Chapter 94 Dai Li and Zhejiang Police Academy

Dai Li seized control of the Zhejiang Police Academy in 1932.At that time, the students of the second regular course had just graduated and lived in the dormitory of the alumni association at No. 30 Xiongzhen Building, waiting for assignment.Taking advantage of the powers Chiang Kai-shek had granted him as a "political commissioner" in the Zhejiang Police Academy's special training class and direct radio contact with the government, Dai Li brought a team of special agents into the police academy.Wang Kong'an, Mao Renfeng, Mao Zongliang, Zhao Longwen, Hu Guozhen, Xie Juecheng, Luo Xingfang, and Liu Yiguang were included in this team of agents, and they completely controlled the entire school during the vacation that year.Wang Kong'an was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Political Training Department, Mao Renfeng as the Secretary, and Mao Zongliang as the Communications Officer.The rest were appointed as political instructors.By the autumn of 1932, Dai Li had set up a special training class for secret agents under the cover of the Political Department, divided into classes A, B, C, and communications.The semester of each class is 6 months, and it consists of 2 to 30 people, who will be the core personnel of the Secret Service.Thus, "many high-level secret agents in the late period of military control"—in the mid-1940s such "high-ranking cadres" included Mao Sen, Xiao Bo, Yang Chaoqun, Ruan Qingyuan, Ding Mozhen, Zhang Weihan, Lou Zhaoyuan, and Huang Yong ——From 1932 to 1935, they all received their initial underground training in Zhejiang Police Academy.

The second training class is composed of 30 students selected from the police academy graduation class every year.Their monitor is Liu Yiguang, who is also the political instructor of the class.After the training class, the graduates were sent to Chiang Kai-shek's security team as plainclothes agents. The third class, or C training class, is for the training of cover personnel, that is, female agents.Six girls selected from the police academy graduates were sent to a special training class presided over by Zhang Cuiwu, a female instructor of the police school.Before these students were assigned to the secret service as "covering relations personnel", they specialized in courses such as hairdressing and cooking.

Class One or Class A is the most important of several training classes, and its graduates are assigned to the Secret Service as the backbone and operate directly under the leadership of the chief.Dai Li is nominally the head instructor of the training class, which is composed of graduates of the second and third classes of the police academy and those who have already served as current secret agents in the Secret Service.The actual instructor is Yu Lexing, who guides the training class at No. 30 Xiongzhen Building. He also teaches the theory of secret agents and how to use drugs and morphine.Former Communist Party member Xie Ligong taught military geography, international spies and ciphers; Li Shizhang taught political parties and their factions; Liang Hanfen taught traces; Yin Zhenqiu taught blasting; Guan Rongde taught shorthand; ; Jin Minjie taught capture; Liu Jinsheng taught Chinese martial arts; Zeng Timing and Huang Siqin taught driving;The Japanese class is in charge of Huo Shuying and a Japanese named Kazutaka Yamada.

The main textbooks were learned from the Communist Party.Wang Xinheng, who had studied in the Soviet Union, translated two Russian books: GPU and Cheka.The students also read "The Theory and Techniques of Secret Service" written by Gu Shunzhang (the leader of the Communist Party in defense, who defected to the Secret Service under Chen Lifu and Xu Enzeng in Hankou in 1931, and later defected to Dai Li. Gu Shunzhang's knowledge of Bolshevik secret agents , was perfected by his practice as a liaison officer in the rural and urban branches of the Communist Party. In fact, former military officials believed that Gu’s information was so valuable to Dai Li, which may have contributed to his death. According to them, Gu Shunzhang’s role as the largest The Communist Party "traitor" who joined the "Zhongtong" was murdered shortly after. Although the killer was never caught, historians who study Zhongtong believe that the assassin was sent by Chen Lifu. Because Chen Lifu could not forgive Gu for offering advice to Dai Li , so Chen wanted to prevent the "Spy King" from extracting secrets from this Communist. But Chen Lifu denied this, and he reminded the author of this book: Gu Shunzhang must be eliminated because he is a murderer.

By 1935, the Zhejiang Police Academy was completely under Dai Li's control.But in the same year, Chiang Kai-shek announced the merger of Zhejiang Police Academy and Jiangsu Police Academy to form a "Central Police Academy".This merger represents both a challenge and an opportunity for Dai Li.