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Chapter 1566: Great Power House of Cards (Third update, please subscribe)
Friday morning.

Wu Dekun was waiting in the office for his old friend Mickey Andrew. He took the initiative to call and arrange a meeting.

Just after 10 o'clock, the senior FBI agent was taken to the Security Bureau building. When entering the lobby of the building, Mickey looked at the alert level in the lobby and said:

"Your level of alert is very good and worthy of our emulation."

Mickey Andrew is the head of the FBI's local liaison station. He has worked here for many years and has known Wu Dekun for eight years.

Although there is not much cooperation between them compared with the cooperation between the Investigation Department and the CIA, there is more or less some cooperation, such as in counterintelligence.

It's amazing, shouldn't counterintelligence be two other agencies?

But in fact, in the United States, counterintelligence is the responsibility of the FBI, while in the SEA it is the responsibility of the Security Bureau.

Because of this, in addition to ordinary international crimes, there is naturally some intelligence cooperation between them.

"Adjusting the alert status according to the alert level is a very scientific approach."

Listening to Wu Dekun's introduction, Mickey just nodded and then spoke.

"This is indeed a very scientific method and is worth learning. But you know, many things in Washington are not decided by people like us."

When saying this, Mickey shrugged his shoulders helplessly. After coming here, he found that there were many things here that were far ahead of the United States, but the problem was that Washington was not willing to learn from here. After all, Washington had its own arrogance.

What Mickey didn't know was that many of the things here were standards developed based on the experience gained from social development in the next few decades.

Just like he could enter the lobby but had no way to enter the actual office area, he could only have a face-to-face conversation with Wu Dekun in the meeting area.

Completely separating the reception area and the office area is also a very advanced method of preventing enemy infiltration.

These are all experiences.

"I'm afraid we've run into a little trouble,"

Mickey said as he sat down.

"A civilian in the Pentagon turned out to be a Russian informant."

"Oh, my God, Mickey, there was no leak, right?" Wu Dekun comforted him.

Mickey looked apologetic.

"That's where it's bad,"

Then he admitted.

"It's very similar to your 'Clausen Ecker incident.'"

Wu Dekun shuddered. He was really poking at the scar on purpose.

Two years ago, the Security Bureau discovered that Clausen Ecker, an engineer working at Wanhu Cape, had passed a large number of rocket secrets to his superior, a German immigrant, and then, naturally, they fell into the hands of the Russians. This was a huge blow.

Together with several previous diplomatic espionage cases, the Clausen Eker incident was a major event. It was even considered to be the fundamental reason why the Soviet Union was able to be the first to send a satellite into space and gain a leading edge in space. Regarding this, the SEA officials are very secretive.

After several years, he still couldn't get rid of this bad reputation. However, after a similar incident in the United States, Wu Dekun felt much better.

Hmm, so there are traitors on your side too.

"cough!"

Wu Dekun said,

"I always tell you, Mickey, that a belt doesn't hurt."

Wu Dekun was not a sarcastic person. He just said it casually and then asked:
"Okay, how serious is the problem?"

“It’s not yet serious enough to be out of control.”

Mickey said, and then told Wu Dekun the whole story.

The American leaned forward and listened with interest.

"You mean to say that this person had already lurked in the United States twenty years ago?"

"Yes, he used a dead man's identity, and even went to college under his identity, and then joined the Ministry of Defense, and he even got married and had several children,"

Mickey said in an amazed tone:

"Do you believe it? It's similar to your Clausen Ecker incident. It's a long-term latent one."

"Long-term lurking is the biggest characteristic of Russian spies."

Wu Dekun thought for a moment and said:

"Among the Russian spies we found, many are like this. Even couples are spies. Even their children receive training in fighting, which means... they are being trained as spies."

"Yes, we encountered similar things there."

When talking about those spies, Wu Dekun couldn't help but sigh and said:

"How could they do this? Sacrificing individuals and love for the sake of the country is understandable, but they can even sacrifice their own children."

Mickey also agreed deeply:
"Yes, it's hard to understand. Or rather, normal people can't understand their behavior! They may really have a will of steel, but..."

Mickey smiled and said:

"They are still human after all. The guy we arrested agreed to cooperate with us."

Wu Dekun was surprised:

"Cooperate with you?"

"Yes, we plan to use him to pass on some intelligence."

Wu Dekun looked at the other party and asked:
"Has he really turned over a new leaf? Can he send whatever you ask him to send?"

"It won't be like that, nor will it be a lifelong prison sentence. He will be under constant surveillance. Of course, he might sneak into the telephone room and make a secret call to Moscow, but we think this is an opportunity."

