 The arrest, the result of close co-ordination with the Special Branches in Singapore, Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (M.I.6) and French colonial intelligence, broke up the Comintern's secret International Liaison Department in the city.The SMP also correctly identified Richard Sorge as a member of the Third International; he was resident in the city from 1930-33.After 1928 Special Branch worked closely with Guomindang intelligence services, helping to destroy and disperse much of the urban base of the Chinese Communist Party by 1932.