Chapter 047, inexplicable
Frank, who is the head of the CIA's Italian bureau, has been in Italy for 10 years, and since the collapse of the Soviet Union, there have been very few major events in Europe, and when they do, they have been concentrated in Eastern Europe, next to Russia.
But Frank knows very well that Russia's seemingly strong president is actually trying his best to revive the economy that has become a puddle of mud since the collapse of the Soviet Union, polar bears are always showing their teeth and claws, seemingly very powerful, but in fact they are old, as long as Europeans do not take the initiative to provoke this aging polar bear, nothing big will happen in Eastern Europe.
What's more, it's in Italy, and now the CIA's power is also concentrated in the Middle East, so for Frank, the CIA director in Italy, his daily job is to drink coffee, read the newspaper, and occasionally visit members of the mafia family.
Compared with Russia, Italy, a European power that participated in two world wars and lost two wars, has already embarked on the road of decline, and most European countries are the same, if they do not unite, I am afraid they will not have much say in the world.
The only thing that excites Frank in Italy is Serie A, a country that doesn't play well in terms of wars, but when it comes to playing football, it's definitely one of the best in the world.
Unfortunately, Frank recently received an order from Bob, the former head of Europe and now the director of the CIA Deputy Director's Office for Strategic Asian Studies, to be cryptographic, meaning that Deputy Director Bob didn't want anyone until he had done the job.
Frank, who had long since loosened his bones, was immediately excited, and his mind was nostalgic for ten years ago.
But when he saw the briefing, he was dumbfounded, Bob just ordered him to protect a woman, at that time Frank thought that this woman had some reputation, but after investigation, this was still a Chinese woman, although she looked very good, but there was a scar on her forehead, which was said to have been shot.
Other than that, Frank couldn't find anything that interested him, which meant that the woman was just an ordinary Chinese woman, and then there was no more.
But Frank still wouldn't disobey the orders of his old boss and sent almost all of the CIA's elite agents in Italy to protect this Chinese woman who traveled all day long.
But Frank knows very well that Bob is a checkpoint person, may be merry and happy when performing tasks, but will never betray his wife when there is no task, in Chinese words, this guy is a strict wife, but in fact, he loves his wife very much, only if he loves her, he will be afraid of her on the surface.
Sitting in an old-fashioned Buick, Frank sipping coffee and reading the newspaper, would listen to the agents once for twenty minutes to see what the woman was doing.
These days, Frank accompanies her to visit all major attractions in Europe, and her last stop will be Warsaw, Poland, where she is said to take a student to participate in the annual Chopin International Piano Competition.
She is a music teacher by profession and studied at the Vienna Conservatory, and this time she also took her student to the Vienna Conservatory.
The piano has never been in Frank's eyes, but the Chopin International Piano Competition is quite famous, Frank was thinking at the time, this woman has nothing special, that may be his specialness, the secretary of the municipal party committee of the prefecture-level city, maybe a very potential spy supported by Bob.
After figuring it out, Frank began to do his best, for people in their industry, there is no problem of figuring it out, it is very annoying, everyone likes to pursue a result, even if it is what he thinks, it is enough to calm down the mentality.
Twenty minutes later, several agents reported: "Subject is leaving the café and preparing to return to the hotel, there are no anomalies around, everything is safe." ”
"Be vigilant, today is the last day in Italy, and if something goes wrong, you're all ready to retire." Frank said.
The other side of the radio did not answer, but the agents were wary, the work in Italy was very leisurely, and they did not want to retire.
From Yu Xue walked out of the café and got into a taxi, the agents were highly nervous, it was obvious that they were all professional, and after the taxi drove away, several cars were following one after the other.
They couldn't let their guard down so quickly until they arrived at the hotel, and Frank was looking for the details of the taxi and comparing the driver's personal information, which was very easy to query in Italy, and there was no need to use any special channels, because there was a website dedicated to querying taxi information.
