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United States had no foreign intelligence organisation however, it did have plenty of amateur ‘China hands’ –ĭiplomats and merchants who had lived in China for decades. The civil war in China commenced during the inter-war period.
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Mao and Chiang, leaders of armies of thousands of troops, believed that there would be only one ruler for China.
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Lieutenants, were thinking the same: while continuing to fight Japan, how to simultaneously outwit and destroy the other. As the Chinese people endured the Japanese intervention, invasions and the crimes against humanity of the Imperialģ Japanese Army, both Mao Tse-tung and his enemy, Chiang Kai-shek, and both men’s loyal The crossed and parallel histories of spies and their masters is the central theme The deputy head of the General Staff, General Wu Shih, was a During the final three years of the civil war about 105 out of 869 KMT generals defected to theĬCP. Mao employed nationalist forces who had defected, as well as Pro-Moscow communist leaders within the CCP and Chiang’s actions against nationalist generals who plotted to oust him.Įach of the secret war’s integral part was the secret negotiations of Chiang with Nazi Germany and with Japan, whoseįorces he employed against the CCP once World War II was over. International (Comintern) agents in China Chiang’s plotting against the allies (mostly the British and the Americans)Īnd against the Japanese the allies’ bid to turn nationalist China against the Japanese Mao’s actions against It reveals: the clandestine confrontation between Mao and Chiang, and between British intelligence and Communist This book explores the role of spymasters across multiple, interconnected secretīattlefields. Lesson for a spy in the war-torn China, and it is something the reader of this book ought to keep in mind. Suspecting the ever-changing loyalties of friends and enemies alike was the first Morris Cohen, a resourceful Canadian-Jew who became aide de camp andīodyguard of Sun Yat-sen, the inspiring founder of the KMT and anĪcting colonel of his army in the late 1920s. If they succeeded, they’d join forces and turn on the ones who’d been left out of the deal’, concluded – not very hard – the two sets of leaders were constantly trying to come to terms with some faction on the other On two fronts, military and political, and of these the political is the most important. ‘I came to realise that every civil war in China proceeds simultaneously Thereafter, was a game of ruthless expediency. The Chinese warlords’ conflict in the 1911–27 war, and the civil war ‘even to the extent that our several million troops, without even experiencing fierce battle, were shattered by theĮnemy, and innumerable excellent weapons were presented to the Communists and used to massacre us’ Chiang remarked. The moles caused panic and confusion amongst the nationalist decision makers, Is no hole they do not enter’ he complained. Chiang admitted that one 2of the key factors of his defeat was the infiltration of communist spies in the military: ‘There Headed one of the intelligence agencies of Taiwan (Formosa). Zhiyue, in Mao’s office in Yenan, who eventually reached Chungking, the wartime nationalist capital and, after the war, To consultations and top-secret documents. Nonetheless, the informationĪnd advice provided to the opponent by a defector did not equal the intelligence provided by a communist mole with access The CCP rank and file suffered from defections of cadre. In modern intelligence services jargon, high-placed spies areĪlso called moles, penetration agents, deep cover agents or sleeper agents. Streams of vital information of the KMT’s intentions. Of the communist cause): the CCP had abundant spies inside the top echelons of the government and the military who provided Of Chiang and the inherent terror and corruption of the KMT government (which alienated many Chinese, turning them into supporters KMT) for yet another reason beyond those of shrewd strategy and tactics, the overwhelming support of the Chinese, the mistakes Mao defeated the Chinese Nationalist Party ( Kuomintang, Mao inspires strategists of any political persuasion with his war theory, pragmatism, resilience and his defiance againstĪll odds. With his treatise On Guerrilla Warfare (1937), Leadership, the communists defeated the better-armed nationalist regime of the Republic of China under the generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in the epic civil war from 1927 to 1949. Of Heavenly Peace in Tiananmen Square, Mao Tse-tung, a former teacherįrom Hunan, now the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, proclaims the People’s Republic of China.