What are the unknown facts embedded in the TV series "Kite"?

Introduction

Following Subterfuge (the screen name of the number one Go player, Ke Jie, is Subterfuge), Kite is back on the air. It's about the hidden intelligence front of underground workers. Though the second half is all about the "movement".

Captain Iron's thoughts are now drifting like a kite to nowhere, so let's talk about the world's leading Chinese intelligence front during World War II.

The first impression of China during World War II was that it was poor, backward, weak and militarily incompetent in the extreme. Compared with its main rival, Japan, it was indeed backward, but at that time China was not so bad that it won the three battles that shocked the world on the intelligence front. Only due to wartime secrecy, the change of government after the victory of World War II, coupled with the grabbing of credit by the Allies. So much so that China's three glorious intelligence battles were lost to obscurity and unknown. Captain Iron has organized them for the benefit of our readers.

World Background

China before World War II certainly can't be compared to China now, but it is not a role to be slaughtered, the comprehensive national strength is still the world's top ten! Captain Iron had a point when he said that.

The world before World War II did not have as many countries as it does now, and it had almost been carved up by the Great Powers. At that time, Britain was still called the Sunset Empire, and India was still just a British colony. There were only four independent countries in the vast Asia: China, Japan, Turkey and Thailand. The rest of the world was either colonies or protectorates.

The top of the food chain in the world is Britain, the United States, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and the Soviet Union, and then China. When Germany, Japan and Italy were destroyed at the end of World War II, the world was left with only five major powers, the US, the USSR, Britain, France and China. China at that time had some light industrial base and its own military industrial system, (which was established with the help of German advisors).

The U.S.S.R. exported a lot of military technology to China out of the need to fight Japan, and one of the more prominent and quick results was in the field of intelligence - telecommunication and cryptography. China has lived up to its reputation in this regard. Whether it's the CTS on the Kuomintang side or the Red Agents on the ****producer side, all of them have a background of staying in foreign countries, and China's intelligence stations have a fairly high starting point!

Intelligence Warfare Technology

What was the core of intelligence technology during World War II? It was telecommunications and codes.

Spies have a long history, but before the invention of the telegraph the transmission of intelligence could only be utilized manually, which was not only long and inefficient, but also very dangerous. Into the twentieth century with the development of technology, small telegraphs became practical, which was a revolution in intelligence technology. The subsequent use of mathematical principles for encryption and reverse decryption was another leap in intelligence technology. In the context of World War II, telegraphic cryptography could often determine the success or failure of a war. This doesn't mean that manual intelligence is obsolete, of course. It's akin to the "barrel theory" of chess, in which a fortress is always breached from the inside.

But as a TV series, the code-breaking aspect is not "exciting" enough to warrant more coverage. I have to "ignore" this aspect of the story. In the real history, several big victories of China's intelligence front during WWII could not have been achieved without telecommunication and cryptography.

But how did such a "backward" country as China come to the fore in this regard?

Captain Iron tells the story.

China's Advantages

First, as an ancient civilization, China has a long and glorious military tradition, and the same is true for espionage. As early as the time of Sun Tzu's "Art of War", the "use of intermediaries" has been elevated to the height of national strategy.

Secondly, due to the many years of war in China, both sides of the state **** are tightly organized and united in the context of the war, and both sides have a large number of well-trained and not afraid to sacrifice their talents.

Third, the country **** both sides of the intelligence work from a very high starting point, both foreign returnee background, not millet plus rifles so simple, are the most advanced technology at the time of the training out of the two sides are standing on the shoulders of giants.

Fourth, China has the richest experience in the war against Japan. Since the outbreak of the war in 1937 until 1941, China had fought independently against Japan for four years. Although it has lost many battles, it has also lost many wars. Only intercepted various Japanese telegraphic code information has accumulated tens of thousands of pieces of information, this is any other country can not be compared.

The real CTS

The full name of the CTS is called the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, or CTS for short. There are different names for different stages. Generally in TV dramas, our party's most vicious opponents are the Junta, as if the Junta is synonymous with the KMT reactionaries. But in the reality of the struggle between the two sides of the Kuomintang***, it was the CCTU that was the first line of the battle with our party. And at one time the CTS was the only intelligence secret service organization of the KMT.

So what does the military intelligence do? First of all, the military was established very late, the original is the second division of the Central Intelligence Agency, responsible for military and police investigations, the director is the famous Daiasa. Chiang Kai-shek in the Central Intelligence Agency after the growth of power is worried about difficult to manage, so from the need to check and balance of power, the Central Intelligence Agency in Dai's second division independent, called the Military Commission of the National Government Bureau of Investigation and Statistics, referred to as the military intelligence.

Dai is Chiang Kai-shek's student is very trusted, but the cultural level is not high. The Juntunta took the route of the bottom of the social stratum hooligans. The KMT's internal evaluation of the military system once pointed out in a very profound way: the Central Committee is good at doing **** the proletariat intelligence, the Ministry of National Defense, the Second Office of the Ministry of National Defense is good at collecting military intelligence, and Dai's military system is only good at doing the enemy's pseudo-intelligence. Simply put, during World War II there were a large number of gangster gang leaders in the fallen areas, and they all stepped on two boats, which gave the military intelligence room to maneuver.

