A suspiciously looking foreign man tries to leave the country with two rats. This behavior is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people, and it is very strange.
When security personnel found the two anomalous rats at Baiyun International Airport, they immediately reported them to Guangzhou Customs and the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. This has aroused great attention from the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau and launched an in-depth investigation.
These two seemingly insignificant mice, but the secrets behind them are shocking. At the same time, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, although China has gradually moved toward prosperity in all aspects, there are still some lawless elements who try to undermine China's peace and stability.
They use all kinds of means in a vain attempt to steal our country's confidential information. However, 50 years ago at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, a well-planned espionage case was successfully revealed.
In 1967, Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport was crowded with people, and in order to ensure the safety of every passenger, security personnel meticulously checked the luggage of every passenger.
During this time, a security officer named Lin Hua discovered a surprising thing when he checked the suitcase of a foreign passenger. It turned out that the blonde and blue-eyed foreign man was carrying a pitch-black suitcase in addition to other luggage that needed to be checked by plane.
Out of a sense of responsibility, Lin Hua stopped the foreign man and asked him to open the box for inspection. After the foreign man was stopped, he was stunned at first, but the panic on his face was fleeting, he quickly regained his composure, and said with a smile in broken Chinese: "This is my pet, so I don't need to check it!" ”
Although the man had regained his composure, he was still watched by the attentive Lin Hua. Lin Hua was a little puzzled in his heart, but he still replied very calmly on the surface: "This is a rule, all boxes must be inspected, this is for your safety." ”
Seeing that Lin Hua insisted on looking at his box, the man couldn't object anymore, so he gently put the box in his hand on the ground and opened the lockbox.
Lin Hua is mentally prepared to welcome a kitten and a puppy, but he can be a man"Pets"When he appeared, he was taken aback. It turned out that the man's box contained a small iron cage with two gray rats inside.
The two rats began to squeak as soon as they saw the light. Lin Hua didn't expect that the pets in the man's mouth would be these two mice, and the mental preparation he had made before collapsed instantly, and he was stunned in place.
However, he quickly reacted, and with years of experience, he found that the foreign man's behavior was suspicious. In China, rats are shunned, so how can they be treated as pets?
Even foreigners shouldn't be attracted to these two gray, dirty mice, right?With doubts, Lin Hua realized that things were not simple, and he didn't dare to let this person go easily.
However, at that time, the airport did not have special requirements for the transport of live animals, and they could not detain the man. In a hurry, Lin Hua inquired about the identity of the foreign man.
Lin Hua met a man named George Watt at the airport, who claimed to have a great interest in Chinese rats and took two rats with him to study.
Although Watt's explanation seemed reasonable, Lin Hua suspected that he might be lying after observing his eyes. Lin Hua decided to leave Watt in the hospitality room at the airport to investigate and report the matter to the leadership.
However, the leadership did not take the matter to heart. Lin Hua still insisted on his idea and reported the matter to the Guangzhou Customs and Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The news caught the attention of the Minister of Public Security, Yang Qiqing, who sniffed out that Watt might be a spy and immediately ordered the staff to leave Watt at the airport for further instructions, and sent his right-hand man Zhang Wenqi to investigate the matter.
Zhang Wenqi, a public security investigation expert born in the 30s of the last century, once studied at the Beijing Municipal People's Public Security School after the founding of New China, so he was proficient in various investigation techniques.
He has made countless miraculous achievements, including the detection of many cases such as the "case of Japanese spy Yoshiko Nakajima lurking in Qian Xuesen's house" and the espionage case of the United States and France. Therefore, everyone is full of expectations for his re-participation in the detection of this case.
However, when Zhang Wenqi took over the case, he made a surprising decision, which was to let the foreigner Watt leave. This move confused everyone, and everyone wondered why Zhang Wenqi made such a decision.
It turned out that the rats carrying radioactive materials led to American spies, which caused Zhang Wenqi to encounter one of the most bizarre incidents in his counterintelligence career. In 1967, Zhang Wenqi took over the case of two rats at Baiyun Airport in Guangzhou.
At that time, time was running out, and Watt, the foreigner who was carrying the two mice, had little patience. In order not to let this matter cause **, Zhang Wenqi decided to let Watt go.
