The Spring Festival in 1988 has special significance for the brothers and sisters surnamed Liu who originally lived in Beijing- Beixinqiao -Wang Daren Hutong. Because in this year, they learned about their father's identity and whereabouts.
. In order to pursue this truth, the Liu family has spent a full 38 years!
With a nervous mood and a glimmer of hope, the Liu brothers and sisters came to the national security department. Faced with the reception of full-time staff, they asked timidly:
"I heard that a while ago, an old underground party member returned from Taiwan and brought back a list of intelligence personnel who died in Taiwan. We would like to ask comrades, please help me check if there is a person on the list called Liu Guangdian ?"
This is not the first time that the Liu brothers and sisters have come here to ask about their father's whereabouts.
Looking at the nervous and expectant expressions of several middle-aged people, the reception staff still reported the situation to the department leaders.
After layers of organizational approval, the researchers found six words on a yellowed page:
"Liu Guangdian, from Lushun."
After obtaining the confirmation news from the relevant departments, the Liu brothers and sisters laughed happily first, and then cried loudly:
" Finally found Dad! We are not the children of traitors! "
And with the confirmation of the identity of martyr Liu Guangdian, a mystery that has been hidden for 38 years has been solved...
White Mountains and Black Waters cultivate talents, destroying the family and relieving difficulties and overcoming difficulties
In the eyes of the Liu brothers and sisters, his father Liu Guangdian is an extremely outstanding person. He is smart, motivated, upright and tenacious, and is the pillar of the family.
But since 949, dad has lost his sight. is so big, leaving only his mother Wang Sulian to work hard to raise three children.
What the Liu family didn’t know was that Liu Guangdian was not only an excellent businessman, but also an extremely outstanding underground worker of our party. And 1949 was Liu's second year in intelligence.
Liu Guangdian was born in 1922 in Jiucai Village, Lushun City, Liaoning Province.
His ancestors were from Laiyang, Shandong. At that time, the ancestors of the Liu family were forced to make a living, and accompanied their families to "break through Guandong" with their fellow villagers, and finally made a living by farming in Lushun, Liaoning. So Liu Guangdian is the son of a poor peasant family.
Although the family is in a difficult situation, it cannot erase Liu Guangdian's pride and motivated character. Although he went out to work and made a living very early, and worked as an apprentice, a drug dealer and an accountant, he never forgot to enrich himself.
Liu Guangdian always uses his spare time to study. He studied at Harbin Railway Engineering College and studied at Fu Ren University in Peking. He speaks fluently with his hard work.
After the newlywed in 1942, Liu Guangdian once wanted to live his life safely. In order to achieve stability, he even sought a "iron rice bowl" for the police in Shandong.
But in the Japanese-occupied area, the police's work is no different from that of a traitor.
Liu Guangdian witnessed the Japanese army bullying their compatriots with his own eyes, and he also wanted to "wipe the butt" for the Japanese and deal with the funeral.
He hated his work!
Out of disgust with the Japanese and the Wang puppet regime, Liu Guangdian chose to resign and has been engaged in a pharmaceutical business in the Northeast. His family lived a prosperous life.
1945, Liu Guangdian, who finally managed to get out of China and was about to show his strength in the business world, met someone and changed the direction of his life.
Back then, Liu Guangdian met Hong Guoshi, who is also a fellow Northeastern fellow.
In Liu Guangdian's view, Hong Guoshi is a "big brother" who has made progress in thought and is just and brave. What Liu didn't know was that Hong Guoshi was an old party member who devoted himself to the revolution in 1938. At that time, he was responsible for intelligence collection and underground personnel development training in Northeast China.
Through continuous interactions, Hong Guoshi gradually noticed Liu Guangdian.
At this time, Liu Guangdian was already well-known in the Northeast region. He not only mastered a large number of political and business resources, but also mastered foreign languages from both countries. He was an extremely scarce talent within the party at that time.
The most important thing is that Liu Guangdian has a righteous heart and a pure and loyal heart.Therefore, Hong Guoshi decided to develop Liu Guangdian as our underground intelligence personnel.
