In the autumn of 1949, Jiao Yunjun, an underground party member who was on a mission in Suzhou , suddenly received a notice asking him to return to Shanghai immediately. It was the first time that I received a transfer order while I was working outside.
Before leaving, the leader was uncharacteristically serious, but gently shook Jiao Yunjun's hand. From this action, Jiao Yunjun sensitively captured a message: he might have been transferred, and this handshake was a farewell.
At seven o'clock that evening, Jiao Yunjun dressed up as a vendor and came to a secret contact point in the western suburbs of Shanghai. Not long after, six more unattractive-looking men came in one after another. Afterwards, the new leader came to everyone, and after entering the door, he announced the names and positions of the seven people present. When Jiao Yunjun heard it, he found that they were all with similar qualifications to his own. They were deputy battalion level officers who had been engaged in underground work since the days of the Red Army.
What kind of case is it that deserves the East China Bureau to mobilize so much effort?
A poor family named Qin lives in an old street in Hong Town, Shanghai. There is a nine-year-old boy named Ah Si. This morning, while he was begging from a customer, he was stopped by a blond and blue-eyed foreign beauty who could also speak fluent Shanghainese. Three days ago, Ah Si Tou picked up a foreign leather bag and took it to a thrift store to exchange for 100,000 yuan. And this leather bag belongs to a foreign beauty, and she came here just to ask about the condition of her bag.
After Ah Si Tou changed his leather bag, he kept all the contents in the bag at home. In that era, ordinary people were very wary of the activities of enemy agents, and Ah Si Tou, who was walking in the streets, was no exception. When questioned by the foreign beauty, he remembered the police's instructions and did not tell the truth. After he parted with the foreign beauty, he quickly found the police and returned to his home to take out a hard-cover book in his bag.
I saw that the hard-cover notebooks were all written in foreign languages, and there were also some drawings and patterns, which looked like the outlines of buildings. After the branch leader read the hard-cover book, he sealed it in a file bag without saying a word and handed it over to the East China Bureau. Subsequently, Jiao Yunjun and others were urgently transferred to form a task force.
It turns out that what was recorded in the hard-cover book was top-secret information about the "Project 101" that Soviet experts secretly assisted our army in building naval ships. The pattern drawn was the slipway used to park the manufactured ships. This incident even alarmed the central government, who requested the East China Bureau overnight to set up a special team to investigate.
But after several days of investigation, the task force still found nothing. At this time, the East China Bureau intercepted a secret message from Taiwan's "Secret Bureau", and the recipient was an enemy agent code-named "Lao Liu". The telegram was personally approved by Mao Renfeng, saying that they had received slipway information and asked them to continue collecting design drawings of warships.
The members of the task force were immediately in an uproar. The enemy agents actually passed on this lost intelligence and wanted to go further. Time was running out, and the leaders of the East China Bureau ignored criticism and directly demanded that the task force must solve the case as soon as possible. Perhaps due to a flash of inspiration caused by too much pressure, when the task force held another analysis meeting, Jiao Yunjun suddenly came up with a bold idea.
Previously, the task force had limited the scope of leakers to the ship engineering team, but after a long period of investigation, they found nothing. Jiao Yunjun believed that the person who collected intelligence might have climbed onto the large chimney outside the shipyard and used a magnifying glass to observe and draw sketches.
As soon as these words came out, the other investigators were shocked. Is this okay? Jiao Yunjun said with a smile: "Of course. Before the Battle of Shanghai, I was ordered to investigate the Kuomintang's artillery position at Wusongkou, and also map out the location of each artillery piece and barracks. I sneaked into the water plant near the artillery position. , climbed to the top of the water tower to look through the telescope in the middle of the night, and started drawing at dawn, and it took a whole day to complete the drawing. "
In this way, the difficulty of observing and drawing the shipboard is much easier than that of an entire artillery position. The enemy agents. It's totally possible to use it this way. The task force came to the big chimney, climbed up and observed with binoculars, and sure enough they saw the slipway clearly.
