Chapter 32 peripheral organization

On March 1, 1932, the day after the establishment of Lixingshe was sworn in, the founders of Lixingshe held a cadre meeting in their office on Huangpu Road, Nanjing.The purpose of the meeting is to establish a leadership team and form outlying organizations.He Zhonghan presided over the meeting, and Deng Wenyi read out the list of officers of the organization set by Chiang Kai-shek.The board of directors will become the executive leadership team of the agency.The agency's executive officer and secretary for the first year was General Secretary Teng Jie.He Zhonghan took over in the following year, and Liu Jianqun in the third year.In addition to the secretariat, there were four other departments: the General Affairs Office headed by Zheng Jiemin, the Organization Office under Xiao Zanyu, the Propaganda Office led by Kang Ze, and the Secret Service Office under the command of Gui Yongqing first and then Dai Li.

In January 1933, as more and more representatives came to Lixingshe from various peripheral organizations, another procuratorial committee was established.It directs the work of the branch, enforces discipline, examines accounts and presides over the swearing-in of new members.Its members obey the command of the board of directors, but they have the right to detain and shoot lawbreakers within the organization, and their secret reports can be directly submitted to the secretariat of the Lixingshe. In order to enforce the principle of secrecy, they all swore not to leak the secrets, and the cadres decided to establish two front organizations.The first is the Revolutionary Soldiers Comrades Association, with Pan Youqiang as the executive officer and general secretary.The comrades' association was very successful very quickly, and its membership also increased rapidly.Many believed that its popularity was due to the sponsorship of Hu Zongnan, who would be considered an arm in the army for the "Zhejiang Circle" (including Dai Li).As a result, the Revolutionary Army Comrades were quickly disbanded. In 1933, after the establishment of the Chunli Xingshe Congress, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the abolition of the Revolutionary Soldiers Comrades Association on the grounds that it would interfere with the normal command system in the army.However, he authorized the establishment of a military department within the Lixingshe headquarters, and appointed Du Xinru as its leader.

The second peripheral organization existed as long as the Lixingshe. It was called the "Revolutionary Youth Comrade Association" and was an "inner layer" of the Lixingshe.Ge Wuqi served as executive officer and general secretary, Qian Guoxun was in charge of organization, Kang Ze was in charge of propaganda, and Liu Chengzhi dispatched general affairs.The Revolutionary Youth Comrades Association was the earliest cover organization of the Lixingshe: its name was used to recruit new members, and with its funding, many Lixingshe espionage activities were carried out in other organizations and institutions.Most members are Whampoa graduates or middle-level cadres of other right-wing organizations.There are also senior intellectuals, including university professors, and middle-level bureaucrats such as party secretaries, section chiefs, division chiefs, bureau chiefs, and department chiefs.All backbones or secretaries at the inner level of the organization are either members of the Lixing Society, or central-level cadres after the society has expanded through branches.The headquarters of the Revolutionary Youth Comrades Association is located in the investigation department of the Alumni Information Bureau in the Mingwalang compound of Nanjing Central Military Academy.

The Revolutionary Youth Comrades Association once had 20,000 members and was strengthened through "democratic centralization" and the budgetary system.The funding for each level of the association is allocated by the higher level.The total funding was subsidized by membership fees, but the main funding came from a special department of the Military Council and was personally approved by Chiang Kai-shek.The local organizations at each level of the organization are obviously the communications department of the Investigation Bureau under the Military Commission, which is responsible for investigating graduates from various schools in the Central Military Commission, and is also linked to the Whampoa Alumni Association.All provincial and municipal branch offices have a signboard of the Communication Department on the door, which has the right to issue ID cards to the staff of the agency.However, clerks and heads of groups can operate publicly with military titles such as staff officers.Each branch has a pseudonym.Selected aliases are subject to provincial or central office approval before being used in all communications.Higher-level organizations call lower-level organizations "brothers," and lower-level organizations use "brothers" to call higher-level organizations.

"Long" and "less", "core" and "inner layer" quickly came together to control the key ideological indoctrination programs in the Kuomintang military and political training system that military and political officials participated in.Members of the Lixingshe and Revolutionary Youth Association participated in the political training of cadres in the infantry, artillery, engineering and military departments, and thoroughly infiltrated the local personnel management conferences under the Ministry of the Interior and the summer held for senior party cadres and military and political personnel in Lushan. in the training program.Members of the Lixingshe also commanded the Officers' Higher Education Column; in 1932, 600 cadets graduated from the column's six-month training course for the first six classes of the Central Military School.

Members of the Lixingshe and the Revolutionary Youth Association further controlled the leadership of the officer training classes attached to the military academy.After the merger of the four columns of this training unit in August 1932, there were 1,700 cadres ranging in rank from lieutenant to colonel. "In a glimpse: The column had three German advisors, most of whose graduates returned to their original positions, and a small number stayed in the military academy and became members of the teaching column.