After repeated in-depth discussions, Liu Guangdian gradually accepted and recognized the political propositions of our party.
Seeing that the time is ripe, Hong Guoshi also formally introduced Liu Guangdian to join the Dalian Intelligence Department of the Northeast Social Ministry in 1947. But in 1947, this was one of the most difficult periods of our party and our army, and it was the deepest darkness before dawn.
At that time, it was in the early stage of the Liberation War. After the comprehensive attack and key attack of the Kuomintang army, our army suffered heavy losses, and northern Shaanxi and Shandong liberated areas were severely damaged. Our party is in extremely difficult times both military and economically.
As intelligence personnel, Hong Guoshi and Liu Guangdian's mission at that time was to go to Shanghai to establish a company and build it into an intelligence hub for our party in Shanghai. , but because of the shortage of money, this matter is progressing very slowly.
Seeing that the intelligence work was weak, our army suffered repeated setbacks in civil war . Liu Guangdian readily handed over all his years of savings, namely one thousand dollars and ten taels of gold, to the organization.
Now, many literary and film and television works reflect the preciousness of the US dollar and gold in the late Republic of China, and are often regarded as a symbol of wealth by dignitaries. It can be seen how important Liu Guangdian’s donation at that time had to the organization, and it can be seen that Liu Guangdian’s belief and determination for the cause of democratic revolution.
1948, Liu Guangdian was absorbed by the organization as a special party member.
Liu Guangdian's contribution to our party is not limited to material assistance. With his intelligence, Liu Guangdian has made significant contributions to the final victory of our party and our army in intelligence positions many times.
For example, during the Liaoshen Campaign and the Pingjin Campaign, Liu Guangdian went to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Dalian and other places many times to carry out intelligence exchange and transfer of patriotic democratic figures, and was commended by superiors.
With the successive victory of the three major battles and the Crossing the River Battle , Chiang Kai-shek's group gradually retreated to Taiwan Island . In order to unify China, the organization also began to plan and cultivate our party's local intelligence network in Taiwan.
With the excellent execution of multiple previous tasks, Liu Guangdian was appointed by his superiors to go to Baodao to continue to promote intelligence work. He went to the tiger's den and Dragon Pond, and embarked on a "death journey".
went through fire and water to trap Longtan, sacrificed his life to be righteous and uphold the reputation
In June 1949, Liu Guangdian, inspired by the organization, left home and arrived in Hong Kong for 4 months.
At that time, Liu Guangdian had just moved his home from Shenyang to Pei Ping due to intelligence work.
Although he was full of endless longing and guilt for his family, Liu Guangdian resolutely embarked on his journey to Taiwan for the sake of the future of the country and national justice.
Liu Guangdian is still working with his "old boss" Hong Guostyle in Taiwan.
is responsible for collecting, summarizing and processing various intelligence. Liu Guangdian uses business exchanges between Hong Kong and Taiwan as a cover to serve as a traffic officer to properly transfer the information collected by the comrades to our party’s contact person in Hong Kong.
Due to the failure of Kinmen Battle , our army attaches great importance to the hydrology and military deployment in the Taiwan-Penglish region, which is also the main working direction of the Hong Guo-style team.
And the "strong alliance" between Hong Guoshi and Liu Guangdian did not disappoint the organization and the people.
One month after arriving on Taiwan Island, Liu Guangdian performed his mission and successfully brought back important information to our army such as the deployment of the Kuomintang in Taiwan's three armies, the meteorological communication password of Taiwan, the timetable of rising and retreating in Taiwan, the communication password of the two important ports Kaohsiung , and the communication password of Keelung .
These intelligences were the strategic intelligence that our army urgently needed at the time. Su Yu, the commander-in-chief of our army's attack on Taiwan, gave a high evaluation of this information.
At that time, the Party Central Committee and the Taiwan Attack Command also determined the strategic concept of the People's Liberation Army to cross the strait in 1950 and liberate Taiwan Island.
