January 15, 1974 at 10 o'clock in the evening, the Xiba River Bridge in Beijing.
Back then, the area around the Xiba River was still desolate. There were only a dozen houses scattered here and there, and there were not many lights, not even a bark. It seemed unusually quiet, and it seemed abnormal.
Suddenly, the sound of a car's motor came from far to near, towards the Xiba River Bridge. The car drove very slowly, the modified lights were very dim, and the motor sound was not loud, but in the quiet and dark night, there was still some noise. Conspicuous.
The car stopped, and two figures, one tall and one short, got off the car and walked towards the Xiba River Bridge. The car turned off the lights and fell into silence.
About ten minutes later, a red signal flare suddenly jumped up in the silent, dark night sky, illuminating the entire Xiba River Bridge transparently. "
Four days later, on January 19, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of our country urgently summoned the Soviet ambassador to China, handed in a note of protest, made a strong protest, and announced that the first secretary of the Soviet embassy in China, V. I. Marchenko and his wife, and the third secretary Yu · A. Semenov and his wife, A. A. Kolosov and other 5 people who were translated by the military attache as unwelcome persons , and immediately deported .
The next day, January 20, the People's Daily reported on the incident. On January 23, the People's Daily published an article titled "The Capture of Soviet Revival Spy". disclosed the process by which our public security organs captured the Soviet revisionist spy on the evening of January 15. It also revealed that five Soviet embassy personnel were expelled. The reason - to engage in illegal espionage activities in our country.
What many people don't know is that on the same day that my country expelled the five Soviet embassy personnel, the Soviet Union immediately retaliated against my country. Guan Hengguang, the attache of the Chinese embassy in the Soviet Union, was taken by the Soviet Union when he passed through Irkutsk on the train . In the name of espionage, KGB agents brought to Moscow involuntarily, and then was listed as persona non grata and left the country within a time limit.
This seems to be a fierce diplomatic incident, behind which is the contest between China and the Soviet Union on the hidden front.
Many people who have read the article or the comic strip "The Capture of Soviet Spy on the Net" will think that Li Hongshu is a traitor to my country and a spy of the Soviet Union.
But in fact, Li Hongshu is an out-and-out "double spy". He was a Soviet spy at first, but was later captured by my country and won over, and cooperated with our country's public security organs to perform " against ".
In this year, my country used Soviet spy Li Hongshu as bait and used counter tactics to crack a major Soviet espionage case under the command of Premier Zhou himself. Who is Li Hongshu? How did he betray? What the hell did the 5 Soviet embassy staff do? What is the final outcome of Li Hongshu? This article will take you to uncover the real story behind "The Story of Su Xiu's Spy Captured".
Li Hongshu is from Shuangya Mountain, Heilongjiang Province. His parents died when he was a child. He was brought up by his brother and sister-in-law, so Li Hongshu has deep feelings for his brother and sister-in-law. Li Hongshu's home is very close to the Sino-Soviet border. A few years ago, his brother and sister-in-law sneaked across the border to the Soviet Union with his little nephew.
In April 1967, Li Hongshu betrayed the motherland, stole across the border, and went to the Soviet Union like his brother and sister-in-law.
Today, this kind of behavior of Li Hongshu is called smuggling, but it was called defection at the time. It was a serious treason crime. Once he went out, he dared not come back.
At that time, Sino-Soviet relations were further deteriorating. The Soviet Union used some stowaways who defected to obtain domestic intelligence in my country, while for some potential stowaways, the Soviet Union deliberately cultivated them, trained them as spies and sent them back to China for their own use.
Li Hongshu's brother, sister-in-law, and nephew are all in the Soviet Union, and have relatives as "hostages", so they were taken by the Soviet Union.
In June 1972, under the instruction of the Soviet spy agency, Li Hongshu secretly crossed the border and sneaked back to China.
However, neither the Soviet Union nor Li Hongshu himself thought that he would be secretly arrested by our country as soon as he set foot on Chinese soil and before he had time to start his work.
At that time, the Soviet Union did not know that Li Hongshu had been arrested. After the top leaders of the central government learned about it, they decided to take the plan and use Li Hongshu as bait to set a long line to catch big fish and catch the big Soviet spy in our country.
In order to handle this case well, Premier Zhou Enlai personally directed the establishment of a task force. The task force was led by the founding major general and Minister of Public Security Li Zhen, the deputy leader was Major General Shi Yiyi, and the members were Deputy Ministers of Public Security Yu Sang and Liu Fuzhi. Wu De, secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Wu Zhong, commander of the Beijing Garrison District, Liu Chuanxin, director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, and Cheng Cheng, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, have a very strong lineup.
The process of winning over Li Hongshu was difficult.
At the beginning, Li Hongshu was very uncooperative and kept silent no matter what, but we did not give up. In order to gain Li Hongshu's trust, the members of the task force stayed with him, spoke in front of him, and did everything in front of him. Not shy, even brought him to chat, play poker, joke, and try to get along with Li Hongshu.
Slowly, Li Hongshu was not as hostile and guarded as before, and he also joked with everyone, but his mood was very unstable, and he was fighting fiercely in his heart.
