Mao Renfeng

Mao Renfeng (Chinese: 毛人鳳; Wade–Giles: Mao Jên-fêng; 5 January 1898 – 11 December 1956) was a Republic of China general and spymaster who headed the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics (BIS, also known as the Counterintelligence Bureau and, after 1955, the Intelligence Bureau) from 1946 until his death, succeeding his childhood friend Dai Li, who died in a plane crash in 1946. Between 1946 and 1949, his spy agency played a prominent role in the Chinese Civil War. In 1949, he fled to Taiwan with the rest of the Nationalist government, where he died 7 years later. The CIA reported Mao Renfeng and general Tang Enbo, among other loyalists of Chiang Kai-shek, to have convened with the Generalissimo in Kaohsiung on 20 June 1949. More than two years later, a report was furnished to the CIA with the following content: 1. Chiang Ching-kuo's Political Department and Mao Renfeng's Secrets Bureau are engaged in a bitter struggle for supremacy. 2. The Political Department is now the most powerful organization on Taiwan since it has most of the funds and experienced men from the former Dai Li Organization, Secrets Bureau, San Min Chu I [Youth Corps], and Youth Army. The Department has been successful in propaganda and intelligence work on Taiwan, but its intelligence service in Communist China is weak. 3. The Secrets Bureau, weakened by the loss of men to the Political Department, is attempting to use its guerrilla force to build up a third force in order to break the Chiang family's control of the government. In an attempt to overthrow Chiang Ching-kuo, again Mao Renfeng and Mao Sen are working together secretly in an effort to secure U.S. backing for a third force. With such backing, the Secrets Bureau hopes to regain its prestige. Colonel Li Long is acting...