How Do I Become an Intelligence Specialist?

Li Wenwen (1908-2002), a native of Weixian, Shandong, has been diligent and hard-working since his childhood. In 1930 he was promoted to Northeastern University with excellent results. In October 1933, Li Wenwen was introduced by Song Yiwen, secretary of the Peiping Federation of Socialist Leagues, to join the Communist Party of China, and became a member of the League of Communists, and has since become a professional revolutionary. At the end of 1934, Li Wenwen went to study in Moscow. In 1941, the Oriental Ministry of the Communist International decided to send Li Wenwen to Shanghai to engage in intelligence work against Japanese invaders and puppets. Li Wen arrived in Shanghai in August of the same year, and got in touch with Nikola Ivanovic, who is responsible for Shanghai area intelligence in the Oriental Ministry of the Communist International, and began eight years of underground intelligence work. From the War of Resistance Against Japan to the War of Liberation, Li Wenwen successfully completed the difficult tasks one after another entrusted by the party on the hidden front of the enemy-occupied area, and made special contributions to the cause of revolution and the birth of a new China. He died of illness in 2002. ^[1]

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(CCP underground intelligence personnel)

Li Wenwen (19082002), born in Weixian, Shandong, has been diligent and hard-working since his childhood. He was promoted with excellent results in 1930.

Li Wenwen has long been engaged in the education of Marxist theory in colleges and universities. He has authored "The History of the Party is an important part of Marxist-Leninist theoretical education in universities" and other translations, and has translated (Soviet) Rabidus's Political Economics Course and Rosenthal's Dialectical Materialism.

Inhuman prison life

In Budrisk Prison, in a large cell of 50 to 60 square meters, there are more than 100 prisoners. Except for a few criminal prisoners, most of them are so-called "political prisoners". There are Soviets and many foreigners. These "political prisoners" are very harmonious with each other, and they are also very friendly to Li Wenwen, so that Li has realized an international friendship. After contacting them, they found that these people, like him, were loyal communist members arrested innocently. They respected Stalin, said that he was the best great proletarian leader in the world, and thought naively that he was under the housework. The blindness of the ministry just happened now, as long as Stalin found out, they would be released, and such a day will soon come.

One Ukrainian lieutenant colonel officer slept next to Li Wenwen, and because he was a Communist, he became a good friend. A Soviet thief on duty always finds a bully for the Chinese man who bullies Li Wenwen and deliberately tortures him. The lieutenant colonel stepped forward and gave the thief a hard blow, so that he never dared to treat Li any more. The prison only distributed 300 grams (6 or 2) of bread every day. Li was often very hungry, and the lieutenant's wife often brought bread, cream, and sausages from home to the lieutenant. He also said to Li more than once: "If we can release them, we will go to China to wage a guerrilla war. You will be the political commissar and I will be the commander." All these moved Li very much.

In May 1938, Li Wenwen, together with several other Chinese "political prisoners", was dispatched from Budrisk Prison to Qi in the Soviet Union near the Arctic Circle. This camp is located in the northernmost tip of Siberia. The natural environment is very harsh. It is freezing in cold weather all year round, and it can reach minus 50 degrees Celsius when it is the coldest. They are engaged in heavy physical labor for more than 10 hours a day, each person has a labor quota, and rations and bread are distributed according to the amount of completion. If you only give 200 grams a day if you do nt work, give 400-500 grams if you finish less than half of the quota, and 800-1000 grams if you have completed 100 percent of the quota. Vegetables and soup are also distributed according to the quota. Labor camps never send necessities such as clothes, hats, shoes and socks to prisoners, let alone daily necessities, forcing you to work hard to earn money to solve them yourself. Many people wear tattered clothes that have been sewn and stitched, patched and patched, and difficult to hide. Li Wenwen is weak and weak, and not good at working hard. He is too tired to die, and of course he is often hungry.