By visiting the large chimney, the task force obtained an important piece of information: a man named Huang Chunhe wandered around the chimney many times. This person was arranged by the Kuomintang to enter the shipyard after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.After the task force searched his home, they found a pair of military binoculars .
It turned out that a few months ago, someone approached him for a price of one million yuan, asking him to use his job to climb the chimney and draw a picture of the slipway, and also provided him with military binoculars. But the man who asked him to draw had already disappeared.
The story is divided into two parts. The mastermind of the leak, Song Siyi, the director of the Sixth Office of the Kuomintang and an enemy agent codenamed "Lao Liu", has not been having a good time these days. Although he received the "commendation" from Taiwan, he was asked to further collect the drawings of the torpedo speedboat , which put him in a difficult position.
originally collected information about the slipway, which was a method he found out of desperation. He wanted to delay the time. Maybe his boss would stop the project, but unexpectedly, a reminder came. This is information of common concern to the Kuomintang and the CIA, and it cannot be fooled. The foreign beauty whose wallet was stolen before was the subordinate chosen by the CIA for Song Siyi, named Yulia.
Just when Song Siyi had a headache, Yulia found him and said that she had a shortcut to collect intelligence. It turned out that the CIA did not know where it got the information and learned that there was a translator named Ma Nianshu in the Soviet aid "Project 101". His father and Yulia's father were classmates when they were young. If we can go through Ma Nianshu's line, that would be great. The
task force is still struggling to find clues. Jiao Yunjun followed the previous agreement and went to meet with Major Andre, who was responsible for the security work of the 101 Project Expert Group. The meeting place was at a hotel, but when he entered, Jiao Yunjun was attracted by the colorful small advertisement at the door of the hotel.
Major Andre was very surprised and asked: "What are you looking at?" Jiao Yunjun stared at an advertisement for a Russian restaurant, which said something about professional Russian dishes, vodka, , and so on. Major Andrei recalled it and was surprised to realize that this was the Russian hotel where Dr. Nikolai of the expert team celebrated his birthday yesterday.
At this birthday party, the translator Ma Nianshu who went with him unexpectedly met Yulia, a family friend - this was naturally Song Siyi's masterpiece.
juntong has a meeting point in Shanghai, which is a restaurant. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Siyi transformed the place into a Russian restaurant and asked Yulia to find a photo of his father and Ma Nianshu's father when he was young and place it in a prominent position. Then he posted advertisements everywhere to attract Soviet experts to dine here.
As expected, Soviet experts came to this rare Russian restaurant. Ma Nianshu accidentally discovered that many of the photos in the restaurant were seen in his own photo album, so it was natural for him to meet Yulia, the "female owner" of the restaurant.
After Jiao Yunjun heard about this, his many years of underground work experience made him very alert: This is all such a coincidence, why did he see this advertisement? How come the translator and the boss are family friends? After returning to the task force, Jiao Yunjun immediately found Yulia's household registration photo, found A Si Tou, and asked him to identify if she was the foreign beauty. A Si Tou recognized Yulia as expected. The
task force decided not to alert the enemy first, but to do a good job of Ma Nianshu and let him contact Yulia, and then follow the clues to catch all the enemy organizations behind Yulia.
The next action was much smoother. In less than half a month, Yulia "bribed" Ma Nianshu and obtained the "top secret drawings." At the same time, the task force secretly and closely monitored Yulia and finally figured out the basic situation of "Room Six". On September 30, 1949, the East China Social Affairs Bureau task force, with the cooperation of hundreds of military police, arrested six spies headed by Song Siyi.
A few days later, according to orders from superiors, Song Siyi and others were escorted to Beijing. Song Siyi and three others were sentenced to death, Yulia committed suicide in custody, and the other persons were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment .
On October 20, the East China Bureau held a banquet to celebrate the seven investigators and announced an important decision: With the approval of superiors, the task force was renamed the "East China Special Case Team" and will continue to serve as a standing team dedicated to detecting major and important cases in East China. .
