Mao Renfeng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Mao.
Mao Renfeng
毛人鳳
Director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics
In office
17 March 1946 – 11 December 1956
PresidentChiang Kai-shek
Preceded byDai Li
Personal details
Born(1898-01-05)5 January 1898
Hecun, Jiangshan, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty China
Died11 December 1956(1956-12-11) (aged 58)
Taipei, Taiwan
ChildrenRobert Yu-Lang Mao
OccupationIntelligence Chief, Spymaster
Military service
Allegiance Republic of China
Years of service1925–1956
RankGeneral
Battles/warsSecond Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Chinese Civil War

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.

Beginning on 25 May 1955, Mao's BIS secret agents, in conjunction with political warfare officers and military police, began arresting and torturing the subordinates of General Sun Li-jen for being pro-American in an alleged coup against Chiang Kai-shek's regime, for collaborating with the Central Intelligence Agency to take control of Taiwan, and for declaring Taiwanese independence;[1][2][3] by October, more than 300 officers had been arrested and detained by the BIS and the Taiwan Garrison Command on charges of high treason for conspiring with Communist spies to stage a coup. General Sun was also placed under house arrest for 33 years until 20 March 1988, which was one of the cases of political persecution in the history of the White Terror.[4][3]

His son, Robert Yu-Lang Mao, is currently chairman of Hewlett-Packard China.[5]

References

  1. ^ Moody, Peter R. (1977). Opposition and dissent in contemporary China. Hoover Press. p. 302. ISBN 0-8179-6771-0. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  2. ^ Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf (1983). Patterns in the dust: Chinese-American relations and the recognition controversy, 1949-1950. Columbia University Press. p. 181. ISBN 0-231-05362-2. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  3. ^ a b Zhu, Hong-Yuan (10 August 2012). "再論孫立人與郭廷亮「匪諜」案" [Review on the "Bandit Spies" Cases of Sun Li-jen and Guo Ting-liang] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Taipei: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 4 April 2022 – via Memorial Hall of General Sun Li-jen.
  4. ^ Howard L. Boorman; Janet Krompart (1970). Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231045581.
  5. ^ "共產黨仇敵毛人鳳之子 毛渝南任惠普中國董事長 | 蘋果日報 | 兩岸國際 | 20130828". hk.apple.nextmedia.com. Retrieved 2017-09-11.


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