The interpersonal relationships there are also extremely sinister. There are "political prisoners" in this labor camp, as well as many criminals-thieves, hooligans, robbers, gamblers, murderers, etc. These criminals are very arrogant, often bullying and beating "political prisoners", stealing and robbing "political prisoners". Female prisoners are gang raped by them. The entire labor camp is a terrible human hell, where many people are tortured There are dead, starved, exhausted, sick, and frozen, and when they die, they are carried out and buried. Wang Qian, a former young student of Moscow Eastern University, who was detained with Li Wenwen to the labor camp, an old comrade named Bao who joined the party in 1927, and Comrade Wu Xianqing, who was arrested and sentenced at the same time as Li, are in this labor camp. Li died tragically. If Li Wen himself did not get the full help of his friend Yao Gen, he would certainly die.

Yao Gen is four years younger than Li Wenwen. He joined the party in the Northeast in 1931. In the second year after the September 18th Incident, he was sent to Moscow for help by the organization, and was arrested as a Japanese spy shortly after entering the Soviet border area. In the end he was sentenced to an inexplicable sentence of five years and deported to the labor camps of the Far East and Central Asia. In the meantime, due to his excellent work, he should be sentenced to commutation for two and a half years and released in March 1935. However, the Soviet authorities did not believe it. Instead of reducing his sentence, he continued to be detained in labor camp after the five-year term expired, and finally transferred to the labor camp in Qibi. Yao was frustrated and disappointed, and his future was slim. When Li Wenwen arrived, he was in a state of extreme distress and unable to extricate himself.

Li Wenbo and Yao Gen live together in a large work shed. In addition to Yao Gen, there are also some Chinese "political prisoners", some of whom have been detained for a long time. They have once enthusiastically come to this place regarded as a communist mecca The Soviet Union, but no one would have thought that they would suffer unkind injustice and become a criminal. Everyone couldn't understand this reason. In the Soviet Union's northernmost labor camp, it was a severe test for everyone. There is no need to talk about mental torture. Every day, in the severe cold, it is necessary to dig coal, dig, smash stones, build a house, and other excessively heavy physical labor. Many people with poor physical fitness are thus toppled and killed. Li Wenwen works hard all day, ca nt eat enough, and does nt wear warm clothes. With his firm belief and perseverance that he must live, he struggles on the death line and has reached the limit of tolerability.

Yao Gen extended a helping hand to Li. After five years of multiple physical labors, the young man had done all the hard work and built a strong muscles. At the first sight, he and Li Wenwen always gave Li hunger to save his rations, and used the spare time to help others with the money they earned, so that Li did not starve or freeze to death. Once they were sent to a labor camp to dig dredging and build heavy oil depots. Li worked hard for a while, exhausted his strength, and could no longer dig. People seemed to be paralyzed, and the quota was far from being completed. After Yao Gen finished his quota, he returned to help Li do a few hours of work and completed the quota. Such things often happen.

One day, Yao Gen returned from work and saw a group of people around Li Wenwen, watching him do the wood chopping. Lee used a large axe to chop a piece of firewood with a diameter of half a meter. That big axe is called a large wedge axe, the axe weighs ten kilograms, and the thick and long alder axe, a great guy is very strenuous to lift it, I saw Li Wenwen barely lifted the axe When it fell, instead of splitting the firewood, it fell to the ground, leaving only a shallow axe mark on the thick wooden pier. The crowd on the crowd laughed suddenly, and some people said, "Hey, don't put a big axe Fall on your head, watch out for your head blooming! "

Since that day, Yao Gen and several other well-intentioned "political prisoners" have spared as much time as possible to help Li saw wood, chop firewood, and teach him how to skillfully work on these essentials. But after all, Li is a weak scholar and has a small strength and a short stature. No matter how hard he tries, he always can't do it. He is exhausted every time, and he still can't get the quota.

There is a "political prisoner" named Dao Sui. He was the commander of the Soviet Far East Red Guerrilla. He was a good friend of Yao Gen and sympathized with Li. He had a certain amount of prestige in this labor camp. After he talked to the administrator many times, he was able to transfer Li to the ironing room. The work there was relatively light. Li learned quickly and did very well. Li is very grateful for their help and care. He often told his friends that it was they who saved his life. If he continued to do the heavy work of chopping wood, smashing stones and digging earth, he would probably have died.

