Volume 2 The Return of the Naked Child Chapter 15
After Wesley's report, Japell propped his heavy forehead on his hand
The actual situation is exactly the same as the results of Wesley's analysis a few days ago: Before leaving Pretoria, Ji Youguo reached an agreement with the South African president on expanding military exchanges and cooperation, and confirmed that the Chinese naval fleet will visit South Africa early next year and that South Africa will send warships to visit China in the near future, and the two sides will also hold talks in the near future to discuss matters concerning joint research and development in several important military technologies
Egypt was more active, and the day after Ji Youguo arrived in Cairo, Egypt signed a contract with China for the import of weapons
Although the quantity is not very large, and China's second-hand weapons are mainly imported in the form of half buy and half give, the impact is very significant, especially the "Air Police 200" type early warning aircraft and conventional submarines that the Egyptian military focuses on purchasing, which will inevitably break the strategic balance in the Middle East
Ji Youguo played a ruthless move
According to Wesley's estimates, for every $100 million China sells to Arab countries, the United States will have to provide at least $500 million in additional aid to Israel to ensure a strategic balance in the Middle East
For the US federal government, which has reached a record high fiscal deficit, spending billions of dollars to aid Israel will inevitably make the budget worse, and will deal a serious blow to several welfare policies that Japell has pursued in order to increase his approval rating, and even finally have a difficult birth
Japel faced an awkward dilemma
If the aid to Israel is increased, voters will vote for the Republican Party two years later because the president has not fulfilled his campaign promises, and if the Republican Party does not take the opportunity to win over Jews and pro-Semites, the Jewish-controlled interest groups will also fall to the Republican Party, and the Democrats will still lose the election in two years' time
Egypt is only the first stop on Kiyoko's Middle East tour, and who dares to guarantee that he will not drop a bigger "bomb" in Tehran?
After pondering for a while, Japell sighed and asked Wesley, who was sitting across from him, "Do you think we should increase our aid to Israel?" ”
Wesley shrugged his shoulders and didn't say anything
As director of the CIA, he is only responsible for providing the president with the latest information, analyzing the current situation, providing reference opinions, or policy recommendations, which is the job of Secretary of State Lynch, or National Security Advisor Eric, among others
"It seems that Ji Youguo doesn't want us to sleep peacefully," Japel sighed again, "According to the current situation, how likely is it that Ji Youguo will sign a military cooperation agreement with Iran in Tehran?" ”
"Very big," Wesley replied objectively
Japel frowned slightly, "In this case, we must prepare in advance"
Wesley nodded, and that's exactly what he thought
Compared with Egypt, China is playing the card in Iran to be more deterrent, and if China provides Iran with advanced weapons, Israel will inevitably increase its armament level and even take extreme measures to defend its national security
After thinking about it, Japeel said: "At this stage, we must convince Israel that no matter what China does, the United States is Israel's strong backing Tomorrow, I will let Lynch fly to Tel Aviv and meet with the Israeli prime minister."
"If the president is not going to increase economic aid to Israel, I think it would be better to help Israel in the form of intelligence aid."
"What do you mean?" Jappel immediately motioned for Wesley to continue
"We expect that China will sell much less weapons and equipment to Egypt, indicating that China does not want to provoke Israel too much, even if the Jiyou Congress agrees to sell advanced weapons to Iran during his visit to Tehran, the number will not be very large, in the short term, Israel's military strength is still far greater than that of other countries in the Middle East, relatively speaking, Israel needs more intelligence, especially intelligence on Chinese weapons and equipment."
Japel nodded slightly, "You're right, it's just that we've been cooperating with Israel in the field of intelligence......"
"Not thoroughly cooperative," Wesley said with a wry smile, "for decades, Israel has not believed that any country has been spying on our classified information, and it is suspected that our bias in some policies in favor of Arab countries will not be very effective if we continue to provide intelligence to Israel in the same way as we have done in the past."
"What do you mean......"
"There must be high-level meetings, at least high-level meetings of the intelligence community"
Japel frowned slightly, "You mean, arrange for you to meet with the Israeli intelligence chief?" ”
Wesley nodded, "This is the best way for us to show our sincerity, and only in this way can we convince Israel that we are a trustworthy ally."
"But after your identity is revealed, ......"
"Not an official meeting, just a secret meeting"
Japel rubbed his forehead, he felt it was too risky
Wesley didn't continue to insist
After all, his identity cannot be easily revealed, even the intelligence agencies of the allies only know his code name, and do not know his real name and real appearance
"Do you think it's really necessary to meet with the Mossad chief?"
