Bai Wanxiang

Bai Wanxiang (simplified Chinese: 白万祥; traditional Chinese: 白萬祥; pinyin: Bái Wànxiáng, Pai Wan-hsiang 1920–2004) was Director of the Kuomintang's (KMT) overseas secret police, the so-called Mainland Operations Office (陸工會, Lu Gonghui), from 1979 to 1986.^[1] Bai is chiefly remembered as the person suspected of masterminding the assassinations of Taiwan pro-democracy dissidents such as Henry Liu (劉宜良) by KMT secret police. Bai is also known to have attempted to have Hsu Hsin-liang (許信良) assassinated by Kung Fu star Jimmy Wang Yu (王羽) during the 1980s.^[2]

Life and career

In China, in 1939 Bai joined the Kuomintang's Three Principles of the People Youth Brigades and rose to the position of Branch Leader. After joining the army he worked in various capacities as an intelligence officer. In the Mainland Operations Office, Bai oversaw parts of the crackdown on dissidents in Taiwan and abroad after the Kaohsiung Incident. He died in the United States in 2004.

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