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Kang Sheng (Chinese: 康 生; pinyin: Kāng Shēng; 4 November 1898 – 16 December 1975) was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Kang Sheng (born 1898, Zhucheng, Shandong province, China—died Dec. 16, 1975, Beijing) was a Chinese communist official who is considered to have been one of the three or four most powerful individuals in the government during the Cultural Revolution (1966–76).
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They were overseen by Mao’s security chief Kang Sheng, who was famous for dressing in black, riding a black horse, carrying a black whip and being accompanied by a vicious black dog. Kang was brutal and calculating, skilled at levying false accusations and extracting false confessions.
Jan 26, 1992 · In 1931, he became security chief. He was sent to Moscow in 1933 as Wang Ming’s deputy to the Comintern. There, he studied Soviet security and intelligence techniques.
Kang Sheng (1898-1975, Wade-Giles: K’ang Sheng), was a senior member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and head of the party’s intelligent bureau or secret police for more than three decades. Kang was born into a land-owning family in Shandong province and attended a boys’ elementary school.
Jul 19, 1992 · Even before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Kang was using terror against dissidents. As Mao's security chief in the early 1940's, he copied the methods of the Stalinist show...
Kang Sheng ( Chinese: 康 生; pinyin: Kāng Shēng; 4 November 1898 – 16 December 1975) was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official, best known for having overseen the work of the CCP's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A ...
