Chapter 122 train

By the summer of 1935, Dai Li had set up a "special training class" in the Hangzhou Police Academy. The trainees are mainly from the cadres with higher education levels in the Secret Service, and they are assigned to one of the six columns.Columns one to three trained ordinary secret police or security personnel; column four trained "all-round agents"; column five trained drivers; and column six was radio communications personnel.In addition, the term "secret agent" is not the preferred title of military commanders.They all knew it from the Japanese word tokumu, and they liked to use what Soviet agents called themselves: engaged in "revolutionary work", "revolutionary defense work", "intelligence work" or "investigative and statistical work".

Team Four, the most prestigious, has courses in cryptography, reconnaissance and surveillance, explosives, photography, driving, shooting, politics and foreign languages ​​(usually English and Japanese).Graduates go through a special midnight ceremony to join the Military Command: In a Buddhist temple, they bow to a portrait of Chiang Kai-shek under dim blue lanterns, swearing allegiance to the Three People's Principles, pledging allegiance in case of need. He gave his life for the leader.The students then end the ceremony by drinking chicken blood wine.Many of the graduates went on to become intelligence agents, working in the secret service (and later the military command) across the country.

In 1938, Dai Li also "emphasized that the work of military command is not something that ordinary people can do, so you must go through training and ideological assessment before you dare to let it go."Under his guidance, in the next seven years, the military command trained 200,000 basic cadres, 500,000 armed forces, and trained at least 5,000 communication personnel in 100 special training courses. Shen Zui narrated an anecdote about Dai Li. This anecdote can very well illustrate Dai Li's particular paranoia about establishing and monopolizing spy training classes.It was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, and a large number of exiled students provided a new source of talent for the recruitment of secret agents.As soon as Shanghai fell, Shen Zui reported to Dai Li that Liang Ganqiao, a former communist and one of the members of the Ten-member regiment, had set up a training class in Zhengzhou. For this reason, he took in more than 800 students from the occupied areas who could no longer go to school.Liang borrowed hundreds of rifles from Hu Zongnan and asked the Gendarmerie Corps to help train them, which exposed his intention to build an elite semi-military cadre team.

Dai Li immediately wrote a personal letter to Liang, ordering him to send all these educated patriotic youths to Hunan.The spy chief planned to build a military training school there, so as to use the talents formed by the loss of China's coast. After Chen Zui handed in the letter, Liang Ganqiao immediately realized that Dai Li had arbitrarily snatched away these new talents.He was so angry that he threw the letter on the ground and ordered Shen Zui to go to Zhongzheng Middle School to be a student trainer. Three days later, Yang Qingzhi, the security chief of the Metropolitan Police Department, took another more overbearing letter from Dai Li to Liang Ganqiao. There is no other choice than the staff.Liang also realized that he had lost the trust of Dai Li, an ex-communist who had first defected to Chiang Kai-shek's secret service, by wanting to personally supervise and train students who worked for the juntong.After the final confrontation with Shen Zui at Zhongzheng Middle School (Liang is said to have shouted: "You all get out! Get out tomorrow!"), Liang Qianqiao quit Dai Li's agent and went to the northwest to join Hu Zongnan.He later went to Yao County as an anti-communist commissioner and died in a battle.