A few months later, Li Hongshu finally changed his mind completely, admitted his crime of betraying the motherland and acting as a spy for the Soviet Union, and made a deep repentance, expressing his willingness to cooperate with my country and implement countermeasures.
In order to paralyze the Soviet Union, the task force asked Li Hongshu to send some information to the Soviet spy agency at intervals. Some of these information are true and false, and some of them have certain value, but they will not hinder our national interests. The false, false and factual approach, on the contrary, made the Soviet Union believe it, and felt that Li Hongshu was exerting his own value.
In this way, under our bewilderment, Li Hongshu gradually gained the trust of the Soviet intelligence agencies. On December 27, 1973, Moscow sent a secret telegram to Li Hongshu, instructing him to go to Beijing, and agreed to meet with the Soviet embassy staff under the Xiba Bridge on Beihuan East Road from 9:30 to 10 pm on January 15, 1974. Connect, receive secret radio stations, and hand over information. After receiving the secret telegram, the
task force made a series of careful preparations. On January 10, 1974, the task force used Li Hongshu's micro-radio station near the Xiba River embankment in Beijing to send a secret contact signal, saying "I have arrived in Beijing safely" , and soon after the signal was sent, it received a reply from the Soviet embassy, indicating "Ready" , the fish is finally hooked.
At that time, the Xiba River area was still very desolate, but for the sake of mission safety, the task force still sealed off this area in secret. Several scattered nearby residents were only allowed to enter but not to leave. The dogs raised by the residents were stuffed with narcotics. Under the bed, in order to prevent dogs from barking and alarming snakes, but for Li Hongshu's personal safety, he was not present.
At 9:45 p.m. on January 15th, a car quietly entered our encirclement. The license plate number of the car was pasted, but at a glance, it was a Soviet Volga car. After disguising, the members of the task force rushed to the Xiba River Bridge and said the code words for the joint according to the agreement: "I am A Lin!"
After the two sides approached, the members of the task force found that the other party was indeed a Soviet man with a high nose and deep eyes, and repeated the code in Russian "I am Alin!" After that, the two sides exchanged things in their hands.
Just as the two sides turned around to leave, a signal flare suddenly cut through the night sky, and the members of the task force who had been in ambush for a long time rushed out and captured the other party in one fell swoop. Also arrested were three people sitting in the car.
Verified that they are all staff of the Soviet embassy. The
task force seized the intelligence materials, secret radio stations, contact timetables, steganographic tools, and forged border pass and other espionage items handed over by the two parties on the spot, as well as 5,000 yuan of activity funds.
people got all the stolen goods, and the evidence was conclusive. The five captured Soviet embassy personnel had to admit their spy status. A major Soviet espionage case featuring "countermeasures" was finally solved.
Although the Soviet Union later retaliated against my country by declaring Guan Hengguang, the attaché of the Chinese Embassy in the Soviet Union, as persona non grata and leaving the country within a time limit in the name of espionage, the Soviet Union expelled our diplomatic personnel without any evidence, which caused strong contempt from all over the world.
The KGB in the Soviet Union has always been active, and even many countries in the socialist camp are afraid of it, especially many small countries dare not speak out about what the KGB did, but China took the lead in giving the Soviet KGB a good drink, and other countries He also took the courage to take the opportunity to expel a group of Soviet agents, causing the KGB to be severely damaged worldwide.
After the major case was solved, the People's Daily reported it, and also published a special article "The Capture of Soviet Revival Spies" , which published the full text of Li Hongshu's confession to confuse the enemy. In the process of our capture, the part that was arrested and actively cooperated with us was hidden.
Except for the senior leaders of the Central Committee and some core members of the task force, everyone believed that Li Hongshu was a Soviet agent who was only exposed and arrested on January 15, 1974 when he contacted five Soviet embassy personnel.
Because of this, the Soviet Union never knew that Li Hongshu had already been arrested by my country and was actively cooperating with him. The person who went to the meeting that day was not Li Hongshu himself, and the KGB never understood how its spy was exposed.
Since the "Soviet revisionist spy arrest case" is related to state secrets and Sino-Soviet diplomatic relations, and to protect Li Hongshu's personal safety, 's official public report on the case is very concise and to the point, never mentioning Li Hongshu. It is a "double agent", and it has not disclosed the specific process of my country's use of "anti-intermediate tactics" to crack the Soviet espionage case.
Many years have passed, and people can only see the official report on the "Soviet Special Agent Li Hongshu". In the 1990s, with the declassification of a number of cases, the "Soviet Special Agent Li Hongshu" dossier was finally released. Only after being spied on by historians, the true identity of Li Hongshu, the "double spy", was gradually known.
So, as the protagonist of this major Soviet espionage case, what happened to Li Hongshu?
After the success was completed, the task force reported to Premier Zhou. Premier Zhou said, "You have made a great contribution, and Li Hongshu has also made a great contribution." Under Premier Zhou's personal care, the relevant departments changed Li Hongshu's name and surname, and arranged for him got a job.
Since then, Li Hongshu has worked in a factory in Beijing under another name and identity, and later married a wife and a daughter, and has been living a peaceful and stable life. He never mentioned this past history to anyone. No one knows the true identity of Li Hongshu and the thrilling history.
