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to join the Party or to rally around it, they want to set up bogus communist
parties and revolutionary organizations in an attempt to deceive these people,
ensnare them and arrest and kill them.
Third, they know that although the Central Committee has left Shang-
hai, many Party members and sympathizers have stayed behind, independ-
ently carrying on a heroic and unyielding struggle in the workers’ movement,
the students’ movement and all other movements for national salvation. It
is for the purpose of arresting and murdering these people that the opponents
of the revolution have set up phony communist parties and revolutionary
organizations and, taking advantage of the difficulties of communication
between Party members and their higher-level organizations under conditions
of underground activity, have tried to make contact with revolutionaries by
passing themselves off as Party members. Unaware of the tactics of enemy
agents, many revolutionaries did make contact with them and so lost their
lives.
Of course, in attempting to destroy revolutionary organizations, the
enemy agents do not stop at putting up false fronts. They have many other
despicable tricks up their sleeves, as we have already discovered.
Enemy agents do not necessarily try to destroy Communist Party and
other revolutionary organizations as soon as they have infiltrated them, for
they want to make bigger hauls and cause greater damage. Even when they
have a chance to destroy an important organization and arrest its leaders,
they don’t always seize it. They may “exert themselves for the cause” and
pretend to be busy working for the united front, so as to gain the confidence
of the organization and improve their positions in it; thus they hope to be
able to destroy a greater number of organizations and more important ones.
Hence, it is wrong to believe—as some Communists and other revolutionaries
still do—that only those who arrest revolutionaries on sight are enemy
agents. It would be a terrible mistake to place one’s trust in a dubious person
just because that person had “exerted” himself in a particular job, or because
some important task had been smoothly accomplished even though he had
knowledge of it. Persons who make that mistake are the very ones enemy
agents use to cover their operations. Enemy agents often leave such unsus-
pecting revolutionaries at liberty because they can find shelter in their
credulity.
Another method used by enemy agents to infiltrate a higher Party
organization is to sabotage it either from below or from above. When many
Party members and revolutionary cadres have been killed, disguised enemy
agents come forward to “restore the organization” and “re-establish con-
tact,” and thus eventually worm their way into the higher organization. Each