Lai Teck
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Lai Teck (or Loi Tek) was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. He betrayed the MCP in 1947 when he disappeared with the party's money. Word had it that he had not only been a traitor, but a three-way spy as well during the Second World War. He had allegedly been working for all three sides in the war - notably the Japanese, British and the communists who were hoping that after the Japanese were vanquished they could use the brief time they had before the British return to instigate an uprising and set up a communist government, which had been their main objective all these years.
With Lai Teck gone, they elected a new leader Chin Peng, who believed in firmer and if necessary military action to bring all their efforts to fruition.
Fang Chuang Pi, longtime Communist Party of Malaya leader, stated in 1990 that the CPM had eventually tracked down Lai Teck and killed him, but declined to say where or when the execution had taken place.
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