Wu Dekun weighed the decision in his mind for a while.

"Mickey, I want to know why you told me this news?" "Because we need cooperation,"

Mickey said:

"We need to raise his position, which means using some intelligence to make Moscow pay more attention to him. And what about him? The area he is responsible for happens to be related to you. So, we need you to provide some intelligence."

That's it!
They wanted to use intelligence to "feed" a double agent.

Wu Dekun looked at Mickey in front of him, thought for a while, and said:
"You know, I can't make the decision on this matter. And this involves the military."

His answer was something Mickey had expected, and Mickey nodded and said.

"I know, that's why I came here hoping that we can cooperate."

Then he stood up and said:

"Well, I think I should take my leave now. I will wait for your good news."

……

When Li Yian learned from Ding En that the United States hoped to cooperate in intelligence, he was silent for a while and did not speak until a long time later.

"We do need to cooperate in many areas, especially in the fight against Russian spies."

Then he added with a rather emotional tone:

"Russian spies are different from other spies we have encountered. They do not necessarily use money to bribe their subordinates when they develop their subordinates.

Sometimes they do it for ideals!"

For the ideal!

This is precisely the fundamental reason why many Russian spies were successful in this era. Many people were willing to help the Soviet Union. The reason they helped the Soviet Union was because they had ideals that ordinary people did not have. Just like the famous "Cambridge Five" and those spies who provided the Soviet Union with secrets such as the atomic bomb.

They even took the initiative to contact the Soviet Union. They were willing to sacrifice everything for their ideals and were willing to make contributions for their ideals.

"Yes, among the Russian spies we investigated, quite a few of them did those things for their ideals. Sometimes, they were more tenacious than we imagined."

Because he has dealt with them a lot over the years, Ding En has a certain understanding of those people.

Nodding, Li Yian said:

"The reason they are so tenacious is because of their faith!"

When it came to the word "belief", Li Yian deliberately emphasized the tone.

"We saw the person in them. But they are human beings just like us. Beneath their bodies is not only flesh, but also a mind that is not afraid of bullets!"

When quoting this sentence, Li Yian sighed:

"So their tenacity in this situation is definitely beyond our imagination."

"So we took another approach, which was to have a debate with them. An ideological debate."

Dinn said with a smile.

"For people with ideals, you can't defeat them with bullets alone. Instead, they will regard bullets as honor.

In this case, well, psychological offensive is more important. As long as their psychological defenses are broken, they will tell you everything they know. Sometimes, once a person's dream is shattered, he will do the exact opposite. "

Ding En then talked about some spies who had defected from the Security Department in the past few years.

"Now they all play a role to a certain extent. The Americans, they do the same thing. It's just that they want to go a little further and hope to use those people as double agents to obtain more intelligence."

Double agent!

When Ding En mentioned double agents, Li Yian just smiled slightly. In the past few years, they used double agents to spread a lot of intelligence to the Soviet Union without the other party knowing, and even used double agents to achieve strategic blackmail.

If it wasn't for the need to stop the loss in time, Xi'an wouldn't even want to close the net. After all, it is very difficult to train a qualified double agent or one that Moscow would trust without a doubt.

"In this game, double agents can sometimes play an unexpected role. It's normal for Americans to think and act this way. You can cooperate with them.

But be careful about the intelligence you provide.”

Li Yian thought for a moment, then said:

"At the same time, we ourselves have to become players in this game. After all, we also need some channels to let the Russians get some of the intelligence we need them to get."

Ding En nodded and said, "Your Excellency's order."

"I see,"

"Also, about providing intelligence. Um..."

Li Yian thought for a while, then said:
"Well, let's use the intelligence from Operation Punisher. We need to give Moscow a heads-up and ask them to tone it down."

Will they converge?

Li Yian didn't know the answer, but he regarded this as an opportunity to play cards with Brezhnev. After all, he had never fought with Brezhnev before.

In many Cold War games, the combat is not done directly, but in a very indirect way, with both sides playing their own cards.

During the Cold War, the relations between countries were like sitting in a house of cards, each side holding a deck of cards and playing their own cards.

Each of them has a royal flush in their hands, and each of them has cards that the other party will take.

When to play a card?
The order in which the cards are played.

Including how to play cards, everything is very skillful and is constantly adjusted according to the situation.

Sitting in this poker game, everyone is here to win, after all, the winner wins everything, and the loser loses everything.

Knowing the cruelty of this game, Li Yian was very cautious every time he played a card.

Just like now, they haven't played cards with each other since Brezhnev came to power.

Now, it's his turn to play...

(End of this chapter)