Lai Teck

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name = Lai Teck


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birth_date = 1900 [cite book|title=Red storm over Asia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wdPaRlnosBAC&q=&pgis=1|author=Robert Payne|origyear=1951|pages=288|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=]
birth_place = Annam [cite book|title=The Indian Year Book of International Affairs|author=University of Madras|origyear=1980|pages=406|publisher=University of Madras|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=yxhbAAAAIAAJ&q=%22lai+tek%22+born+annam&dq=%22lai+tek%22+born+annam&lr=&pgis=1]
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residence = Vietnam, Malaya, Sinagpore
nationality = Vietnamese/Malayan
other_names = Lai Tek, Loi Tak, Lee Soong [cite book|title=Red storm over Asia|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=wdPaRlnosBAC&q=&pgis=1|author=Robert Payne|origyear=1951|pages=288|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=] , Wong Kim Geok, [cite book|title=A History of Singapore, 1819-1988|author=Constance Mary Turnbull|origyear=1989|pages=147|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0195889118] Chang Hung, Mr. Wright [cite book|title=From Pki to the Comintern, 1924-1941|author=Cheah Boon Kheng|origyear=1992|pages=28|publisher=SEAP Publications|isbn=0877271259]
known_for = Secretary-General of the MCP
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party = Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army
Malayan Communist Party
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Lai Teck was a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army. A Vietnamese of mixed Sino-Vietnamese descent, [cite book|title=Singapore: Wealth, Power And The Culture Of Control|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=SL1LI3hIRXYC|author=Carl A. Trocki|origyear=2005|pages=103|publisher=Routledge|isbn=0415263859] [cite book|title=From Pki to the Comintern, 1924-1941|author=Cheah Boon Kheng|origyear=1992|pages=28|publisher=SEAP Publications|isbn=0877271259] Lai Teck was known to have reached Malaya and Singapore in 1934 and joined the Malayan Communist Party and became its Secretary-General in 1938. [cite book|title=From Pki to the Comintern, 1924-1941|author=Cheah Boon Kheng|origyear=1992|pages=26-7|publisher=SEAP Publications|isbn=0877271259]

His betrayal was exposed in 1947 and he subsequently 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.

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