Although this decision caused controversy at the time, it ultimately proved that Zhang Wenqi's decision was correct.
Zhang Wenqi's decision confused everyone, and he immediately explained: "Watt is British, and we have no reason to leave him at the airport." So we have to start somewhere else. ”
He ordered two rats to be replaced, using rats caught on the streets, and returned them to Watt. Watt carefully examined the rats, found nothing unusual, and happily boarded the plane to Hong Kong.
The test results of the Guangzhou Municipal Health and Quarantine Bureau showed that the two rats were artificially altered, and they both had different levels of radioactive materials stuck to their bodies, and the data of these radioactive materials were completely consistent with the radioactive data of the Northwest Nuclear Industry Production Base.
This clue caught the attention of Zhang Wenqi, and he decided to start the investigation with Watt's work.
In the course of the investigation, Zhang Wenqi gradually discovered many suspicious points in Watt. He is an equipment maintenance expert specially hired by Lanzhou Chemical Company from the United Kingdom, because a piece of equipment purchased from the United Kingdom ** broke down after less than a year of use, and had to ask the original factory to send maintenance personnel, and Watt is one of them.
Through Zhang Wenqi's field visits and investigations, he found that his colleagues spoke highly of Watt, and Watt got along well with his colleagues and was deeply liked by everyone. However, Watt's repair time seems to be too long, and in general, such equipment repairs should not be so tricky, and Watt has been in China for two months, during which time his wife has come to visit him.
This time, Watt offered to go on vacation to Hong Kong, but said at the airport that he would take the two rats back to the UK. Convinced that he was right to suspect Watt, Zhang decided to carry out another plan.
By the time Watt returned to Lanzhou, Zhang Wenqi had already taken the opportunity to study in the factory and successfully became a member of the company. He deliberately approached Watt in the hope of getting more clues from him.
Zhang Wenqi made full use of Watt's good image in the company, kept approaching Watt, and had close contacts with him, and Watt quickly let down his guard. In the communication with Watt, Zhang Wenqi found that Watt knew nothing about equipment maintenance, and there was no progress.
One day, when Zhang Wenqi was chatting with Watt, he suddenly asked, "Which state in the United States is Mr. Watt from?" Without thinking, Watt replied, "Californian." ”
This sentence surprised Zhang Wenqi, but he remained silent on the surface. He thought to himself: "He said that he was a Californian in the United States, which should be true, but his passport showed British nationality." ”
After thinking about it, Zhang Wenqi was convinced of Watt's identity, an American spy disguised as a maintenance expert. However, Zhang Wenqi did not immediately reveal Watt's true face, because the problem of the two rats has not been solved, what secrets did Watt want to steal from China?
What role do those two rats play in this?
Zhang Wenqi thought about it repeatedly and decided to gain Watt's trust again. Watt was unwary of Zhang Wenqi, and even took him with him wherever he went. At the beginning, Watt took Zhang Wenqi around to take pictures, and everything seemed very novel.
However, when they came to an open land, Watt continued to take pictures, and Zhang Wenqi realized that Watt might be stealing China's secrets in the name of taking pictures.
Not far from this open land is the site of China's first successful atomic bomb test in 1964. Combined with this, the radioactive material on the two rats before makes sense.
Watt's purpose is to obtain data and progress on China's nuclear tests by analyzing radioactive materials on rats. Cold sweat oozed from Zhang Wenqi's back, and the conspiracy of the United States was really insidious.
If it weren't for the conscientious and responsible security personnel at the airport, the secrets of China's atomic bomb might have fallen into the hands of the United States.
Zhang Wenqi immediately stopped Watt from continuing filming, and immediately reported the matter to Yang Qiqing after returning to the company. Yang Qiqing was taken aback by the report and immediately reported it to ***
** Decisive order: "This matter must be thoroughly investigated!" However, Zhang Wenqi believes that this is not the time to act, because they do not yet have sufficient evidence to arrest Watt.
Therefore, Zhang Wenqi can only wait patiently. It may be that Watt was ready, or that he found out that his identity was exposed, and his wife suddenly ended the "family visit" and bought a ticket back home.
