Dai Li is an important figure of the Kuomintang in the history of the Republic of China. He is very mysterious. In terms of ability, talent and experience, he is a very special person and worthy of study.
1. In terms of work ability:
Dai Li has long served as the head of the Military Command Bureau, the intelligence and governance agency of the Kuomintang government, and his work ability is deeply trusted by Chiang Kai-shek. As the saying goes, he was a "secret chief". Before his death in a plane crash in 1946, he led countless operations of the Military Command Bureau, persecuting and killing a large number of Chiang Kai-shek's political opponents and people whom Chiang Kai-shek hoped to get rid of. During the Anti-Japanese War, this agency also assassinated many Japanese invaders, puppet intelligence agencies, traitors, etc. Its hands were stained with the blood of the people, and it also eliminated many public enemies of the people - Japanese invaders and traitors. etc., can be said to be a very complex figure;
2. From the perspective of talent:
Dai Li does have certain outstanding talents in intelligence, among which the most famous one according to records is undoubtedly In 1941, he personally went to Myanmar twice to build intelligence systems and networks. In early December of that year, the Military Control Bureau under Dai Li was able to decipher the intelligence of the Japanese army's sneak attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor! Although this intelligence did not receive enough attention after it was notified to the United States, after the incident, US President Roosevelt specifically asked the Kuomintang government to meet with Dai Li, which shows that he does have certain professional abilities and talents;
3. Judging from experience:
Dai Li was born in Quzhou, Zhejiang in 1897. He was also considered a fellow Zhejiang fellow of Chiang Kai-shek. Although he was not from the same city, he was highly regarded by Chiang Kai-shek who paid great attention to the relationship with his fellow villagers. In his early years, he entered the Whampoa Military Academy in 1926 and began to engage in intelligence work in 1928. He would then begin to develop an intelligence network, assassinate Beiyang warlords and traitors, etc. The subsequent house arrest of generals related to the Xi'an Incident, such as Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng, had killed many Chinese *** People were also executed by his department. During the Anti-Japanese War, he directed the military command to assassinate Wang Jingwei, the main traitor of the Wang Puppet regime (unsuccessfully), and successfully assassinated the Wang Puppet Foreign Minister and the special envoy of the Japanese Emperor, Baron Gaoyuebo, etc.
Judging from his experiences, he is indeed a complex figure. He is a historical sinner in terms of persecuting and killing people, and he has made certain contributions to the nation in terms of assassinating Japanese invaders and traitors. His whereabouts Weird, extremely cunning, and a mysterious figure.
On March 17, 1946, Dai Li took a special plane from Qingdao to Nanjing and died when the plane crashed into a mountain in Daishan Mountain in the western suburbs of Nanjing, ending his complicated life.