Seeing that Yao Gen was distressed, he patiently persuaded him and encouraged him, asking him to overcome negative emotions and cheer him up. When Yao stated that he wanted to learn Marxist-Leninist knowledge and to make progress in theory, Li was very happy to help him formulate a specific study plan and give him step-by-step guidance as planned. They sleep on the bunk and can learn from each other almost every night. With the careful guidance and help of Li, Yao made rapid progress. In the nearly one year that they have been with each other, these two friends have become the closest and best friends and comrades. They all have a common ideal in order to pursue the truth, and must not be abandoned halfway, and under no circumstances should they leave the revolution.

After being held for more than six years and three months, Yao Gen was finally released in February 1939 and returned to his motherland. Since the founding of New China, he has been working in the Ministry of Public Security and has served as the director of the General Office of the Ministry of Public Security. He wrote his more than four hundred thousand words of painful experience in the Soviet Union for nearly seven years. The book was titled "The Prisoner's Experience of a Pilgrim" (published by Mass Press in 1955). The elder brother's life experience before and after his death was very vivid and touching.

After Yao Gen left, Li Wenwen continued to serve in the labor camp. He made friends with several foreign "political prisoners", including Communists in the Soviet Union, Poland, the Czech Republic, and North Korea, and often talked to them about the revolutionary situation in various countries. Whenever they saw the news of the victory of the Chinese Red Army in the Pravda, they came to congratulate Li and they also asked Li to visit their residence to introduce the situation of the Communist Party of China. They sent butter and bread at home, and they always brought it out for Li to share. In particular, several Soviet comrades often interceded with administrators and tried to let Li Wenwen do some light work and make life easier. This is also an important reason why Li can survive after Yao Gen leaves.

Appeal to Stalin

Li Wenwen was never reconciled to his own injustice, and was never discouraged. After the labor camp, he continued to write letters of complaint to Stalin like the previous paragraph, and justified himself in defense and demanded a reexamination. In his letter, he cleverly quoted Stalin's own words: "Trotsky recognises the thief as his father, confusedly recognizes his friends as the enemy, and only the Bolsheviks can distinguish the enemy and the friend." He asked, "Why can't I be identified?"

He relentlessly wrote more than twenty letters to Stalin in Russian, some of whom were asked to be taken out by their released friends, and some of them posted by themselves. This repeated appeals finally worked. It is said that Stalin made a statement and, after screening by the relevant departments, formally announced to Li in September 1939: "The original sentence was revoked and his release was redressed." In the past two years, he escaped this doom, and all four comrades arrested with him at the International Guest House died unjustly in the labor camp, and none survived.

However, even if the prisoner is released in vindication, he will not be allowed to return to Moscow. Li Wenwen's treatment is "repatriation." He stayed for several days from Qi Bi, who was repatriated to the labor camp in Godrasberg. In this camp, Li Wenwen saw a lot of Chinese political reformers. A student at Oriental University named Zhang Bei told Li that he was sentenced to 8 years in a special session and said that the vast majority of students at Moscow Oriental University had been arrested. Li also met Comrade Chen Yu, a member of the Communist China delegation sentenced to 20 years in the special session. The two of them talked for a long time, and they were filled with emotion. Chen Russian spoke very fluently. At that time, he was the captain of nearly a hundred people in the labor camp. According to Chen, most people in the Communist China delegation were arrested. They were secretly sentenced to 10 years, 15 years, 20 years, and 25 years in special sessions. They are now serving in several labor camps.

Shortly after staying in Godrasburg, Li Wenwen passed through cities such as Almaty and Akdouka, waiting for the overseas Chinese criminals released in some prisons to come together and repatriate in batches. In the end, there were more than 200 people. Among them, Li Wenwen was a "political prisoner". It was not until the summer of 1940 that the Soviet authorities escorted them through Aya Guz to Tacheng, Xinjiang, China. Li Wen finally ended this nightmare life in the Soviet Union and set foot on the land of the motherland.

Warriors on the hidden front

At that time, it was during the Anti-Japanese War that Li Wenwen decided to return to Chongqing to find the party and join the anti-Japanese ranks. However, the traffic along the way was very inconvenient. He went through all the hardships and made long journeys. After passing through Dihua (now Urumqi), Anxi, Lanzhou, Xi'an, Baoji, and Chengdu, he arrived in Chongqing, the capital of the Kuomintang government, in January 1941.

