Chapter 175 Dai Li, Melles and the Cold War

On March 1, 1946, the Sino-US Cooperation Institute was officially dissolved under the spirit of the contract signed by Pan Qiwu and the US staff.All the materials were used by the Military Command, while the United States assisted in transporting the special forces under the command of the Military Command to the southeast to occupy Shanghai and northern Zhejiang.The U.S. side also agreed to deliver 3,000 tons of weapons from Okinawa to Qinhuangdao, and at the same time send graduates of the Sino-U.S. Cooperation Institute’s police training course to the police forces in Nanjing, Tianjin, and Beiping.It is said that Melles once told Dai Li: "The enemy of Japan has been defeated, but we still need to help China defeat another fierce enemy, which is the Communist Party."

At the same time, Dai Li was very prejudiced against the peace talks hosted by General Marshall.The crux of the matter, he said, is relative military strength.Yan'an is as aware of this as Chongqing, but the Americans are whimsical.Here the communists have an advantage because they are more able to take a moderate stance towards foreigners. "The Communist Party's soft kung fu is better than hard kung fu, and soft kung fu can confuse people." That is to say, they can confuse world public opinion even more. However, despite Chiang Kai-shek's growing unpopularity at home, the American public increasingly supported Chiang, seeing him as the last best hope for the Kuomintang-controlled area.As the Cold War intensified, the fact that the U.S. Navy in China took part in Dai Li's anti-communist activities became a badge of honor, and Melles looked more and more like a character from the movie "Terry and the Pirates."Ten years after the armistice of the Korean War, Roy Stratton described in his book a leaflet (which is said to have appeared in print, none of which seems to have survived), which was used in the war against Japan. During this period they spread throughout Asia, offering a reward of "life or death - $1 million" to officials, police and underground elements to hunt down the leaders of SACO because they were both the Communist Party and the enemy of the Japanese. "The pursuers were Japanese Army and Chinese Communist forces, and those pursued were Lieutenant General Dai Li, head of the Chinese Nationalist Secret Police, and his American deputy, Colonel Milton Mellors (later retired with the rank of Vice Admiral) . . . With 100,000 guerrillas, 25,000 pirates, and 3,000 American technicians and instructors under their command, this Chinese general and American colonel have caused enough suffering to the Japanese and the Chinese Communist Party. They and General Claire Chennault Together, Tojo Hideki and Mao Zedong are on the death penalty list."