Chapter 173 Northeast District Office

At the beginning of 1946, Wen Qiang was appointed as the director of the Northeast Office of the Military Command, which operated in the name of the Northeast Xingyuan Supervision Office.As the core group, the Division worked closely with Li Zongren, then commander of the Peking Command of the Chinese Kuomintang theater.The jurisdiction of the Northeast Office extends from Beiping and Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou and Xincheng.It was a strategic location, as both Nationalist and Communist military generals fought to capture Chengde in order to occupy Shenyang.The Kuomintang won in this specific contest, and once Shenyang became theirs, Dai Li was in the "Oriental Culture Research Society" (which was nominally headed by a former president of Chung Cheng University in Northeast China but was actually controlled by Wen Qiang). ) began to set up the Northeast Office of the Military Control Branch under the public name.All Japanese deserters who defected to the army were reported to this unit, and then the office provided them with ID cards, passports and travel documents.

The Shenyang station of the military command also controlled a secret communication unit, the "Special Research Society", which employed more than 20 cryptanalysts who had been in the Japanese Imperial Army Expeditionary Headquarters to monitor the Communist Party's communications from Yan'an.The cryptographers were captured in Beijing and sent to Shenyang, where they were stationed behind the Dongya Tobacco Factory on Pingma Road.Their wireless communication antenna on the north side of Zhongshan Park is aimed in the direction of Yan'an.However, although they detected hundreds of telegrams, they were still unable to decipher the code of the People's Liberation Army.In June 1946, after Dai Li's death, Wen Qiang, who was temporarily summoned to Peiping, finally decided to close the unit and sent the Japanese cryptographers home.

Although the Northeast Office devoted a considerable part of its energy to anti-communism, most of their work was used to recruit Japanese residents and prisoners of war in the Northeast as intelligence agents.The Japanese management personnel who are part of the Japanese and Korean team of the Northeast Office are ostensibly in charge of returning to the country.But the Japan-Korea group actually contains a secret agency led by Liu Zhize and Zhang Rui.Zhang Rui lured Fukuda Tokujir, the Japanese intelligence chief lurking in the Northeast, out of the cave. At that time, it was believed that there were as many as 100,000 Kwantung Army lurking in the Changbai Mountain area, so a special office called the "Japanese Army Surrender Team" was set up in Bao'an to be responsible for sending them back to China.With the office's support, General Fukuda organized a Japanese task force that actually went into the mountains to find lost Japanese units in the hope of persuading them to surrender. In October 1946, Wen Qiang also organized a military advance liaison group composed of the Military Command, the Central Command, the Three Youth League and the intelligence group of the Institute of International Studies.This liaison group not only guided a Japanese spy team that assisted General Fukuda in Changbai Mountain, but also arranged for the release of a series of Japanese war criminals, allowing them to do intelligence work for the Kuomintang.

The key figure in this arrangement was Niizato Ichir, whom Zhang Rui contacted in Shenyang.Koshiba was the Northeast representative of the Japan Imperial League, a group of imperial loyalists controlled by the emperor's younger brother, who claimed that many members of the Kwantung Army hiding in the Changbai Mountains remained loyal to the emperor.Shinri Ichiro not only revealed to Wen Qiang the hiding places of those troops, but the two also discussed the possibility of using the surrendered Japanese army to deal with the Communist Party in the Northeast. The final element in the plan for closer relations with the Japanese was the establishment of a branch of the "Japanese Nationalist Party" in Tokyo. In July 1946, the Juntong sent some Japanese agents back to Tokyo to establish the Institute of Oriental Culture as a cover for this activity.The Juntong hoped to eventually set up its own China Liaison Office in U.S.-occupied Japan, with Zhang Rui as its military attache.These plans fell through when the Kuomintang was defeated in the civil war.