And Watt once again submitted a leave request to the company, which clearly indicated that he intended to escape. Zhang Wenqi realized that maybe he could start with Mrs. Watt. As soon as Watt's wife arrived at the Beijing airport, she was stopped by the staff who found her luggage hidden in a transmitter and film.
After splicing the content of the film, professionals found that this was a complete topographic map of China's Lanzhou nuclear industrial base. In such an open and upright situation, Watt actually photographed all the nuclear industrial bases in our country.
In Mrs. Watt's luggage, the staff found a portrait of ***, as well as classified information on the atomic bomb, topographic maps of combat readiness, and topographic maps of military airfields. This important information almost fell into the hands of other countries.
Zhang Wenqi did not take immediate action, he felt that there might be other spies hiding behind Watt's back. So, he escalated the idea to the prime minister, who agreed with him.
Zhang Wenqi decided to make a plan and put a long line to catch big fish. He confiscated the secrets, returned the luggage to Watt's wife as if nothing had happened, found a reason to keep it in China, and sent someone to keep it under surveillance.
Realizing that the plan might be exposed, Mrs. Watt secretly sent a telegram.
How do you know I'm American? ”
Zhang Wenqi immediately concluded that Xu Linde was an American spy, because before that, Zhang Wenqi conducted an in-depth investigation into Xu Linde's identity, and the results showed that Xu Linde was British, and his father was a general under Hitler.
However, he claimed to be an American, and Xu Linde claimed to have a strong interest in Chinese geography and often went out to explore alone, but in fact he was gathering intelligence.
At this time, Xu Linde also received a telegram from Mrs. Watt, and he immediately gave Watt the final order. He sent Watt a box of cans, and on the label of the can it was written: "Mr. Watt, what your wife brought out has been found, and you have been exposed."
Please write a letter of accusation against China** to the International Court of Justice, and try to commit suicide after sending it in order to create an international **. This spy is really cunning, and he even wants to create an international ** at the last moment to slander China.
However, when Schlinder asks Watt to commit suicide, he tries to escape. After receiving information about Watt's exposure, he immediately applied to the company to return to China.
However, all this was seen through by Zhang Wenqi, and Xu Linde's escape route could not escape Zhang Wenqi's sharp eyes. Xu Linde plans to fly from Beijing to Guangzhou and then leave China by boat.
Zhang Wenqi was furious: "Don't you want to escape!" Zhang Wenqi immediately ordered the relevant departments, first, only to allow Xu Linde to sell night flights from Lanzhou to Beijing.
Second, the Beijing department is responsible for all exit inspections in Guangzhou. Third, Beijing Airport prohibits the display of the arrival time of 136 flights, and all outsiders say that it cannot be determined due to weather conditions.
These measures are designed to prevent any changes to Xu Linde, who can only fall into Zhang Wenqi's legal net. A struggle between spies and counter-espionage began, and whether or not Xu Linde could be caught was made here.
On the evening of December 12, 1967, Xu Linde's flight 136 arrived at Beijing Airport on time. At this time, Zhang Wenqi and the public security officers had been waiting at the airport for a long time, and the moment they saw Xu Linde walking down the gangway, Zhang Wenqi and everyone immediately rushed up.
When Xu Linde realized that there was an extra cold iron ring on his wrist, he was already **. When he saw his captor, he shouted, "It's you, I'm defenseless!" ”
Zhang Wenqi responded with a sneer: "Stealing China's secrets, you will face the trial of the law." "The public security officers found a large number of microfilms and secret reports in his luggage, and it is really hateful that during the period of hiding in China, he used his identity as an expert to recklessly damage the interests of our country.
Faced with the questioning of the public security officers and the ironclad evidence, Xu Linde finally had to admit all the crimes. His confession is consistent with Watt's that the United States has long been eyeing China's nuclear industry, deliberately manipulating machines and stealing secrets in the name of maintenance.
Zhang Wenqi's investigation revealed this conspiracy, and the United States was able to catch all eyes in China, so that China's secrets could be safe. The enemy's self-inflicted cleverness will only make them suffer their own consequences in the end.
China has become more and more powerful, and many countries have coveted China's secrets for a long time, but China's counter-espionage awareness is also strong. We look forward to a more prosperous country and a bright light to dispel darkness.