In order to further collect intelligence and to instigate the military in Taiwan as much as possible, Liu Guangdian was ordered to go to Taiwan secretly again in January 1950.
Just as our party’s underground workers in Taiwan were excited about the reunification of the motherland, Two accidents disrupted everyone’s plans:
One is The Seventh Fleet of the United States entered Taiwan Strait , splitting China in a rough way;
The second is that the underground organization in Taiwan was uprooted.
In fact, between 1949 and 1950, our party had a considerable underground intelligence organization in Taiwan.
Because of the popularity of film and television works such as " Lurking ", Yu Ze became the prototype. The revolutionary deeds of General Wu Shi, "Second Chief of Staff of the Ministry of National Defense" and martyrs who went to Taiwan are well known.
But in fact, our party is in Taiwan and there are many intelligence veins.
First of all, the most famous line is naturally the social department network of the East China Bureau where Wu Shi and Zhu Feng are located;
Secondly, it is the great traitor who will come later, Cai Xiaoqian as the secretary's network of the Taiwan Provincial Working Committee of the Communist Party of China;
Finally, it is the social department network of the Central Committee affiliated to Hong Guoshi and Liu Guangdian.
The networks rarely interact on weekdays, and most members do not know the information of other system personnel. This is to minimize the losses suffered by underground organizations due to intelligence leakage and traitor betrayal.
But this strategy suffered a major setback in Taiwan after 1949...
On the one hand, it was due to the rebellion of Cai Xiaoqian .
As the secretary of our party’s working committee in Taiwan, Cai Xiaoqian is the leader of the underground movement and party organization in the whole province of Taiwan.
Although he himself did not know the names of members of several other intelligence networks, he provided a large list of members of the party organization after his rebellion, which undoubtedly pointed out the direction for the Kuomintang's surveillance work and increased the risk of our personnel exposure.
Later statistics showed that there were more than 1,800 underground workers arrested for Cai Xiaoqian's rebellion. The death of Wu Shi, Zhu Feng and others was both due to the burden of worshipping Cai Xiaoqian.
On the other hand, it was Chiang Kai-shek who "learned his mistakes" in the field of intelligence after retreating to Taiwan.
During the entire Liberation War, the entire national military system was infiltrated into a "sieve" by our party, resulting in the military failure of the Chiang Kai-shek group in the mainland. After "little residence" in Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek vigorously appointed the spy chiefs of the former military commanders of the military commander of Zheng Jiemin, Mao Renfeng, Peng Mengji, Gu Zhengwen, Zhou Zhirou, etc., and decisively delegated power to indulge them in Taiwan for decades of "white terror".
According to the decrypted archives of Taiwan's pseudo-rule , during the "white terror" period, there were more than 100,000 political dissidents and democratic progressive people arrested, detained, imprisoned, and managed, and tens of thousands of people were brutally killed by the Taiwan authorities. The above situation of
objectively increases the difficulty of our party in carrying out intelligence work, and Liu Guangdian's sacrifice is related to it.
Although Hong Guoshi's team was not greatly affected by Cai Xiaoqian's rebellion, they were still discovered by the Kuomintang secret service agencies.
It turned out that in order to eliminate Hong Guo-style team, Taiwan's "security commander" Peng Mengji had already sent two confidants Yang Wenliang and Chen Qi to get into the underground organization. Hong Guoshi is devoted to collecting Taiwan military intelligence and neglecting the investigation of personnel, which leads to a big mistake.
In February 1950, Hong Guoshi was trapped at Taipei Railway Station.
At that time, the enemy's special attitude was very polite, saying that Hong Guoshi could provide several contact persons to prove his identity. In fact, this is a vicious plan that the Kuomintang enemy special forces came up with to lure Hong Guoshi to provide his companions.
As a "people from other provinces", Hong Guoshi naturally gives priority to providing relatively reliable organizational members, but he does not want to be the enemy's spies.
The spy chiefs immediately arrested relevant personnel based on the list of Hong Guoshi's "provided" and the Hong Guoshi team was completely exposed.
