Chapter 150 Dunnowen's visit

At this time, Dai Li was in trouble himself.A series of events alienated Song Ziwen and Madame Chiang from the Commander-in-Chief's "Spy King," including the discovery of Kang Sheng's sleeper in the KMT's secret police agency, the abolition of the Special Operations Team in China, and Washington's adoption of the Gestapo model for military reunification Growing complaints, etc.As a result, when Deng Novin (US strategic director) arrived in Chongqing on Dec 2, 1943, he found that Dai Li's position was not indestructible. Despite this, Deng Nuowen received a lavish welcome, including a reception full of ladies fluent in English and dancing in the ballroom of the Chongqing Police Association.The reception was followed by a banquet in Dai Li's mansion.Trying to stay sane, Dunovan completely underestimates his opponent, who he sees as nothing more than "a mediocre policeman with a medieval concept of intelligence work".

With typical bluntness, Deng Novwen told the head of China's secret police that if OSS did not receive assurances of Dai Li's cooperation, they would work in China alone.Dai Li was furious when he heard this, and said: He will execute any agent of the Strategic Intelligence Service who operates on Chinese territory or outside the Sino-US Cooperation Institute.Regarding this, Deng Nuowen slapped the table and shouted: "Every time you kill one of our agents, we will kill one of your generals!" "You can't talk to me like that." Dai Li growled. "That's what I'm talking to you about."

However, Deng Nuowen had no intentions, and once he spoke his mind, Dai Li calmed down, and the two of them shook hands again immediately. The day after the banquet, General Deng Nuowen met with Chiang Kai-shek.There are not many records of their conversation, but Melles collected the gist of the conversation from Liu Zhenfang, who served as Deng Nuowen's translator.According to Shaw, the chairman told the OSS director: At this point, Deng Nuowen had no choice but to agree to temporarily hand over the formal affairs of the Strategic Intelligence Service to Melles. At the same time, however, the intelligence chief began exploring other possibilities for establishing an independent intelligence operation in China beyond Melles and Dai Li.Within SACO, a dozen or so individuals of OSS's regular staff were headed by Colonel John Couglin, while Mellas continued to command the Navy (he was promoted to brigadier general at the end of the war as a result).Outside of SACO, Dunnovin and William Langer (Director of OSS Research) met with General Chennault in December 1943 to discuss establishing a special Fourteenth Flying Squadron to collect Tactical intelligence to identify enemy targets.