On October 1, 1950, National Day came as scheduled, and people were immersed in a festive atmosphere. No one knew that just a few days ago, the Ministry of Public Security cracked a "top secret operation" planned by US imperialism.
At the same time, because this case is too horrifying, it has been sealed in the archives. Few people know about this sensational "action".
It was not until 54 years later, in 2004 that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decrypted the relevant archives of the case, and people only realized that on the eve of National Day 54 years ago, a shocking spy case occurred.
In 1950, there were many foreigners stranded in China, including many US-Chiang spies hidden. They were rampant in their activities, secretly collecting information from our country and sending it to the US empire.
For this reason, the Ministry of Public Security has set up a special working group, mainly responsible for counter-espionage business, led by Minister Luo Ruiqing and Deputy Minister Yang Qiqing.
As the first National Day after the founding of New China approaches, the anti-espionage work has become increasingly tense, and the staff have all raised their spirits. In everyone's eyes, the enemy spies will definitely cause damage on this day.
And as the staff thought, the enemy's special forces have taken action at this time.
They are Italian Anton Li. After graduating from the Italian Air Force School in 1919, he came to China and opened an arms company called "Italya" in Tianjin and became an arms businessman.
In 1922, Anton Li joined the Italian fascist camp and then organized a fascist party branch in our country and served as the branch secretary. Since 1933, he has collected confidential information from our country everywhere in the name of a reporter and provided it to Japan, an ally of the fascist camp.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Anton Lee was arrested by the Kuomintang, but was not punished in the end because the United States was trying hard to protect Anton Lee behind his back and wanted him to work for the US intelligence department.
In 1947, as soon as Li Andong was released from prison, he learned that his "savior" was the United States. Because the then US ambassador to China and the extremely anti-communist Bao Ruide went to visit Lee Andong in person.
Li Andong
As a fascist party member of the defeated country, he was personally visited by the military officers of the victorious country in China. This is something that Li Andong dared not imagine. He was full of gratitude and since then he worked hard for the United States.
After the founding of New China, all the US official institutions and organizations were evacuated, but Anton Lee did not leave. Instead, he stayed in New China under the order of Bao Ruide and stole my country's intelligence.
Japanese Yamaguchi Takaichi , the intelligence officer of Lee Andong's development . He was originally a Japanese spy. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, he collected information from ships in the coastal areas of North China and our party's anti-Japanese guerrillas and provided them to the Japanese and puppets.
After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Yamaguchi joined the US Strategic Intelligence Agency in Pei and acted as a spy on the US government. At the same time, he also worked for the Kuomintang. After the founding of New China, Yamaguchi Takaichi lurked in New China as the editor of the Chinese Department of the French Library.
Later, with the introduction of Wei Zhi, the owner of the French library, Yamaguchi Takaichi and Lee Anton met. Since both of them were spies and both worked for the US intelligence department, Yamaguchi Takaichi naturally became Lee Anton's intelligence officer.
In addition, there are Japanese spy Gao Fuming , French spy Wei Zhi Henry, Italian bishop Madieu, Zheli and German Ganas, and formed a spy team with Lee Andong and Yamaguchi Takaichi to spy on and collect information about my country's economic, political, military and other information.
At that time, as the National Day approached, the spy team led by Andong Li decided to destroy my country's National Day. They planned to use 82 mortars to bombard Tiananmen at the beginning of the National Day in New China! After
decided the plan, Lee Andong and others reported the plan report to the United States through their intelligence channels, and the plan was quickly approved.
After this, the secret service team began to prepare, and for them, the most important thing was to require a topographic map around Tiananmen Square. In order not to attract attention, Lee Andong specially asked Yamaguchi Takaichi to complete the map drawing plan, and as for the others, they prepared weapons and other required items.
But what Li Andong and others don’t know is that they have long been targeted by comrades from the Counter-Espionage Special Working Group. Since the anti-espionage work began, the comrades in the working group have begun to investigate.
Then, with the help of Xu Shengwu, a Japanese professor at Beijing Arts College who has rich experience in counter-espionage, the staff quickly focused their attention on an agency located in Beijing - US News Office .