At this time, Liu Guangdian and liaison officer Wang Yaodong, who were still unaware of the situation, felt that the situation was wrong because they had not received organizational instructions for many days.
After hearing the news of Hong Guoshi's arrest, they immediately began to transfer and escape.
can be "white terror" open, with a small area and surrounded by the sea. Where can I escape from Taiwan Island?
At that time, the enemy's spies were mainly active in the economically developed northern regions such as Taipei and Taoyuan. In order to avoid the enemy's edge, Liu Guangdian and Wang Yaodong decided to hide in Tainan where "people from this province" gathered in Taiwan and searched for an opportunity to escape.
In this way, Liu Guangdian and Wang Yaodong began to live in the local area.
While still having some savings, Liu Guangdian and his group actively sought to use sea and air channels to return to the mainland of the motherland.
When money is gradually spent, Liu and Wang have to sleep in the open. On weekdays, they rely on weaving bamboo baskets and making gadgets to exchange for some daily necessities. This kind of life lasts for four years.
In February 1954, due to the betrayal of Tainan progressive Hu Canglin, the place where Liu and Wang hid in Tainan was exposed.
Kuomintang secret service convened thousands of people to search in the deep mountains in the south, and finally arrested Liu Guangdian and Wang Yaodong in the Gouping area at the junction of Tainan and Kaohsiung.
According to records from the Taiwan authorities, When Liu and Wang were arrested, their hair was messy and their clothes were tattered.
htmlFor more than 0 years, they have lived in a cave about one thousand meters above sea level in the mountains. The Kuomintang officials who are "greedy for life, fear of death, and love to be officials" cannot believe how the two of them lasted for four years in a small space with a hole of half a meter square, a cave with a length of more than 1 meter and a width of less than 2 meters.
Because Liu and Wang escaped for a long time and were shocked when they were discovered, the pseudo-in-the-scenes authorities even issued a brochure called "The Story of the Escape of a Bandit Spy Liu Guangdian" for this case. In this book, they described Liu and Wang digging ground into caves for four years, using wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy their hunger.
Although its original intention was to intimidate the people, anyone with discerning eyes could see the resolute qualities of Liu Guangdian and others from it.
According to many party history experts, the Taiwan authorities publish books for a "spy case", which is extremely rare in Taiwan's political history, and the degree of importance the Kuomintang attaches to this can also be seen from the side.
But why is Liu Guangdian's deeds and ending always shrouded in layers of fog, and has not been known to outsiders for 38 years?
is stigmatized and has no regrets. After running around for many years, it was later found that the obscurity of Liu Guangdian's deeds and the confusion of the Liu family about their father's whereabouts were actually caused by the conspiracy of the Chiang Kai-shek authorities.
It turns out that since Liu Guangdian was arrested in 1954, he has refused to cooperate with the Taiwan authorities and firmly abide by the beliefs and philosophy of a Communist Party member. For four years, I have been in the wilderness, and I will never surrender or give in. Can the hardships and torture alone destroy the will of a democratic fighter?
Later months, Liu Guangdian always "did not say a word" in prison. This style of rather than surrendering made Secret Bureau a headache. In order to pry Liu Guangdian's mouth open, the enemy spies implemented a "heart-killing plan."
They lied to the outside world that Liu Guangdian had rebelled and wrote a letter of repentance, and decided to "abandon the dark and turn to the light" and devote themselves to loyalty to Chiang Kai-shek.
The so-called "playing the whole set", The enemy soldiers even found someone Qiao Zhuangcheng Liu Guangdian, went to Hong Kong to publicly promote their reactionary propositions and make inappropriate remarks everywhere.
Their move is to make Liu Guangdian a "traitor" alive, hoping that Liu Guangdian, who realized that he might be abandoned by the organization, could accept the reality and take the initiative to confess.
