Ling Yun (politician)

Ling Yun
凌云
1st Minister of Public Security
In office
June 1983  September 1985
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Jia Chunwang
Personal details
Born Wu Peilin
29 June 1917 (1917-06-29) (age 98)
Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Political party Communist Party of China

Ling Yun (simplified Chinese: 凌云; traditional Chinese: 凌雲; pinyin: Líng Yún; (born June 29, 1917), born as Wu Peilin (吴沛霖), is a former politician of the People's Republic of China, the first PRC Minister of State Security.

Biography

Ling Yun was born in Jiaxing county, Zhejiang, on 29 June 1917. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1938. After a period of political activism in Shanxi province, he arrived in the central party base in Yan’an, Shaanxi, in 1939. Here he joined and advanced in the ranks of the Central Department of Social Affairs, led, at the time, by Kang Sheng. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China and dissolution of the Social Affairs Department, he served in the public security sector, first in Ji’nan, Shandong, and beginning in 1952 in the Ministry of Public Security, where he eventually advanced to the post of vice-minister. Ling Yun was Minister of State Security from June 1983 to September 1985.

External links

(Chinese) Profile of Ling Yun (Chinese) Biography of Ling Yun

Government offices
Preceded by
none
Minister of State Security
1983 1985
Succeeded by
Jia Chunwang
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