Chapter 86 Chapter 14 Police Academy

Modern Chinese historians are quite familiar with the story of the establishment of the Sino-US Cooperation Institute led by General Dai Li and Admiral Mellors in the Pacific War.At the end of the war, the Sino-US Cooperation Institute was praised by the American media as a successful example of Sino-American cooperation in the guerrilla resistance against Japan, but its dark side—Dai Li’s vicious secret police trained by American military and police advisers, finally used their The fact that "scientific" techniques were used to deal with the underground Communist Party - it took a long time to come to light.

This is partly because the United States, which was in charge of the project at the time, deliberately kept the Chinese side out of the personnel arrangement of the senior spy unit that trained Dai Li.Partly because, until the 1980s, it was easier for Western historians to obtain the KMT’s positive narrative on SACO, while Communist Party historians sharply accused the United States of intervening in the training of Chiang Kai-shek’s counter-espionage cadres. It is difficult to know.Now, however, not only is it possible to gain a better understanding of the nature of KMT's alliance with the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence and the Bureau of Strategic Operations, but it can also be established that U.S. control of the Chinese police began a decade before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Training begins.

Modern spies are the product of training courses and professional schools.Since the advent of the Cheka, spies and agents have all started in such a special form without exception: the opening of training institutions and short-term training courses has officially transformed it from a purely civilian nature to an outright agent nature.The military school experience is deeper and more enduring than a professional intelligence training class, but the latter experience is more intense, not least because it must develop the critical secrecy required to hide the secret identity of an undercover agent. "Spy King" Dai Li has long realized the importance of this form of professional training, and shortly after he opened the office of the Whampoa Alumni Association, he set up a special "training institute" to develop his backbone of secret agents.

The secret agent training system flourished independently only after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.Prior to this, and in the immediate aftermath of the Pacific War (when U.S. aid proved to be crucial), Dai Li's training unit had to be behind the scenes and within the formal police school structure that developed in China in the early twentieth century , working hand in hand with modern police force agencies.