Li Andong
According to my scout's squatting observation, the special team first took Andong Li, who often went to and from the "U.S. News Office" into his sight. Soon, Yamaguchi Takaichi and others who were closely connected with Lee Andong also entered the sight of the special team. In their follow-up investigation, the special team staff found that their behavior was particularly suspicious.
staff found that every weekend, Anton Lee would always invite some foreign personnel stationed in China to hold a dance at home. No matter how other foreigners at the banquet changed, Takaichi Yamaguchi, Takaichi and others were always present, as if Anton Lee invited others just to cover Yamaguchi Takaichi and others.
At the same time, the staff also found that another observer Yamaguchi Takashi would not go home first after work, but would go from the opposite direction of his home to Xingguo Road, then walk to a gate of the south end of Xingguo Road, and then walk up the wall from the stairs on the west side of the city gate to the city wall.
Every time, Yamaguchi Takaichi went out more than 100 meters on the city wall, he would stop, then look around for a while, and then continue to walk along the sheep-intestinal path on the city wall. seemed to be looking for something, and seemed to be observing the terrain.
Then, Yamaguchi Takaichi will leave the city wall and walk towards Tiananmen Gate. On the way to Tiananmen Square, always sees Lee Andong, and Yamaguchi Takaichi would come forward to talk to him in foreign language, and then separate from each other.
Then Yamaguchi Takaichi continued to go west and walked to the gate of Zhongshan Park. At this time, he would take out his notebook and look at Tiananmen Square. He didn't know what to write on the notebook. After a while, he was demoted from Jinshuihe and transferred to the Palace of Workers' Cultural Heritage, and watched Tiananmen Square again, and continued to take out the notebook to write and draw.
scouts quickly reported these situations. Cao Chunzhi, the head of the reconnaissance department, realized sensitively that Li Andong held a dance party very likely to be for exchanging information, while Yamaguchi's behavior was very likely to be drawing a topographic map of Tiananmen Square. Li Andong and others must be conspiring to a huge conspiracy!
Cao Chunzhi said to other staff with a serious expression: "They must be planning a major action, but unfortunately they cannot understand the content of their specific planning, and they have not caught their handle. But at least it is certain that this group of people belongs to a spy organization. We must solve the case quickly, otherwise the consequences will be serious!"
Counter-espionage special team immediately stepped up the follow-up investigation of Li Andong and others, and as the work of the special team deepened, a major breakthrough was finally made.
On the afternoon of September 1950, scouts found that a woman in her 20s and student-like came to find Zheli, and the two of them communicated in foreign languages for about 15 minutes.
After investigation, the scout found that the woman was named Cheng Meng, who was an assistant teacher in the music department of Peking University. Before the liberation of Beijing, Cheng Meng once learned piano with Zheli's wife Horvat Imina. After the liberation of Peking, Imina followed, and the extremely anti-communist Bao Ruide mentioned above went to Taiwan.
During the investigation, the scout found that Cheng Meng's family had a temporary household registration, which was her eldest sister named Cheng Na. Her husband was a British man. Before the liberation of Peking, she had dated Bao Ruide . She came to Beijing from Hong Kong to visit relatives this time.
But considering Cheng Na's husband, he had contact with Bao Ruide, and he also thought of the relationship between Imina and Bao Ruide. At the same time, Cheng Meng went to find Zheli when Cheng Na came back, which made the scouts think of: Cheng Na returned from Hong Kong at this time, which was related to the imperialist spy case they were reconnaissance.
So, we decided to conduct a secret check on Cheng Na. Cheng Na naturally refused to undergo the inspection, but the scout found half of Bao Ruide's business card in her cosmetic box.
Seeing the scout's serious expression, Cheng Na was also panicked. She said that she and Bao Ruide were friends. In addition to visiting her parents this time, she was also entrusted by Bao Ruide to use half a business card as a voucher to ask Zheli to help sell the piano where Imina exists in her sister. If you don't believe it, you can ask her sister because she has asked her sister to contact Zheli.
scout looked at Cheng Na's white face, with a panicked and at a loss. In addition, she said that her sister had contacted Zheli, which was consistent with the previous observation of Cheng Meng and Zheli's conversation. The scout believed that Cheng Na should not have lie, but Bao Ruide asked Cheng Na to give her business card was also true.
Since this is the case, there is only one possibility that Cheng Na has been exploited. scout said to Cheng Na sternly: Bao Ruide is a spy, you have been exploited by Bao Ruide, and you are still kept in the dark!
