As soon as the founding of the People's Republic of China, ** was ready to visit the Soviet Union at the end of 1949 for the sake of the country's strategic security and national interests, and to hold talks with Stalin.
**Stalin.
**This trip can be described as risking your life. Why?
Because the War of Liberation had not yet ended at that time, there were not only reactionary troops in the country who resisted stubbornly, but also a large number of puppet Chiang enemies who were sabotaging everywhere.
On May 4, 1949, Kuomintang planes also bombed Nanyuan Airport in Beijing, and ***, who had just entered Beijing, happened to be temporarily living in Xiangshan, 40 kilometers away.
In short, the situation of the struggle in the country is extremely complicated.
**The special train will depart from Beijing and will take 3 days and 3 nights to reach Manchuria on the Sino-Soviet border. This long railway line will undoubtedly be a "great opportunity" for the enemy to try to find out of the way.
Manzhouli National Gate Scenic Area.
In mid-November, just after the date for his visit to the Soviet Union was confirmed, the surveillance department of the Ministry of Public Security intercepted a secret telegram sent by a hidden Kuomintang agent from Beijing about his trip.
**After hearing the report on the matter, immediately give instructions to the Ministry of Public Security:Suppress him before I return home!
On the evening of December 6, ** took a special train from Beijing as originally planned.
At the same time, major progress has also been made in the detection of enemy special radio stations, but what everyone never expected was that the enemy's conspiracy against *** was far more than this.
So, how will our public security department defeat the cunning enemy for the sake of *** security?
After Chiang Kai-shek ran to Taiwan, Mao Renfeng continued to be the head of his secret service bureau. In mid-November 1949, Taiwan's Secret Bureau obtained confidential information about his upcoming visit to the Soviet Union. Chiang Kai-shek knew the great significance of this Sino-Soviet giant meeting, so he strictly ordered Mao Renfeng to do everything possible to assassinate ***
Hairy Phoenix. On this visit, ** took a special train to the Soviet Union, so the assassination location chosen by Mao Renfeng was along the railway line of the special train. Subsequently, he began to give orders to the "elite" of spies lurking on the mainland.
According to Xiao Bin, the wife of Yang Qiqing, then vice minister of public security, recalled: "Just ten days before *** was ready to leave (the planned departure date was December 6), that is, in mid-to-late November, a Kuomintang radio station lurking in Beijing suddenly appeared and became active. **Order to solve the case within a time limit".
This order was personally issued by *** to the Ministry of Public Security, and at the same time, ** demanded that these enemy counter-revolutionaries be suppressed before he returned to China at the end of February of the following year.
Time is tight, the task is heavy, and the clues to solve the case must be sorted out as soon as possible.
Yang Qiqing, who was in charge of the case, quickly dispatched elite soldiers and strong generals to form a "radio task force," and at the same time demanded that the task force report on the progress of the investigation work every day.
Yang Qiqing. At that time, the Ministry of Public Security only had a few clues intercepted by the Taiwan Secrecy Bureau ordering the hidden agent to assassinate *** and the code name of "0409", a spy lurking in Beijing.
How can the huge city of Beijing find this spy?
The comrades of the special case group have a wealth of experience in the anti-special struggle and soon found a breakthrough: money!
Why money?
Because the activities of spies all require funds, and according to experience, these funds are generally remitted into China from overseas, and since the spies are hiding in Beijing, the bank where he collects money should also be in Beijing. After determining this breakthrough, the task force immediately conducted an emergency investigation of all banks in Beijing that were able to accept foreign exchange.
However, the results were disappointing, and the bank in Beijing did not find any leads.
Yang Qiqing fell into thought.
Will the enemy certainly collect money locally?
Probably not. Where would that be?
It is very likely to be in Tianjin, where the business is developed and the transportation is convenient!
Immediately, the task force contacted the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau to begin an emergency investigation. As expected, I found out that there were three suspicious payments from Hong Kong to Tianjin, and the payee was a ** company called "Xinqiao" in Beijing, and the withdrawal was signed by a woman named Ji Ailin.
However, the average spy will not show his head on his own, and this woman is most likely just a "glove".
The investigators found that Ji Ailin's real name was Ji Cainan, and she was a shareholder of Xinqiao Company.
Ji Cainan. Normal people who will have nothing to do with a pseudonym, there must be ghosts among them. As a result, the special group began to monitor and listen to Xinqiao Company and Ji Cainan.
The real anti-special agent requires a lot of patience, and the Kuomintang spies do not carry out joint contacts and activities every day. For many days, there was no abnormal movement in this Ji Cainan.
Isn't this clue right?
Just when the investigation was at an impasse, ** intercepted an important piece of information: Ji Cainan was going to hold a private banquet and invited a large number of guests.
Smoke grenades"!The task force judged that this was a "smoke bomb" of the spies, and used the banquet to cover their joint operations.
