Chapter 143 Geleshan

Geleshan is a hilly area, which is divided into three basins about 6 kilometers wide and 10 kilometers deep. At first glance, it looks like a "lovely place", an idyllic place under a pine-covered mountain.Three canyons form right angles to the main mountain range, and small farms in each canyon are connected by gurgling water. From Gele Mountain in Chongqing to Shafan District, it is adjacent to rolling hills and vast valleys, 13 miles long and more than 20 miles in length and width, including Zhazidong, Meiyuan, Yangjiashan, Zaoshichang, Songlinpo, Baigongguan, Wuxi Lingguan, Hongluchang, Wang's Yard, Xiong's Yard, Xiaoyanggong Bridge, Zhu's Mansion, Buyun Bridge, Lanya and other places belong to the special zone of "SICO".

The secret hidden camp is surrounded by electric grids, armed patrol guards, and no trespassers will be shot or killed.The villages from Buyun Bridge to Gele Mountain were all blocked off and the common people were not allowed to pass through.Residents of Wuling Temple and other places were forcibly evicted.In the special zone, except for the special agents of the United States and Chiang Kai-shek who hold special passes, no one is allowed to enter or leave.Those who entered by mistake were arrested and killed. Throughout the war, Dai Li's men transformed the terraced fields into a base of 800 houses with the assistance of American materials and funds.The entire base included barracks, drill range, arsenal, shooting range, classrooms, sheriff's shed, pigeon coops, radio room, a prison and interrogation facilities.The southernmost of the three parallel valleys is the largest.There are some of Dai Li's residences, Mediterranean-style villas in the pine forest on the hillside above the canyon.Next to it is the military special agent training camp.Americans are stationed in the basin in the middle, they have their own clean canteen, western-style toilet facilities (Meles brought a toilet to this hill, and had it imitated in a local ceramics factory), auditorium and dance hall, Dai Li is there A banquet hosted by a "beautiful and stylishly dressed Chinese lady."Finally, to the north, in the smallest valley, lies a "grievous prison, of which there are many unhappy tales".Naturally, this is the concentration camp and torture chamber "White Mansion" described in "Red Rock".

In Dai Li's view, one of the most important provisions of the SACO agreement was the training of Chiang Kai-shek's agents (especially "criminal police cadres") on the model of American law enforcement agencies.This "training course for special police officers" would allow Dai Li to form his own investigative unit, thus rivaling the "Chinese FBI" of Chen Lifu's Central Bureau of Statistics.Melles realized that, in the eyes of the Chinese general, this was the most important barter for the Americans in the Saco guerrilla training program.

General Dai will stop at nothing to realize his wish.In response to his most sincere desire, we began to "try out" the model of the FBI school.So Major Charlie Johnston and four carefully selected experts arrived with a lot of equipment, a lot of energy and a lot of ideas. Johnston (in civilian life he was an FBI agent and later served as a legal counselor in Buenos Aires) led a team of experts that later expanded to more than 20 members, including former FBI agents, Treasury Department Narcotics inspectors, New York City police bomb disposal experts, fire investigators, state troopers, and a district attorney in Mississippi.These "destroy and defend" specialists were ordered to train Dai Li's senior agents in surveillance, interrogation and intelligence analysis using the latest technology and means (weapons, polygraphs, police dogs, shackles, pentosaurs, ballistics, etc.).

Later, Mel Les candidly admitted that in Geleshan "we have never been able to distinguish police activities from guerrilla activities." Our theory is, try to train as many people as possible to do what we need to do.Since Dai Li established a police academy in the early 1930s and has been in charge of it for five years, and in theory all the police in the occupied areas of China are under his command, we must use them.So we organized a class in Chongqing, and called police chiefs from all over the enemy-occupied areas to give them similar courses. His reasoning for training the secret police was that once they returned to the occupied areas to act as puppet police chiefs, they would play a key role in rescuing hundreds of downed American pilots who would otherwise have fallen into the hands of the enemy .

But neither then nor before, this explanation could not quell the criticism that Melles and Naval Intelligence used SACO to train Dai Li's secret police against dissidents, and sometimes even witnessed the torture of prisoners .Both the U.S. State Department and the Office of Strategic Intelligence opposed the formation of an "FBI school" in SACO to train Dai Li's secret police, because it seemed that "Dai Li was nakedly trying to ensure U.S. support for the KMT's internal political repression."In response to these attacks, General Dunovan, through Colonel Meiser, ordered Mellors to change the name of the training class "Police Squad" to "Counterintelligence Squad" and instructed: "The role of this squad should be directed as far as possible against opposition Enemy activity."