Chapter 127 backbone

As an extension of the Linli special training class, the Qianyang special training class is the second of the five regular cadre regional training classes of the Military Command—the other three are the Xifeng training class, the Lanzhou training class, and the Southeast special training class.During the war, from 1939 to 1945, these training units trained about 13,500 military intelligence, espionage, operations, telecommunications and guerrilla warfare professionals. In addition, there is a central training system for military command cadres and intelligence personnel, which trains military officers, military attaches abroad, telecommunications personnel, professionals in Communist Party organization and tactics, foreign affairs experts who operate abroad under the cover of a diplomatic career, and German, French , English and Japanese translations.

The most prestigious central training institution in Chongqing selected 250 of the most outstanding graduates from the training classes in Linli, Qianyang, Xifeng, Lanzhou, and Southeast. months of rigorous advanced intelligence technical training.The training was taught by Dai Li's most experienced instructors and 50 officers and soldiers from the Sino-US Cooperation Institute under the US Office of Strategic Affairs and Naval Intelligence.The lowest-level unit in the military training system used a one-month crash course (specialized in preliminary training in intelligence gathering and liaison work) to train 500 officials and administrators recommended from various important KMT central government ministries, so that they could After that, he became a secret agent of the military command.Needless to say, many have done so.A third local training system was set up to train agents and counterintelligence experts who would fight the Communists in the Northwest, as well as experts who went to work in Taiwan to assist the US military in attacking the island.Finally, there is a set of overseas training institutions under the control of the military command to train Vietnamese agents sent to Indochina to fight against Japan (and in some cases against France) and overseas Chinese who were sent as military command agents to Burma, the Malaya Peninsula and their hometown in the Philippines .

Before the establishment of Sino-US Cooperation Institute, the core of the training organization was still the Linli-Qianyang-Xifeng-Lanzhou-Southeast system for training the "backbone".These training points are the core of Dai Li's "kingdom", and he regards them as his own team, himself as the director, and the leader of each class as the "deputy director".Somewhat oddly, these special training units became the epitome of his entire secret "kingdom".When these training sites were first established, Dai Li would appoint his own special agent as the local county magistrate, both to prepare for the establishment of the training site and to protect and conceal its existence.These units were often set up in various normal schools, which had once produced a group of careerists with a strong desire for power, such as Dai Li himself, Hu Zongnan, He Zhonghan, and many others.Every time the "director" inspects the training site (he goes every year), it's like an emperor's tour.

During the eight years he lived in Chongqing, Dai Li visited every training site in the area and attended a graduation ceremony specially arranged to coincide with his visit.Within the military system, this is called "outing patrol".There will be two special cars ready for the spy chief so that he can take them in rotation.His entourage included an adjutant, a secretary, assistants, personal chef, a laundry woman, telegraph operator, cipher clerk, plus personnel, intelligence, operations, training staff and police, all with their own vehicles.Two or three truckloads of plainclothes guards and armed police guards selected from the military command.Dai Li then visited "his" training units (often located in a county under the jurisdiction of "his" magistrate) like a governor, to show ownership of "his" students.

We have already seen in the case of Yu Lexing and Linli students how jealous Dai Li would be of the instructors if they surpassed him in prestige.Even after Dai Li replaced Yu Lexing for the last time, he has never been able to forgive Yu for challenging himself, especially as Linli graduates continue to show respect and affection for their former deputy director.Every time Yu Lexing came to Chongqing, at least hundreds of Linli graduates would organize a banquet for him and invite him to speak after the banquet.Yu always urged his students to work hard for the juntong and to be loyal to Dai Li, but this did nothing to appease the spy chief, who eventually threw Yu Lexing into the juntong prison, where he was held for more than a year.