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A foreign journalist later recalled Dai Kasa as a hidden-faced man, always hidden in the shadows of his room, while the others were in full view. However, a few Westerners who met Dai Kasa during the Pacific War when he was in his heyday had a strong and colorful impression of him. "On the one hand, no one in World War II was darker than him; on the other hand, no one was whiter than him." Almost everyone was stunned by his sharp gaze. An OSS (U.S. Strategic Intelligence Agency) officer working behind enemy lines under dai kasa said: "Dai Kasa is medium-sized and strong, rugged in appearance, and has the ability of a soldier. His face was well-defined, his sharp eyes were aggressive, and he had a gritty mouth. An American officer from a family of Chinese missionaries wrote: "He was handsome and slender, with a pair of slender and graceful hands, and walked like a steel bar on his spine, and his steps were large and powerful, like the exaggerated steps of heroes on a Chinese stage." His sharp scrutinizing gaze seemed to want to memorize people's facial features and personality for future use. ”

For most foreigners in China in the 1940s, Dai was a legendary figure, widely regarded as "not Admiral Kanaris of China, but Heinrich Himmler." Dai Kasa gives the impression of being intelligent and imaginative, cruel and unscrupulous. He was Himmler of the Chinese Nationalist Party. He is the enemy of almost all American democratic ideals. Under Chiang Kai-shek,he attempted to unify China with an iron fist. He was cold, cunning and cruel.

Of all the characteristics of Dai Kasa, perhaps the most prominent is his willingness to serve his leader. The name he chose for himself literally means "to wear a rain hat", and its symbol means "a servant", that is, to emphasize the servility of this animal-like willingness to be the lackey of its master Chiang Kai-shek, while at the same time representing the mutual respect in the feudal concept. Dai Kasa explained his name to others: "There is an ancient poem that says: 'Jun rides the car, I wear Kasa, and he meets every day to get off the car.'" I crossed the horse, and he met every day as a king. ’”

Shen Drunk, the station chief of the Shanghai station and the director of dai's general affairs office, pointed out the loyalty of his superiors to Chiang Kai-shek's lackeys, saying that he was willing to be Chiang's "minions." Dai Kasa's own account of "inuyasha's labor" also seems to reveal that he is willing to accept this inhuman treatment from his master. Dai Kasa himself was proud to be able to "uphold the leader's will and remember the leader's hard heart." In the eyes of his opponents, this conceit is an expression of Dai Kasa's fanatical allegiance to Chiang Kai-shek's belief that "there is no justice without me, and there is no justice in me." Dai Kasa is a contradictory combination of strong and weak, and as a person in Chiang Kai-shek's inner circle, he has great power. However, his humility and obedience to Chiang eventually proved the weakness of his personality.

As a concrete symbol of Chiang Kai-shek's dictatorship, Dai also represented one of the most powerful organizations in the Kuomintang government: the Military Survey and Statistics Bureau. In 1943, the U.S. military attaché described the military command (MSB) this way: This organization is not on the list of Chinese government agencies, but it is one of the most powerful and important organizations in China. It is a high-level leading body within the Chinese military. Its leader, Mr. Dai Kasa, may have greater authority than other members of the Military Commission. In fact, this bureau is a Chinese secret service agency.

It is difficult to separate The personal influence of Dai as the head of China's most powerful secret police from his close relationship with Chiang Kai-shek. In the imagination of many, he at least represents the dark side of dictatorship. As Shen Drunk said, he was a sword of the commander-in-chief, and in the eyes of the people, he was Jiang's executioner. In fact, the independence that Dai May have enjoyed came from his own deterrent power, but conversely, it came almost entirely from his proximity to Chiang—plus his well-known, omnipresent eyes, ears, and minions.

Like all police chiefs, Dai's deterrent comes from the ubiquity of people who believe in him. In China and abroad, there are people who believe: "As we all know, the military command is China's secret police, and it is larger in number of agents and more extensive in geographical coverage than any spy network in the world." In 1946, U.S. military intelligence estimated that Dai had 180,000 plainclothes agents — 40,000 of whom worked for him around the clock. Those agents in special and military uniforms included 70,000 armed guerrillas, 20,000 Einsatzgruppen, and the U.S. Navy's 15,291-strong Loyal Salvation Army and 40,000 organized pirates off the coast of China. Together, these are 325,000 actual or potential personnel serving the leader of the secret police.

Of course, the placement of agents in a village and a tun was not enough for Dai to win the universal fear of him that he was proud of. His image in the eyes of foreigners and Chinese stems in part from his brutal reputation. American observers argue: "Many Chinese whispered that he had punished traitors by grilling in an internal combustion stove on a locomotive, and that he had manipulated concentration camps for political prisoners and other prisoners." Some Chinese, such as Chiang Kai-shek's rival Li Zongren, who had a good feeling for Dai Kasa "as a clever and reserved person", but at the same time was shocked by his "laughter and adultery". Although he occasionally appeared in his organization as inattentive, it is said that in case anyone did not follow his discipline, he punished him cruelly and mercilessly. Dai's critics have therefore accused foreigners of being responsible for the imprisonment of many liberal arts professors and other progressives, while describing him as a "Fascist in China."

Many of his puzzling features are related to his wonderful ability to keep people unaware of his presence and to remain anonymous, and partly to his reluctance to be photographed. Dai is one of the most legendary figures in china's recent history; even among government officials, few people know him, and few photographs of him are taken. He undoubtedly always tried to hide his tracks. In World War II-era Chongqing, where he lived alone — except for his guards and Jia Jinnan, a white-haired servant who even procured, cooked and tasted food for him when he dined out — the leader of the secret police deliberately moved back and forth between three quarters: ZengJiayan's mansion at 151, a small bungalow at Kangzhuang 3 in Shangqing Temple, and another mansion in Shenxian Cave.

The average person thinks that Dai Kasa's property is huge, but no one knows how much it is. He claimed to work for Chiang Kai-shek's government without compensation, which made his personal income very mysterious. Some say his income comes from secret dealings with enemies. Dai Kasa's obsession with secrecy and anonymity gives his power another characteristic, which is the so-called invulnerability. The Article in The Colliers magazine that made him legendary in the United States repeatedly mentions Dai's clever escape from arrest, time bombs, and Japanese capture: "Dai's impeccable claims soon became part of his personal legend. ”

All of Dai Kasa's old partners emphasize that their boss has a strong memory and strong energy. It is said that he was able to go days and nights without sleeping without looking tired at all. And even if he is tired, he can immediately detect a situation or the movement of a person, and then try to make the most of the situation. So his men believed that it was futile to conceal the truth from the secret police chief under any circumstances, because he could always expose the deception. The Kuomintang general Hu Zongnan summed up Dai's personality in this way: "Yunnong, the man who conceits himself to Sun Wukong, believes that the moon in the sky can be caught, and there is almost no difficulty that cannot be overcome." His greatest strength is his deep understanding of human feelings, and his biggest shortcoming is that he is willful, impatient, and unable to keep secrets. ”