"Huaxia is now the hottest source of intelligence. (The fastest update is the most stable) "Catherine", of course, Huaxia also, these private intelligence organizations are gold-panning, once they receive a task here, they can feed the entire company for several years. ”

Lin Xiao couldn't help but feel speechless when he heard this, but he didn't expect that foreigners' infiltration of Huaxia intelligence had reached such a point, which was indeed a bit shocking.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it." Lin Xiao shook his head: "It stands to reason that foreigners' activities in China, especially intelligence activities, are not very advantageous, why do they seem to be enjoying them all?" What's the trick here? ”

"Actually, it's wrong, it was very difficult to do intelligence in Huaxia before, but now it's actually very simple to do intelligence in Huaxia......" Catherine's opinion was completely different from Lin Xiao's.

Catherine naturally reasoned.

Just like in the past, the number of foreigners operating in China was very rare, and occasionally seeing one would definitely cause onlookers, so it was actually very difficult for them to engage in intelligence activities in China and become a spy.

Especially the kind of old ladies in the neighborhood form a small-footed detective team, they like to search for gossip when they have nothing to do all day, and when they see anyone coming, relatives have to come up and interrogate them, not to mention foreign devils or anything, that vigilance is much higher than that of the police.

In such an environment, whether it is a spy or a periphery, there is basically no living space.

After the reform and opening up, these restrictions were relaxed, and many foreign friends began to work or live in China, and even settled down for a long time.

Among these people, it is gradually possible to collect intelligence on China, and indeed some of them have undertaken some tasks of spying on China's economy and even military intelligence, but the intensity of this task is not large, and it basically belongs to qualitative analysis, so it is difficult to be discovered.

But now it's different, all kinds of cows, ghosts, snakes and gods have come out, and the types and numbers of foreigners who have lived in China for a long time have exploded, so in this case, it has become impossible to monitor everyone's activities.

"The most important point is that now, many underworld organizations have also begun to cooperate with private intelligence organizations to get money to do things." Catherine specifically mentioned another point: "We are much more efficient than the police, and we can work much more smoothly and accurately." The most important point is to save our own manpower and material resources, so that we can take more orders. ”

"The underworld organization actually does this kind of thing?" Lin Xiao was a little surprised when he heard this.

"Of course, don't underestimate the fact that black organizations are very profitable." Catherine nodded in reply, and then asked her subordinates to dig out a report and hand it to Lin Xiao for reference.

Lin Xiao was stunned when he took a look at it, and found that there was only one statistical table of the annual income of several major black organizations in the world, and there were many detailed data on it, which was very problematic. In this statistical table of children's income, Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi generates an annual income of 80 billion US dollars, about 480 billion yuan in China, and dominates the list. Ranked second, the Russian mafia soltsevskayaratva generates an annual revenue of 8.5 billion US dollars, about 52 billion Chinese dollars. Next, Italy's Camorra is 4.9 billion US dollars, about 29.4 billion yuan, Italy's dragheta is 4.5 billion US dollars, about 27 billion yuan, and the Mexican drug trafficking group Sialoacartel is 3 billion US dollars, about 18 billion yuan.

"For example, the ill-gotten wealth of Japan's Yamaguchi-gumi used to come mainly from drug trafficking, **, and collecting protection money, but now there is a special article on intelligence trafficking." Catherine said to Lin Xiao: "The income from selling intelligence is probably already about 20% of the Yamaguchi-gumi's profits, which is considered to be developing rapidly, and the demand is amazing. ”

Lin Xiao was indeed a little surprised when he looked through those materials.

It is important to know that at present, the annual budget of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government of Japan is about 6 trillion yen, about 360 billion Chinese dollars, Osaka Prefecture is 4 trillion yen, about 240 billion Chinese dollars, Aichi Prefecture 2 trillion yen, about 120 billion Chinese dollars, and the annual income of the Yamaguchi Group is twice that of Osaka Prefecture, and Aichi Prefecture is four times that of Aichi Prefecture.

In addition, the budget of the Japanese government can be compared with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism 6. 85 trillion yen is about 411 billion yuan, and 5 trillion yen is about 300 billion yuan in the Ministry of Defense.

"The income of the Yamaguchi-gumi is even more than that of the Japanese government." Lin Xiao couldn't help but be amazed after reading it.

"We get a lot of first-hand information, which is provided by local black organizations, with a high accuracy rate, detailed content, which is very popular with buyers, and the cost is within the affordable range." Catherine: "Actually, they often act as an intermediary bridge, and they can make money by sitting on it. ”

"It's good business." Lin Xiao nodded.

In fact, demand is the market, the market is profitable, and profit is the first person to come out for this.