Through the acquaintance, Li Wenwen found the Eighth Route Army Office in Chongqing and met with Xu Bing, the person in charge. After listening to Li's detailed narration, Xu Bing said, "You have been arrested in the Soviet Union. To resolve the party relationship, you must have a written proof of the Soviet government's formal vindication."

Li managed to find Yan Baohang for help. Yan is a secret party member of the Communist Party of China, directly led by Zhou Enlai, and has close ties with the Soviet Union's embassy in Chongqing in China. Li and Yan met each other in the northeast, and Li respected Yan very much. Yan sympathized with Lee s misfortunes in the Soviet Union, and immediately found Luoshen, a military attache of the Soviet embassy (later Luo was the first ambassador to New China), and asked him to help inquire about the matter. The Soviet Union responded quickly, saying that Li Wenwen was a good comrade. The arrest in 1937 was a misunderstanding. He had already been formally vindicated and asked Li to work in the Eastern Department of the Communist International. The Oriental Ministry of the Comintern is actually a Soviet intelligence agency in the Far East. Luo Shen gave Li Wen a copy of the proof printed in Russian, which was the above. Li didn't want to have any relationship with the Soviet Union, so he evaded and said, "I won't smoke, drink, or socialize, it's not suitable for intelligence work, or let me go back to the Chinese Party." Luo Shen said: "This is the decision , You must stay and work in the Oriental Department of the Comintern. "

Li Wenwen took the proof to meet Xu Bing and reported the views of the Soviet side, expressing his eagerness to return to the Chinese Party. Xu said: "Since the Communist International wants you to stay and work with them, you should work there. The Communist Party is a branch of the Communist International. We cannot grab cadres from the Communist International and dig their feet. Anyway, you are the same Do revolution. "Li repeatedly asked, and Xu didn't relax. In this way, Li had no choice but to accept the Soviet decision. Luo Shen asked Li Xian to assist Yan Baohang in his work. Yan arranged Li to serve as a cover for the Chongqing Wartime Public Debt Advising Committee chaired by Mr. Huang Yanpei.

About a day or two before June 15, 1941, Yan Baohang learned from the Kuomintang Yu Youren and Sun Ke that Hitler Germany would attack the Soviet Union within a few days after June 20. The news was from the National Government in Germany The embassy passed it secretly. On the one hand, Yan reported this to Zhou Enlai, and on the other hand, he asked Li Wenwen to quickly pass this important information to Luo Shen.

It was later known that Pan Hannian subsequently obtained this information in Hong Kong and reported it to the CPC Central Committee. The highest Soviet authorities received the information provided by the Chinese side on June 16, but they are doubtful. Because Soviets and Germans have signed a non-aggression treaty, the Soviets do not believe that German fascists will be so unscrupulous. But just in case, some deployment and preparations were made. Therefore, when the Germans really launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, this historic intelligence enabled the Soviet Union to avoid greater losses. To this end, Stalin called Mao Zedong to express his gratitude. In July 1941, the Oriental Ministry of the Communist International decided to send Li Wenwen to Shanghai to engage in intelligence work against Japanese invaders and puppets. Shanghai is an occupied area. Except that the concession became an "isolated island", it has been completely occupied by the Japanese.

Li Wenwen flew from Chongqing to Hong Kong first, and then arrived in Shanghai by boat in August. He got in touch with the Soviet Union's Nikolai Ivanovic, who is responsible for intelligence work in Shanghai in the Oriental Ministry of the Communist International. Eight years of underground work.

From the War of Resistance Against Japan to the War of Liberation, on the hidden front in the enemy-occupied area, Li applied his ingenuity and profound knowledge, and in a fearless spirit, faced the complex and dangerous environment and the serious threat of white terror, and always bravely and firmly Standing on the front line of the struggle, he accomplished one after another the arduous tasks entrusted to him by the party, and made special contributions to the cause of revolution and the birth of a new China.

Li Lao died in February 2002 and was 94 years old. He is a Communist who is always worthy of our respect and nostalgia.