Cheng Na was even more panicked. Bao Ruide made her commit a crime unknowingly. What should I do? At this time, the scout told her not to panic. As long as she reports to the government in time and helps the government, she will be pardoned and she can become a person who has made contributions to the country. Cheng Na immediately agreed excitedly and found her sister Cheng Meng. After work, Cheng Meng was willing to work for the motherland.
Yamaguchi Takaichi
Then, under the arrangement of the scout, Cheng Na and Zheli connected. After Zheli got the business card, they immediately drove to Li Andong's house. When Li Andong looked at the business card, he immediately realized that Bao Ruid issued an action order to them. Then he notified Yamaguchi Takaichi and asked Yamaguchi to contact the US Allied Command in Tokyo immediately.
Yamaguchi Takaichi immediately came to Dongjiaomin Lane , an Iraqi woman selling smoked fish, and handed her an envelope and asked her to mail it on her behalf. Whether it is Yamaguchi or this Iraqi woman, they are under the surveillance of the scouts at this time.
On September 26, 1950, an Iraqi woman came to Dongdan International Post Office early in the morning to handle air express delivery. As soon as she finished the processing, the email was intercepted by the scout.
Everyone opened the letter and saw that it read: "CLC headquarters, the firefighter purchased will be shipped on October 1st. Everything goes well! I would like to extend my warm greetings!" The signature was Yamaguchi Takaichi.
map of Tiananmen Square drawn by spies
In addition, there is also a topographic map of Tiananmen Square and the square drawn with pencil, and there is also a clearly visible parabola on the sketch that points directly to the Tiananmen Square Tower.
Everyone passed on this letter together. It seemed that there was no problem just looking at the text, but when they looked at the topographic map, everyone immediately understood that this group of spies planned to carry out sabotage activities in front of the Tiananmen Gate Tower on National Day. You must know that all the important leaders of our party will appear on that day...
Everyone dared not think about it anymore, and Cao Chunzhi, the chief of the reconnaissance department, immediately reported the emergency situation. The Ministry of Public Security felt that the matter was of great importance. Yang Qiqing immediately gathered outstanding scouts from Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and Shenzhou to the Ministry of Public Security to participate in solving the case together, and was determined to fight an annihilation battle before National Day!
Yang Qiqing
On September 27, Li Guoxiang, director of the Investigation Department, quickly issued an operational order. All personnel were divided into four groups, one group arrested Li Andong; the second group arrested Yamaguchi Takaichi; the third group arrested Ganas; the fourth group arrested Zheli and others.
The team members who performed the arrest mission quickly acted separately. The first one was Ganas, followed by Yamaguchi Takaichi, who was protested at that time; then Takaichi Takaichi, and finally Lee Andong. Lee Andong forced himself to calm down and wanted to deny it, but seeing that it was useless, he had to follow the police helplessly.
Scouts searched Li Andong's study, bedroom and living room and found a large number of documents, many of which were intelligence information about military, political, economic and other aspects of the Liberated Area, and some of them were also attached with the names of our party leaders on it.
In addition, the scout also found a large amount of metal in Li Andong's residence. After assembling it, it turned out to be a small mortar. In addition, two pistols, 68 grenades, more than 650 shells and various bullets, and two poisons were found!
The spy was arrested on the scene
Although Li Andong and others said that they did not engage in espionage, in the face of conclusive evidence, Li Andong and others had to admit what they did. And they indeed planned to bombard Tiananmen Square on National Day as the scouts analyzed.
After learning about the bad behavior of Lee Andong and others, the scouts were all furious. After several months of trial, finally in 1951, the Military Law Department of the Beijing Municipal Military Control Commission made a judgment on the case: the main culprits of , Li Andong and Yamaguchi Takaichi were sentenced to death penalty in accordance with the law, while the others were sentenced to life imprisonment and fixed-term imprisonment respectively, and were deported after the sentence was over. After the verdict of the case, Li Andong and Yamaguchi Takaichi were immediately taken to the execution ground. With two crisp gunshots, Li Andong and Yamaguchi Takaichi ended their sinful lives.
spy arrest scene
This case is a sensational counter-espionage case in New China, not only because it is an extremely bad incident involving spies from multiple countries, but also because of the verdict in this case.
You should know that imperialists once violated the law in China, and China had no choice but to do anything about it. Now, no matter who you are, you must accept legal sanctions if you violate the law. This is a specific manifestation of the Chinese people's stand up and another huge victory for the Chinese people!