On the day of the banquet, the investigators closely followed and investigated all the guests of Ji Cainan, but they did not find anything unusual.
Could it be that the investigation is going in the wrong direction?
Could it be that this Ji Cainan is just an unscrupulous businessman?
On the evening of December 6, 1949, ** took a special train from Beijing Xizhimen Railway Station as planned, and Comrade Yang Qiqing was responsible for accompanying the security work. Therefore, the work of the "radio task force" was handed over to Li Kenong.
Li Kenong. In the face of the enemy's numerous conspiracies, the two veterans of the espionage front will do their best to protect the safety of the great leader in their respective posts in the following dozens of days.
In mid-November, Yang Qiqing, Minister of Public Security, First Vice Minister of Public Security, and Teng Daiyuan, Minister of Railways, had already reported the security plan on the way to the Ministry of Public Security, and it was approved.
These three leading comrades will form a leading group for the defense of the vehicleYang Qiqing is responsible for the security work, Teng Daiyuan is responsible for cooperating, and ** is in charge of the anti-rebellion work.
**The special train is codenamed "9002", and there are 4 other trains responsible for clearing the way and confusing the enemy. When the special train departs from Beijing, the leaders do not see them off, and the local leading cadres at each station are not allowed to pick up and drop off the station unless they are summoned.
All operators and service personnel on the train must go through strict political examination and be signed and approved by Comrade Teng Daiyuan before they can get on the train. Along the way, all trains make way for special trains. The more than 2,000-kilometer railway line between Beijing and Manzhouli Station on the Sino-Soviet border will be guarded by troops from three divisions, the Beijing Public Security Corps and the Railway Public Security Corps.
Teng Daiyuan. At half past 8 o'clock in the evening of December 6th, the pilot train departed from platform 2 of Beijing Xizhimen Railway Station in advance, and at 9 o'clock, the special train whistled and set off, with a total of 10 carriages in the special train, and the 7th train was taken. In the car, he humorously called the two comrades Yang Qiqing and Teng Daiyuan, who were in charge of security work, "Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong".
When the special train arrived at Tianjin Yangcun Station, the first accident happened.
The security personnel found a grenade on the next section of the tracks where the special train was traveling!
After inspection, the rusty grenade was only a failed bomb, but this still aroused Yang Qiqing's high vigilance. The railway lines have already been carefully checked, how can this suddenly happen?
After an urgent investigation, a "White Russian" saboteur who was working on the railway was captured, and at the same time, a bag of explosives that had just been laid by enemy agents was found on the pier of the Yangcun Bridge.
At this time, Li Kenong informed Yang Qiqing that the Ministry of Public Security had intercepted another important telegram, which showed that Taiwan's Secrecy Bureau had airdropped a high-ranking spy to the vicinity of Harbin, and that this spy would act as a special agent to supervise the local lurking enemy special forces to attack the special train with bombs in the Daxinganling Tunnel, the "throat of the Asia-Europe International Railway," which was more than 3,000 meters long.
The reactionaries were so excited that they even took the risk of throwing a special commissioner over, and on December 9, the special train of ** would arrive in Manchuria, and the time for the enemy's action would be in two days. The situation is already very urgent!
Yang Qiqing immediately arranged to use the "stupidest" method to solve it.
First, he arranged for the local public security forces in northeast China to strengthen patrols and vigilance at the Daxinganling Tunnel and other important locations along the line.
Second, mobilize the strength of the masses of the people, combine the military and the people, and always keep an eye on this big spy who is about to fall from the sky.
Will such a "stupid" method of mobilizing the crowd work?
In the early morning of 7 December, a Kuomintang transport plane secretly flew into the territory of our country and "laid an egg" in the sky near Harbin. Zhang Daping, a special commissioner of the Kuomintang Secret Bureau, floated to the snowy ground with a nervous mood.
The power of the masses of the people is unlimited.
Although our army's air defense at that time was very weak, it was impossible to intercept the spy planes. However, there was no GPS positioning equipment at that time, and when the Kuomintang plane threw spies, it could only choose to fly at low altitude, so as not to throw it in the wrong place and delay things.
In this way, when the plane is flying at low altitude, the rumbling of the engine is sure to be heard on the ground. As a result, the people who were waiting for the battle discovered this "egg".
Zhang Daping didn't go far after landing on the ground, and he was covered by the flashlight of the militia and public security soldiers. After an overnight surprise interrogation, Zhang Daping honestly explained his mission and the specific location and contact information of the spy gang near Harbin.
Early in the morning of 7 December, in a hotel in Harbin, the head of the hidden spy was received by the "special commissioner." At the same time, the "commissioner" also commended him for his excellent work and emphasized to him the complexity and importance of the assassination. Subsequently, the head of the special service happily gave a briefing on the local secret service organization and presented a list of those who had participated in the operation.
The evidence of the crime was conclusive, and the public security officers rushed in, arrested the spy leader and several entourage, and then cast a net against the gang.
