Remarks on the Issuance of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau’s Plan for Purging Its Ranks (May 7, 1951) Comrade Luo Ruiqing [1]: The issue of reviewing, clearing out, and handling former personnel within the public security organs and the police force should be one of the agenda items at this public security work conference, with a full day devoted exclusively to its discussion.
The document from Nanjing [2] is very useful and may be distributed to all attendees for reference.
Mao Zedong May 7 Based on the manuscript copy.
Notes [1] Luo Ruiqing was then Minister of the Ministry of Public Security of the Central People’s Government. [2] Refers to the report dated May 3, 1951, submitted by the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau to the Ministry of Public Security of the Central People’s Government and to the Public Security Department of the East China Military and Administrative Committee, concerning its plan for purging its ranks.