Chapter 21 secret service

But when the Eighty-eighth Route Army reached Kunshan and fought the Japanese on the Nanxiang front, the Chinese army suffered a disastrous defeat.The situation at that time was that Dai Li himself reported the bad news to Chiang Kai-shek: when the 88th Route Army regrouped its forces in Changshu, the total number of troops and officers combined was less than 4,000.The Commander-in-Chief was very upset.This was not only due to his inaccurate intelligence on Japanese military forces, but also his insufficient estimation and control of the Whampoa officers serving in these armies.To better understand the situation, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Dai Li to set up a secret service to strengthen his informal secret service organization.The Secret Service is located in Chicken and Goose Lane.

However, this newly established office is not considered a formal government agency, but an "iron team" administratively related to the "Blue Shirts Club".It was housed in the "Rehabilitation Society" which financed it.Its mission is to gradually infiltrate garrison, police and uniformed forces while perfecting espionage and sabotage.However, none of these tasks were ever given in a legal form.Although Chiang Kai-shek stipulated that all personnel affairs must be handled by him personally, he himself had just stepped down as the chairman of the Nationalist Government, and the power of the government fell into the hands of Lin Sen, the widely respected nominal leader. The powers of basic duties are absent.Despite this, Dai Li still controlled a formal secretariat with a fixed source of funds, and the original "group of ten" has grown to a group of more than 100 people.

This new "secret service" was indeed enlarged, especially now that Dai Li enjoyed Chiang Kai-shek's full confidence.It was during this period that Shen Zui joined the organization, became the head of the Shanghai Communication Station, and learned to guide the novices who joined the "Operation Department" after him in kidnapping and assassination techniques.But despite doubling in numbers and Dai Li's emerging but aggressive network of garrison and military police forces, the Secret Service's operations were hampered by its lack of legal powers to arrest and detain suspects.

On March 18, 1932, the second session of the 4th Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang was held in Luoyang, at which Chiang Kai-shek was appointed chairman of the Military Commission.In order to give Dai Li formal powers and to prevent the growing rivalry between the CC faction and the Whampoa faction from weakening his own intelligence agencies, Chiang Kai-shek decided to use his new powers to establish a formal intelligence bureau under the Military Commission to keep these informal Combined with the secret investigation department. In late March, shortly after Puyi ascended the throne as head of the Manchukuo puppet government, Chiang summoned his top military advisers and jointly decided to organize an "intelligence network" "in order to resist foreign aggression and pacify the country."Therefore, "a military intelligence agency" was established on April 1, 1932, which was the anniversary of the founding of the military command agency that the Kuomintang military intelligence department would always commemorate.

According to the yearbook published by Taiwan's "Ministry of National Defense" in 1966, Chiang Kai-shek met Dai Li in private at Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum outside Nanjing before announcing the establishment of this "organization".When the Chairman announced to Dai Li his new position in the institution, Dai hypocritically declined, saying that he was too junior to be qualified.Jiang comforted him and said, "As long as you are determined, you don't need to worry about other things." According to the official Chronicle, Dai Li then agreed to take on the important task entrusted to him by the leader, and replied: "From now on, students will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives. And fight for the revolution. If I fail, then I will ask the leader to punish me. If I win, or be killed by the enemy, I will have no regrets." "Chronicles" finally said: "Jiang Gongzhuang."