关于中国共产党中央调查部的历史考察

A Historical investigation of the CPC Central Investigation Department

在中华人民共和国成立60年来存在过的众多重要机构中,像中央调查部这样鲜为人知的机构绝无仅有,这是由它的工作性质决定的。中央调查部成立于1955年,1983年并入国家安全部,在冷战时期为维护中华人民共和国的利益发挥了十分重要的作用,如果没有工作在"隐蔽战线"上的人们所做的卓越贡献,当代中国的发展道路可能会大不相同。

Of all the many Chinese central state and Party institutions that have existed at one time or other,for shorter or longer periods,in the last sixty years since the founding of New China,few is as little known and imperfectly understood outside China as the Central Investigation Department (CID).This,of course,is hardly surprising,but is a natural consequence of the nature of its work. In existence between 1955 and 1983,the department was the Chinese Communist Party's most impor- tant intelligence agency and played a crucial role in securing the vital legitimate interests of the PRC at the height of the Cold War.Contemporary China's development path would in retrospect have looked very different,had it not been for the outstanding contributions made by the people working on what Chinese historians now call'the covert front'.