Kang Sheng
The CDSA was thoroughly reorganized in summer 1949. It was renamed, becoming the Liaison Department (not to be confused with the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party), and was attached to the General Intelligence Department of the Central Military Commission (chaired by Mao Zedong himself). The new department was given a new chief; Kang Sheng was removed, being replaced by General Li Kenong, a protégé of Zhou Enlai.