On the same day, more than 170 members of this spy gang were arrested.
On 8 December, while patrolling, police fighters spotted the last two suspicious elements of the gang along the railway line near the Daxinganling tunnel.
The two reactionaries were planting explosives under the railroad tracks through which the special train was going to pass. The police officers felt that they were very suspicious and immediately opened fire to warn them, and when the two men saw that they had been discovered, they turned around and tried to run, but they were all killed. The explosives were also cleaned up in a timely manner. ** The train passed safely a few hours later.
The width of the railway tracks in the USSR was different from the standard gauges in our country. Therefore, on December 9, when the special train arrived safely in Manchuria on the Sino-Soviet border, it was necessary to transfer to the special train prepared by the Soviet side to Moscow.
On the same day, Molotov, deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the CPSU, led a group of dignitaries and honor guards to hold a brief but solemn welcoming ceremony for *** at the station.
Molotov. Subsequently, Yang Qiqing and Teng Daiyuan waved goodbye to *** who boarded the Soviet special train on the platform.
**After entering the territory of the Soviet Union, the security was very guaranteed, Yang Qiqing finally breathed a sigh of relief, but he immediately turned his attention to the unsolved "radio case" again.
So, what new progress will Li Kenong make on the same side?
On Beijing's side, Li Kenong specially mobilized a number of radio direction finders to roughly locate the enemy's latent radio stations.
Combined with the information of those who attended Ji Cainan's banquet last time, the task force finally discovered a suspicious element.
This person's name is Ji Xu, he also attended the banquet that day, he is Ji Cainan's younger brother, an unemployed vagrant, who lives in Doujiao Hutong near the Drum Tower. The approximate location of the enemy latent radio station measured this time is near Doujiao Hutong.
Ji Xu. One morning, while Ji Xu was out, investigators disguised themselves as electricians to check his home's electricity meter and found that the electricity consumption was significantly higher than the amount of normal users.
So how do you prove that Ji Xu has a latent radio station?
The experienced task force has its own tricks.
Ji Xu's next-door neighbor is an old policeman surnamed Zheng, and after the investigators fought for him, he was willing to cooperate with the investigation work, how to cooperate?
Very simple. It was a small light bulb installed on the courtyard wall of his house near Ji Xu's house. If Ji Xu uses the radio to send the report, then the current will be interfered with, and this small bulb will flicker on and off.
This trick really worked, and after a while, late one night, the radio direction finder of the public security department detected the radio signal near Ji Xu's house, and at the same time intercepted a secret message. In the secret telegram, the Kuomintang Secrecy Bureau notified "0409" that he was asked to receive 20 taels of ** from a trading company in the name of "Wu Guangyu".
At this time, the light bulb of the old police house flashed continuously. And the next day, the task force learned through ** monitoring that this Ji Xu really asked the trading company for gold bars as "Wu Guangyu".
Now, Ji Xu is "0409" can be basically determined, but there is no detailed information about him in the household registration information of the local police station, so where did this spy come from?
After receiving the report, Li Kenong remembered that during the peaceful liberation of Beiping, our army had seized a batch of personnel information on the Kuomintang military and police officers, and then immediately notified the special case group to conduct a careful verification of this batch of materials.
In the end, it was found that there was a "top student" named Ji Zhaoxiang in the list of the last batch of graduates of the Beiping spy training class. It just so happened that several of his classmates were locked up in prison, so the task force let these people see Ji Xu's **, and sure enough, this Ji Xu was Ji Zhaoxiang!
At this point, all the clues were cleared, the evidence was conclusive, and the arrest operation began immediately.
On February 17, 1950, ** boarded a special Soviet train with the results of the negotiations and began to return home. On February 26, a special Soviet train arrived in Manchuria. Wang Dongxing recalled: "On the platform that day, I talked and laughed with comrades such as Yang Qiqing and Teng Daiyuan who came to greet me, and I relaxed a lot mentally. ”
**。It was also on this day that the task force raided Ji Zhaoxiang's residence, not only arresting the spy, but also seizing a full set of tools for committing crimes, such as American-made radio stations, code books, and pistols. Subsequently, his sister Ji Cainan and more than 10 other members of the spy gang were all arrested.
On the morning of March 4, after interrogation, this Ji Zhaoxiang confessed all the crimes: he began to lurk in January 1949, and successively sent more than 200 secret telegrams, totaling more than 30,000 words, and it was through his intelligence that the Kuomintang planes bombed Nanyuan Airport on May 4, and the target at that time was ***
In this regard, Yang Qiqing, Li Kenong and other cadres defending the front did not live up to the great trust of the first and victoriously completed the important task of "suppressing the counterrevolution" assigned by the old man.
On the evening of March 4, the ** special train safely entered Beijing Xizhimen Railway Station.
Facts have proved that in the face of the red bronze wall composed of the public security fighters of New China, any conspiracy attempt by the puppet Chiang gang is bound to end in failure!