Mao Renfeng

{{Short description|Chinese spymaster}}

{{family name hatnote|Mao|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mao Renfeng
毛人鳳

| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|1|5|df=yes}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|1956|12|11|1898|1|5|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Hecun, Jiangshan, Zhejiang, Qing dynasty China

| death_place = Taipei, Taiwan

| image = File:Mao Renfeng.jpg

| image_size = 250

| caption =

| office = Director of the Bureau of Investigation and Statistics

| term_start = 17 March 1946

| term_end = 11 December 1956

| president = Chiang Kai-shek

| predecessor = Dai Li

| successor =

| nationality = Chinese

| children = Robert Yu-Lang Mao

| nickname =

| allegiance = {{nowrap|{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=Republic of China}}}}

| serviceyears = 1925–1956

| rank = General

| battles = Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Chinese Civil War

| awards =

| laterwork =

| country = Republic of China

| occupation = Intelligence Chief, Spymaster

}}

Mao Renfeng ({{zh|t=毛人鳳|w=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;{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AW9yrtekFRkC&pg=PA302 |title=Opposition and dissent in contemporary China|first=Peter R. |last=Moody|year=1977|publisher=Hoover Press|page=302|isbn=0-8179-6771-0|access-date=24 March 2022}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YoB35f6HD9gC&pg=PA181 |title=Patterns in the dust: Chinese-American relations and the recognition controversy, 1949-1950|first=Nancy Bernkopf |last=Tucker|author-link=Nancy Bernkopf Tucker|year=1983|publisher=Columbia University Press|page=181|isbn=0-231-05362-2|access-date=24 March 2022}} 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.{{cite book |author1=Howard L. Boorman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3AJFusMHJwC&dq=38+army+Sun+Li-jen&pg=PA166|author2=Janet Krompart|year=1970|title=Biographical Dictionary of Republican China|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn= 0231045581}}{{Cite web|title=再論孫立人與郭廷亮「匪諜」案 |trans-title= Review on the "Bandit Spies" Cases of Sun Li-jen and Guo Ting-liang |url=https://zh-cn.facebook.com/Gen.SunLiJen/posts/522362037833364/ |last=Zhu |first=Hong-Yuan |date=10 August 2012 |access-date=4 April 2022 |publisher=Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica |via=Memorial Hall of General Sun Li-jen |language=zh-TW|location=Taipei}}

His son, Robert Yu-Lang Mao, is currently chairman of Hewlett-Packard China.{{cite web|url=http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/international/art/20130828/18397670|title=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|website=hk.apple.nextmedia.com|accessdate=2017-09-11}}

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