After the end of the war, the Junta shifted its direction, moving mainly toward internal surveillance and control of the military, becoming an important tool for Chiang Kai-shek to control the military and prevent revolutionary uprisings. In a way, the CCTU was more like the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for the outside world, while the Junta was somewhat similar to the FBI for the inside world.

Chinese returnee founder of the CCTU - Chen Lifu

The earliest intelligence service on the Kuomintang side was the CCTU, and the founders of the CCTU were Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu. It is the Chen family in the four big families of Chiang Song Kong Chen that was said back then. Chen Guofu is the nephew of Chen Qimei, the revolutionary mentor that Chiang Kai-shek followed back then, and Chen Lifu is Chen Guofu's younger brother. If Chen Guofu handily still because of this background relationship, while the younger brother Chen Lifu is an authentic high-tech returnee.

Chen Lifu graduated from Beiyang University in the early years of mining, and then went to the United States to study to obtain a master's degree in mining engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. Chen Lifu returned to China to do industry originally had no intention of politics, so his brother Chen Guofu recommended him to do the head of the Central Committee when he was not willing. Firstly, he thought that his profession was completely unsuitable, and he did not understand secret service and intelligence work, and secondly, he thought that his personality was not suitable.

It is said that at this time a Kuomintang veteran Dai Jitao advised him, "Look at the vajra in the temple, all of them are cross-eyed and angry, while the Bodhisattva in the center is a dignified face with kind brows and a solemn appearance, and only in this way can you be subdued ah." Chen Lifu then agreed to take over, but also very bookishly mentioned two: First, after the country is at peace I have to do my job back. Second, I must be treated with courtesy and no anger.

University of Pittsburgh

The real reason secret agents are a bunch of lawless people, and it must be a kindly elder to not drive them to a desperate dogfight. To read it from another angle: the secret service is the most taboo of the three. Chiang Kai-shek is bent on using Chen Lifu as a supervisor, in fact, is to see his returnee background without political ambitions as well as the weakness of the domestic things do not know too much, so that it is easy to control, can be used with confidence. And people with a returnee background, more or less will have the spirit of contract and the spirit of the rule of law, the hands of this lawless power will also be self-restraint after mastering the lawlessness, not to fool around. This is the side of Chiang Kai-shek know people well.

It is said that the real Chen Lifu is not only not very proficient in the intelligence business, and even the Chinese language is not very good, to do instructions in English, and then let his wife and secretary to translate into Chinese, and then to the subordinates to hand a note. This is an anecdote of sorts, I don't know if it's true or not.

The high-tech CEO of the CTS -- Xu Enzeng

The actual head or CEO of the CTS is Xu Enzeng. He and Er Chen are cousins, but that doesn't count as his entry point. He has a very impressive resume, graduating from Shanghai Nanyang Public School (predecessor of Shanghai Jiaotong University) in 1921, majoring in electrical engineering. He then went to the United States to obtain a master's degree in industrial management from the Carnegie Institution of Technology. During his time in the United States, he interned at the famous Westinghouse Electric, which produced radar for the U.S. Navy in 1941, and is a high-tech military enterprise, and to this day is the most important supplier to the U.S. Department of Defense. Xu Enzeng himself is a radio expert, in the last century in the head of that era is authentic high-tech, similar to today's development of artificial intelligence in Google it.

Instead of working as a secret agent, Xu Enzeng's first job after returning to China was to help set up what was then China's central radio station, and then Radio China. Xu Enzeng was then persuaded by Chen Lifu to join the CCTV. After all, he was a high-tech returnee, or a management student, and immediately began to change the world with a scientific and technical mindset after getting into the swing of things.

Firstly, he brought into play his rigorous attitude of governance and established a strict and orderly file management system to keep all kinds of information in order, which is the basis of intelligence. Then he played his management expertise, rationalizing the budget to save money. Of course, the greater achievements were in the profession. He personally designed and improved the telephone and telegraph and other communication facilities of the Central Intelligence Agency, and also designed the cipher himself, attaching great importance to the work of telecommunication and ciphering.

However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that such a radio expert and Chen Lifu combined together, injected a new ethos of new blood into the Chinese intelligence agencies at that time, which is to respect science and technology, and resolutely follow the technical route!

Under the leadership of Chen Lifu and Xu Endeng, they vigorously recruited and hired various returnees. Technological breakthroughs in intelligence work. China's telecommunication and cryptography technology has laid a very solid foundation. Although China was very backward compared to Japan in general. However, in the field of telecommunication and cryptographic intelligence, because of Chen Lifu and Xu Enzeng, and the subsequent joining of all kinds of patriotic young people returned from overseas, China had a very high starting point, and was not inferior to Japan in this field at all. This has left the seeds for the future explosion of the intelligence front in the war of resistance.