But when the enemy spies held the newspaper "Liu Guangdian" that delivered a "submission to the enemy" speech in Hong Kong and looked at Liu Guangdian with a smile, all they waited for was disdain and a longer silence.
years later, in 1959, the patiently exhausted Taiwanese authorities secretly executed Liu Guangdian, who was only 37 years old at the time.
This man born among the white mountains and black waters uses his actions to fulfill his oath he had made with his fist.I just don’t know whether he had ever thought about his family in prison?
He may have forgotten, or he can't bear to think about what fate his family in Beijing will face in the future?
1954, Liu's wife Wang Sulian, who was both a father and a mother, worked hard to maintain this family in Beijing.
Since receiving the letter from her husband from Wuhan in 1949, the Liu family has never had any news about Liu Guangdian.
Wang Sulian reported the case to the public security department many times, but never received a reply.
Street officials and public security officers knocked on the door of the Liu family with serious expressions and told the Liu family that they were good and bad.
The good news is that the country has found Liu Guangdian, who currently lives in Taiwan;
The bad news is that Liu Guangdian was an underground worker of the party, but now he has betrayed the revolution and become a traitor.
But these two messages were like bolts from the blue, breaking the balance that Wang Sulian worked hard to maintain.
My husband and the father of my child have become enemies of the people, so how should I and my three children deal with it?
Soon, the family was forced to move from Qianliang Hutong to a small house in Wangdaren Hutong, Beixinqiao.
A year later, Wang Sulian, who was physically and mentally exhausted, unfortunately died of a heart attack.
A good family, now only a few children are left to survive and live a life of hundreds of families.
The children finally survived until they grew up, but given their father's identity as a "traitor", their lives were not going well.
Since then, the idea of exploring the truth and "reverse the case" for his father has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the Liu brothers and sisters.
However, due to the battle in 1950, our party's intelligence network losses in Taiwan were too serious, and both personnel and intelligence networks needed to be slowly established from scratch, and they had no ability to carefully verify the current status of the original members of the Taiwan organization.
Based on the principle of "never trust and be strict", the organization has to deal with this matter seriously. But fortunately, time is on the side of justice and truth.
With the implementation of the opening of the party ban in 1987, a large number of archives were declassified. The public first came into contact with details of the case organized by our party underground during the White Terror period.
For example, in 1991, Taiwanese writer Li Ao published the book "Compilation of Confidential Documents of the Security Bureau", which records in detail the details and endings of the Liu Guangdian case.
At the same time, the jailer of the Yuanguo Army who had met Liu Guangdian several times in prison also began to publish articles to recall the time he spent with Liu Guangdian.
For example, in the 6th issue of Book City magazine in 2016, it published a memoir of the former Kuomintang soldier Zhang Jialin taking care of Liu Guangdian.
But the most decisive evidence material is the precious material brought back by an old Taiwanese underground party member in 1988 when he returned to the mainland of his motherland.
This old comrade was arrested and imprisoned for more than ten years because of his first battle in 1950, but he has never forgotten his original intention and has been actively looking for the whereabouts of his comrades in Taiwan that year after he was released from prison.
After years of hard work, he finally made a heavy list.
On this list, there are more than 100 heroes who died on Taiwan Island. The record of "Liu Guangdian, Lushun native" is on the list.
1991, after years of data collection and organization of Liu Yuping, the son of Liu Guangdian, over the years, was finally confirmed that Liu Guangdian did not rebel, and many years of unjust cases were finally rehabilitated!
Justice will be late, but will not always be absent.
Conclusion
In 2008, Liu Guangdian was posthumously considered a revolutionary martyr.
Relying on his legendary experience and firm revolutionary beliefs, Liu Guangdian is also known as the "Three Heroes" of Taiwan Island Red Agents, together with Wu Shi, Zhu Feng and others.
In 2013, the Unsung Heroes Memorial Square was built in Beijing Xishan Forest Park to commemorate underground workers who died on Taiwan Island from 49 to 50 years. Liu Guangdian's name also appeared on the memorial wall of the square.
This honor is the greatest affirmation of the martyr Liu Guangdian's persistence for many years!