Wesley nodded, "I only provide advice, whether to adopt it or not is up to His Excellency the President to decide"
Japel sighed and said, "You go and arrange the specifics, try to keep a low profile"
"That's for sure
Any intelligence agent will act in a high-profile manner"
"Also, is there a catch from Nadic's side?"
"He was having a meeting with a couple of Republican dignitaries yesterday and there was nothing special"
Japell didn't ask any more questions, after all, Wesley was not an official to be at his mercy
Why did the president let the CIA, and not the F, investigate Nadiq? Wesley guessed that the president wanted to find out who had given Silberk the information
Either way, Wesley didn't want to get involved
The Democratic Party is over, even if Japell can suppress Republican members in both houses of Congress, and pass several welfare policies that are very beneficial to middle- and low-class Americans in the past two years, the Democratic Party will also lose the election in two years, when the Republican president enters the White House, he will definitely investigate the role played by Japell and Jonathan in the "Humayun Tomb Bombing", and even re-investigate the cause of Jonathan's death, no matter what the final result is, Japell is a grasshopper idiot after the fall, and he will catch the "chariot" of the Democratic Party at this time, Die for a president who has lost power
Wesley doesn't expect to be re-elected as CIA director in two years, nor does he want to be ruined like James McCord in Watergate
As the C.I.A. director left the White House, Lee walked into Senator Nadic's office
The U.S. Senator is not a "oily" position, and an annual salary of less than $100,000 is not enough to cover daily expenses
Nadik's office is austere, even a little shabby
"Mr. Li, we have considered your proposal and think it is very valuable" Nadik personally poured a cup of coffee for Li Cunxun, and his attitude was more courteous than the previous few times, "It's just that we want to know, what kind of help does Mr. Li need from us, and how can we ensure our benefits?" ”
"The income can be paid monthly, if you feel that I am a trusted partner, I am also very happy to expand the scale of investment for your Excellency, as for the information I need......" Li Cunxun smiled faintly and said, "Of course, the more money you make, the better, after all, I am a businessman, I care about practical interests, unlike Your Excellency, who has lofty political ideals."
Nadiq smiled and nodded, "This is very easy to do, but the information provided to us by Mr. Li ......"
Li Cunxun took out a box containing a CD, "This is the latest information I only got yesterday, I believe it will not disappoint Your Excellency"
Now, Nadic smiled even more heartily
"Your Excellency, you're not going to ask me to talk about this, are you?" Li Cunxun reminded the senator who was a little overexcited
"Of course, of course not" Nadik put down the box and took out a brown paper bag containing written documents from the drawer, "This is the information you need, although it is not much, but it is very crucial Of course, I also believe that Mr. Li knows the importance of these documents and will not let a third party know"
"Of course, we are all honest people!" Li Cunxun picked up the brown paper bag, "I won't delay Your Excellency's precious time, I'll contact Your Excellency after Your Excellency has decided on the amount of investment."
"No problem, I'll call you" Nadik got up and sent Li Cunxun out the door
After walking out of the Capitol, Li Cunxun casually flagged down a taxi
Half an hour later, Li Cunxun boarded the intercity high-speed train from Washington to New York, and in order to avoid revealing his whereabouts, Li Cunxun rarely repeated a certain means of transportation
Before dark, Li Cunxun returned to his temporary apartment
"How's it going, it's not a small gain, isn't it?"
"Big harvest" Li Cunxun threw the kraft paper bag to Liu Xiaobin, and took out a cigarette, "You hurry up and deal with it, see if there are any bosses of the companies we are investigating"
Liu Xiaobin quickly browsed it and said: "There are three, and the content is more comprehensive than what we have mastered."
"Write them all down and take action tomorrow night" Li Cunxun took two puffs of his cigarette, and on the train, he held back for a few hours, "select a few more potential companies, invest in the name of 'Huashi', no matter whether you make money or not, the accounts must be done beautifully"
"I know this, but we can't make a loss-making deal, right?"
"Are you afraid of losing money?" Li Cunxun laughed, "Well done, we can not only successfully complete the task, but also let those Republican bigwigs pay our pensions"
Liu Xiaobin smiled and shook his head, will the field agents consider a "pension"?
Li Cunxun was in a very good mood, and he read the contents of the document on the way
As the chairman of the Senate Financial Supervision Committee, Nadiq does have some skillsOf course, this is not entirely his personal ability, and those Republican bigwigs have also played a very key role
After calming down, Li Cunxun also realized that those Republican bigwigs didn't care about money
If the Republicans can win the election in two years and have a majority in the House and Senate, their enormous power will bring them untold wealth
The key is whether the information provided by Li Cunxun can completely stink the Democratic Party!
Damn it*
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