Catherine's private intelligence industry can indeed provide a complementary role to the political and intelligence agencies to a certain extent, otherwise they would not have developed so smoothly.

The whole of Ankara is like an intelligence market, full of intelligence traffickers and top agents.

The Catherine family was able to gain a foothold here, in addition to the innate advantages enjoyed by the local snakes, and they were also more experienced in the selection of business intelligence projects.

Catherine's strategic prediction of Lin Xiao is actually the most valuable.

For example, many research topics in the U.S. intelligence community are outsourced to private institutions such as research institutes, foundations, universities, and corporations rather than the CIA or its eight major intelligence agencies themselves.

"Our company's customer list is highly confidential, and it's not easy to get out. In fact, our company is very well-known in the circle, from the former vice president of the United States to the military intelligence agencies, all of whom often read our company reports. "Catherine" In addition, many large companies in the Fortune 500 in the United States have customers. ”

In order to show her sincerity, Catherine also asked Lin Xiao to look through the top-secret files.

Lin Xiao only took a cursory look and found that Catherine's company still had a large number of orders from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Moreover, there is even feedback from customers, such as those who have been contacted, and among the interviewees, Catherine's company has reported to the US side, and the other party has commented that these contents are really good, and the way is not ordinary, and many things cannot be done by the US side itself.

In addition, Catherine not only undertakes the United States government commissioned projects, but also undertakes the world's national government or private institutions commissioned projects, such as the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, etc.

However, these countries are many strategic allies of the United States.

"One of our main tasks is to predict future events and directions." Catherine: "Forecasting does not simply propose a few possibilities, but tries to identify the sources of power that will affect the future and the most likely direction of future evolution. Therefore, the company's most core value is strategic forecasting. The most important feature of our company is that it only provides analysis methods and analysis content, that is, it only provides information and does not provide conclusions. ”

Lin Xiao thought it was true after hearing this.

Catherine does a very good job of intelligence, providing only raw material and rarely expressing her opinions, unless you get a lot of input from the other side, you may do in-depth research.

But in terms of price, of course, it is a very staggering number.

"Then why did they do a good job in the intelligence industry, and suddenly remembered to engage in super batteries?" Lin Xiao raised his own question: "No matter which industry, as long as it is very good after achieving the extreme, why should you give up your familiar field but enter a new and unfamiliar industry?" ”

Although the super battery has a promising prospect, no one can deny that it really can't eat it if it is strong enough.

Catherine's company may have a slight reputation in the intelligence community, but it is not at all comparable to the energy tycoons in promoting super batteries.

Because of this, Lin Xiao easily agreed to Catherine's request to provide technical or sales agency rights.

"Because business is getting worse and worse right now." Catherine listened to Lin Xiao and couldn't help frowning slightly, and replied, "I have to consider changing careers." ”

In fact, Catherine's main challenge, similar to that of traditional intelligence agencies, is the accuracy, variety, and immediacy of providing intelligence.

Accurate intelligence is life, and once the prediction and analysis are inaccurate, the business will be.

The loss of a business by mistake may be its own business, but the loss of life may be due to the mistake of a state agency.

Intelligence diversity comes from multiple levels, freely exchanging political correctness only the most true facts.

In Catherine's company, interns can challenge the chairman's internal discussions, which are very dynamic, layman leaders are not new, and the timeliness of intelligence requires the team to be smaller and more flexible, able to report in a timely manner and roll reports, so the company keeps a relatively constant number of people, and is also worried that the operation will not be flexible after the stall is too large.

Catherine's father was most struck by predictions in 1999, ahead of U.S. intelligence agencies, that Russian forces would seize the Kosovo airport.

At that time, the company's on-line people on the battlefield learned about the movements of the Russian army from different channels.

In addition, they have successfully predicted the Asian financial crisis in 1997.

Only Catherine's father's biggest misprediction in his life predicted that the Iraq war would not be fought.

At that time, there was a fierce debate between the two factions within the company, and Catherine's father, as the chairman, was very convinced that the war in Iraq could not be fought, and because he repeatedly insisted on his own position, he took full responsibility after the failure of the prediction.

"The most fundamental reason for that mistake was that when I was making a strategic forecast, I noticed that something had changed significantly somewhere." Catherine also hated this when she mentioned it, "But it seems that more than eighty percent of our company's predictions are accurate, which is very rare." After all, you can't be afraid of mistakes in forecasting, but you must learn from them. Therefore, companies are most concerned about the side of not predicting accuracy and inaccuracy. "Not bad." Lin Xiao couldn't help but nod in agreement when he heard this. The most important thing about intelligence is to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, which is very important, and if you don't understand it, you will run into a hard nail and destroy yourself one day in the future.