Comments on Suppressing and Liquidating
Counterrevolutionaries

(September 27, 1950)

Source: Wansui (1969), pp. 6-7. Other Chinese Texts: Wansui (19678). Pe
152; Liang Chen anjian, 4 (1968) (excerpt). Available English Translation

The Wansui (19670) version differs from the Wansui (1969) version in that it
October 9, 1943, for the first paragraph and September 27, 1950, for the second p

graph here.

(The policy of] not executing a single [secret agent] and not arresting Mm
majority of them is a policy to which we must adhere in the current struga®
against secret agents. If not a single secret agent is to be executed, they will

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Here to make a clean breast of things; by not arresting the majority among
in, only a small number [of cases} will have to be handled by the security
and, While the majority can be handled by the various [government offices]
and schools themselves. We must make the Party committees in all the locali-

fies adhere to this policy.
party leadership should be particularly stressed in security work, which in
tice should be put under the direct leadership of the Party committee; oth-eswise there would be danger.