the Handling of the Communist Party Problem (Draft)" drafted by Xu En, deputy director of the Central Bureau of Unification.
Shen Anna quickly and silently wrote down the important contents of the "outline" and "proposal", and returned to the office to immediately write them down from memory. After work, she took the shorthand pieces of paper home and sorted them into a written draft and reported them to the Southern Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, so that the party organization was fully aware of the new round of anti-communist conspiracies of the Kuomintang before the meeting.
With the continuous experience in the crisis-ridden intelligence work, Shen Anna quickly grew into an alert and calm "old underground party", but for a long time, the danger was always invincible.
In August 1942, Shen Anna's online line, Xu Zhonghang, an underground member of the Communist Party of China who was also lurking inside the Kuomintang, was unfortunately arrested.
After the agreed joint time, Xu Zhonghang, who has always been on time, did not appear for a long time, and Shen Anna was anxious in her heart, so she wrote a letter to Xu Zhonghang to test: "The money borrowed a few days ago, this month can not be repaid, and will be repaid next month." ”
At this time, Xu Zhonghang was already in prison, and Shen Anna did not wait for the reply, only waited for the secret agent.
The two agents went straight to the Secretariat of the Central Party Department in Shangqing Garden, took the letter sent by Shen Anna not long ago and asked: "Tell me quickly, why did you borrow money from Xu Zhonghang?" He's a communist, he's been arrested, are you a spy? ”
At the critical moment, Shen Anna remembered that Zhou Enlai had taught herself: "In the face of sudden events, we must not be afraid of danger, calm and calm, and do everything possible to deal with the enemy and protect ourselves." ”
Therefore, she calmly asked: "It is nothing more than borrowing a few money from friends, and now that the country is in trouble, who is not short of money?" Then he moved out of Zhu Jiahua to suppress the agents.
The agents did not have real evidence, and did not dare to offend Zhu Jiahua, so they did not continue to interrogate.
Shen Anna's daughter Walker Fang later recalled that night: "This night my mother and my father did not sleep all night, they both held hands tightly, my father said, I will always be behind your back, you are at ease." My mother said that if I had something to do in the Central Party Department, I would definitely deal with it, and if I was caught, you would have to take good care of your two children. My dad said, rest assured, if you go in, I will go in with you, and we will always be together. The next day, the two calmly went to work separately. ”
Figure | Shen Anna's family
The next day, the agents did not harass Shen Anna again, and the Secretariat of the Central Party Department was as usual.
However, at this time, the Central Party Department was peaceful on the surface, but in fact it was surging with undercurrents.
After the third day, a colleague who rarely interacted with each other on weekdays came to Shen Anna's house every day after work on the pretext of "helping to watch the children" and stayed until the children slept.
Shen Anna knew in her heart that this colleague must have been sent to monitor herself, so she simply left him to eat every day and entertained him politely and thoughtfully.
This colleague did not find any suspicious movements for several days, so he stopped coming, and Shen Anna was relieved.
However, only a few days later, when Shen Anna was alone in the office, two colleagues suddenly walked up to her desk and shouted twice: "Xu Zhonghang was shot!" Xu Zhonghang was shot! ”
Shen Anna was shocked and almost lost her square inch, but she immediately realized that these two people must be testing themselves, so she deliberately acted extra calm, and her colleagues left without anger.
After Xu Zhonghang was killed, Shen Anna encountered one embarrassing temptation and blackmail after another, plus the Kuomintang gendarmerie next door to her house, often heard torture and screams in the middle of the night, although Shen Anna did not meet with the enemy soldiers, she experienced physical and mental suffering and life and death tests every day.
Hua Mingzhi wrote in a letter to a friend at this time: "Individuals, families, and nations are trying a more arduous ordeal like the nation... Anna has insomnia, can't wake up after midnight, and has to watch the dawn when she wakes up... A month ago, I had stomach problems, blood in my stool... There was not enough milk, and the tears of mother and son flowed together..."
In fact, after Xu Zhonghang was arrested, what made Shen Anna more anxious than suffering physical and mental torture was that she broke off contact with the party organization.
At that time, in order to protect Shen Anna, who had not yet been exposed, the party organization took the initiative to suspend contact with her.
Shen Anna was anxious, but still insisted on collecting intelligence, and after the time limit, the comrades who still could not wait for the joint would personally destroy the intelligence.
It wasn't until one night in October 1945 that the familiar code call sounded, and the secret information finally waited for the party organization.
The party organization contacted Shen Anna at this time, and the timing was very accurate.
Only half a year later, Chiang Kai-shek brazenly launched an all-out civil war. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was extremely vigilant, and when he talked about some top-secret issues at the high-level decision-making meeting of the Kuomintang, he would suddenly signal: "Don't remember the following words." ”
When the recorders stopped writing one after another, Shen Anna also stopped writing. But she would memorize Chiang Kai-shek's speech in her heart, wait until she went to the toilet during the break, and then use shorthand symbols to record important information on small pieces of paper, take it home after work, and Hua Mingzhi would organize the shorthand symbols into a written draft and send it to the party organization.
In April 1949, the defeated Kuomintang government began to retreat south. At this time, the superior leader informed Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi and his wife: "There is no need to follow the Kuomintang organs to the south, get out of the camera, and go to Shanghai to wait for liberation." ”
At this point, Shen Anna, who had been lurking by Chiang Kai-shek's side for 11 years, finally retired from the party organization and returned to the party organization.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Shen Anna and Hua Mingzhi worked in the State Security Bureau and the Shanghai State Security Bureau respectively until their retirement in 1983.
In line with the belief that "spring cicadas are exhausted to the end of the dead silk", the two retired and served as advisory members of the Ministry of State Security, dedicating their residual heat to national security.
In December 1989, Shen Anna was awarded the Medal of Honor by the Ministry of State Security for the Unsung Hero of the Hidden Front.
Some media praised her as "the one who holds the pulse of Chiang Kai-shek", but she responded modestly:
"Everyone has elevated me, and I think that only the Party Central Committee can hold the pulse of Chiang Kai-shek, and I personally can never do it."
For a revolutionary like Shen Anna, who has firm faith, honor is not her pursuit, and the thriving new China is the best reward for her life's hard work.
Fortunately, before she died in 2010, she saw such a China, so she was worth it!
Wen | Anxin