In 1955, someone submitted an investigation report to ***, and the subject of the investigation was an old underground party member named Pan Hannian. After reading the report, the chairman was furious for a moment and bluntly said that this person could no longer be trusted. What did Pan do to make the chairman make such an assessment?
At the age of 19, Pan Hannian began to follow the party organization, participated in the agrarian revolution, fought bloody battles with the enemy in the Soviet area, and walked a long way, on the way, he was almost killed by disease. In 1936, he was appointed by the party organization to contact the Kuomintang as a representative of the CCP, and after many rounds of arduous negotiations, he finally prompted the KMT and the CCP to call off the army and make peace, and unanimously resist the invaders. During the Anti-Japanese War, he was appointed by the first party and was widely active in East China and South China, mainly engaged in intelligence gathering, and was awarded several times for his merits.
When the time came to 1939, several traitors took the initiative to contact Pan Hannian in order to leave a way back for themselves. After careful consideration, the party organization felt that it was possible to obtain key information by contacting these traitors, so it instructed Pan to respond to the traitors, but he should pay attention to keeping his distance and not rush forward. At first, the plan went well, Pan Hannian got along well with the traitors, and got a lot of information from the other party, and also received 2 batches of supplies by the way.
After tasting the sweetness, he was about to deepen his contacts with the other party, but unexpectedly, the situation in East China suddenly changed, and he had to withdraw from his original station in order to protect himself, and thus lost contact with the traitors. When he settled down again and wanted to reconnect with the traitor, the other party uncharacteristically proposed that he go to Shanghai. Pan Hannian knew that the other party had bad intentions, but he decided to take risks for the sake of the revolution and personally went to the ten-mile foreign field to see what tricks the other party was playing.
After arriving in Shanghai, Pan Hannian successfully met the traitor Hu, and the two talked happily, and then he asked to see Hu's boss Li, but Hu said that Li was in Nanjing. Pan hesitated, after all, Nanjing is now the enemy's "base camp", and if he rushes forward, he may be in danger. After some careful consideration, Pan Hannian still decided to risk his life, after all, once successful, the benefits are very many. But he never expected that not long after he arrived in Nanjing, Wang Jingwei took the initiative to come to the door and said that he wanted him to "chat". Only then did he realize that he had been tricked, but now that he was on someone else's territory, he could only let it go if he wanted to protect himself, so he could only talk to Wang hard.
Wang is trying his best to win him over, and has been "painting a big pie" for him, he naturally doesn't believe these nonsense, and has been perfunctory Wang Jingwei. Afterwards, the other party did not embarrass him, and generously let him leave Nanjing. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, and instead rushed all the way to the base of the New Fourth Army, intending to report the matter to the party committee. However, as soon as he arrived at the base area, he heard that the party committee was "rectifying the work style" and arrested many people one after another.
This made him very shocked, and after thinking about it, he decided to hide the matter and not report it to the party committee. In 1945, Wang Pseudo announced the news of his meeting with Pan Hannian, Pan was shocked after hearing the news, he was thinking about whether to tell the truth, but unexpectedly, the Organization Department directly issued a document to refute Wang Pseudo, saying that the other party created false news, and Pan Hannian would never do anything about a private meeting with a traitor. ** Also comforted Pan not to be disturbed by rumors, the party organization never doubted him.
Seeing this, Pan simply hid the matter again, and did not tell anyone, thinking that with the passage of time, the matter would be slowly forgotten, and no one would mention it again. Unexpectedly, in 1955, a new round of "rectification" began within the party around the movement of criticizing high schools and criticizing Rao, and many old things were dug up and treated as typical and serious. Pan Hannian was greatly shocked, and after thinking about it, he decided to take the initiative to confess to the party organization in order to strive for leniency.
Soon after, the order was given to arrest Pan, and Pan did not resist and accepted everything calmly. In 1962, he was put on trial, and the judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison. In 1967, he was transferred to a farm in Hunan**, and it was not until 1977 that he was taken back to Beijing for recuperation, and this has been 22 years. At this time, he was already seriously ill, and he knew that his time was short, so he explained his last words to his wife one by one, and told her to live well in the future and not lose hope for the future because of a temporary setback. But unfortunately, after his death, his wife suffered a serious mental blow, and eventually became ill and died in 1978.
In 1982, after re-examining his case, the party organization determined that he had not made any major mistakes, so they restored his reputation and gave him preferential care for his children in accordance with relevant regulations. It is worth mentioning that the reason why ** was angry with him was not because he went to see Wang Jingwei, but because he acted without asking his superiors, and he also concealed his superiors, which is a serious violation of discipline and should be dealt with seriously!