After the comparison was completed, Frank breathed a sigh of relief, according to the information sent back, everything was in line with the first mission, when they first started the mission, they were originally going to use agents to be taxi drivers, but later they found that if a driver appeared many times, this woman would definitely be suspicious, plus there were not many people on the Italian side, and they had all been put into it in terms of safety, so it was even more difficult to do so.
And there is no need to arrange a taxi driver, and it will not attract attention, although the Italian intelligence services are not very good, but if the CIA acts aggressively, it will still expose the target, and this is contrary to Bob's orders, Bob wants the woman not to know that they are protecting her, and he also does not want the intelligence services of other countries to know, in short, everything is kept secret.
The taxi arrived at the hotel smoothly, but when the outside attendant opened the door, no one came out, but one person walked in, and for a while all the agents were immediately vigilant, and Frank immediately received an abnormal report, almost immediately, Frank gave an order: "Stop the taxi and confirm whether the target is safe!" ”
Frank's car had already driven home, and drove back, and the agents stopped the taxi back and forth, and quickly got out of the car and opened the taxi door, only to find that in addition to the old woman who had just walked in, there was only the driver left, both of whom were frightened by this posture and were at a loss.
"The target is gone, and there is no anomaly in the car!" Agent reported.
Frank's face changed drastically, and he ordered: "Arrest the driver, activate all the agents in Milan, and at all costs, you must find her." ”
Back in the office, Frank was very anxious, and the CIA's operations were soon known to the people of the Italian Central Secret Service Investigation Agency, and several Italians quickly found Frank.
"Let them wait." Outside the interrogation room, Frank looked at the taxi driver with an anxious expression.
Less than half an hour after their return, they used all the most expeditious means to interrogate the taxi driver, but they soon found out that the driver was not lying, and the only useful information was that the taxi driver had been given 100 euros to pass by at a certain junction and rush to the hotel to pick up a guest.
Frank immediately became vigilant, and then investigated the traffic information at the intersection through special channels, when they followed the taxi, when they turned a corner, two cars with the same license plate appeared, but because of the visual blind spot, they didn't see it before and after, but in such a short period of ten seconds, the two cars were exchanged, and the car taxi they followed had gone to another road, and the driver they arrested became the object of their tracking.
At that time, no one expected that there would be any accidents, so they were not sure whether there was anyone in the taxi, and the glass of the taxi was the kind of reverse glass that could not be seen from the outside and could be seen from the inside, so this small mistake prompted them to be tricked.
The quality of professionalism allowed Frank to immediately use special channels to investigate the surveillance video of all the streets in Milan, and quickly sent people over to track it down, and soon the agents sent a report, saying that the car had been found, and the original license plate was applicable, and there was no one inside, but they were searching.
As the CIA's head snake in Italy, Frank quickly learned that someone had set him in a trap, and the taxi driver, who had yellow skin and a Japanese-like accent, finally summoned some more useful information.
"Even the targets I protect dare to rob, this group of Japanese pigs is becoming more and more rampant." Getting this result, Frank sneered and ordered: "Every Japanese company in Milan should give me a visit, especially those special places." ”
"What about the Italians?" The subordinate asked.
"How?" Frank thought for a moment and said, "This is their territory, we have to give them some face, right, hand them over, make sure he doesn't tell us the interrogation records, and tell the Italians that the Japanese are spying on their intelligence, and shake out the dirty things that the Japanese have done, let them do it first, and we will watch from behind, remember, our only purpose is the Chinese woman, I don't want her to be hurt in any way, and if the target is injured, I will destroy all the Japanese intelligence networks in Italy." ”
As a result, the Italians got the taxi driver, but they did not get any useful information from the taxi driver, but the three major Italian intelligence services suddenly received information that the Japanese were hiding commercial spies in well-known Italian companies, and the news also exposed all the secret Japanese bases in Milan.
For the Italian intelligence officers who had been inactive for a long time, this was a great opportunity, so an inexplicable intelligence war between the Italians and the Japanese began, and the Italian branch of the CIA watched from the sidelines, waiting for an opportunity to find the real target