Chapter Twenty-Five: The Formation of Suspicions
Li Xiaoning is an assistant military attache at the embassy, and his job on the surface is actually to liaise and communicate with the US counter-terrorism intelligence department. But in reality, there is really nothing to do in this official job of his. Whether it is ideology or social system, the two countries are completely different, and in addition, national interests are involved, so the agents of China and the United States always have a little resentment when they look at each other, so they will not be reluctant to "exchange" the information they have worked so hard to get to each other.
The common language of the intelligence community in China and the United States is limited to terrorist organizations that rise and fall from time to time, and in fact, the content of anti-terrorism intelligence is extremely limited, so in addition to socializing with the heads of Washington's anti-terrorism department, Li Xiaoning is basically thinking about how to act in front of the CIA and FBI counterintelligence personnel most of the time.
When it comes to bureaucracy and bloated institutions, Americans are no better than China, especially when it comes to counterterrorism. In addition to the CIA, the FBI, and the wiretapping NSA, there are also the Department of Homeland Security (HSD), the Department of Energy (responsible for dealing with nuclear terrorists), the State Department, the Treasury Secret Service (which is also responsible for the president's security), and even the DEA (Narcotics Administration, which is responsible for counternarcotics). Socializing among the bureaucrats of so many departments, Li Xiaoning's schedule is still full.
There are three main departments that manage US counterintelligence affairs: the CIA's counterintelligence division, the FBI's counterintelligence division, and the NSA's domestic eavesdropping division. The CIA's way of obtaining counterintelligence capabilities is mainly to infiltrate the intelligence agencies of the countries where the spies are sent, and there are only a handful of people in China who know about this task, so Li Xiaoning does not have to worry about problems in this regard. The NSA, on the other hand, used guò to install some bugging devices in the Chinese embassy, or intercept and decipher telephone calls and e-mails to collect counterintelligence information. So, focus on dealing with the FBI.
In fact, when Li Xiaoning first came to the United States, he was targeted by the FBI Counterintelligence Division, and until now, as soon as Li Xiaoning leaves the embassy. F.B.I. agents would alternately monitor him in cars. Li Xiaoning's level is not high or low, there are six people responsible for monitoring him, but since 911, the US intelligence department has been greatly expanded, and the personnel have dropped very much, as long as Li Xiaoning wants to, these six people can't look down on him at all. What's really troublesome is that the F.B.I. agents will follow Li Xiaoning every moment he leaves the embassy, and if they rashly shake off the tracking, it will arouse their suspicions.
However, Li Xiaoning still has a very good way to deal with these novices who are newer than himself. Li Xiaoning specially called Dai Yimin out, acted as a cover, and began to go to the mall endlessly, letting those agents and gentlemen accompany them.
In this world, there is no normal man who likes to go shopping, and neither are those FBI agents who are busy with work and are highly nervous. Li Xiaoning also doesn't like shopping, but he is very interested in playing with his American counterparts and rivals, so he fully stimulates Dai Yimin's desire to shop or go shopping, making her happily spend a lot of time wandering between the shelves, torturing the patience of FBI agents and their fragile nerves.
After accompanying Li Xiaoning to visit every slightly larger mall or market in Washington, the FBI agents showed the irritability and slackness that Li Xiaoning hoped for. Some agents even began to concentrate on picking up the goods in the supermarket, and queued up behind Li Xiaoning and them to pay the money. When he saw the milk powder and diapers in the hands of one of the female detectives, Li Xiaoning smiled. He understood that they were increasingly losing their professional sensitivity.
Li Xiaoning wants this effect, he wants the FBI to turn a blind eye to his travel and slack off. Moreover, he believes that with the ability of the FBI, it can be easily found out that Dai Yimin is not a person from the Huaxia government at all, let alone an intelligence agent, but just a lover of Li Xiaoning.
In this way, it won't be long before these FBI agents will unconsciously have a mindset, and when they see Li Xiaoning and Dai Yimin appearing together, they think they are going to buy or take a walk. Of course, this is only part of a series of plans for Li Xiaoning.
On this day, Li Xiaoning went out alone to run errands, and on the way back to the embassy, he saw a very chic shop, so he got out of the car and went to have a look. Don't look at the small shop, but the clocks sold in this small shop are quite beautiful and not too expensive.
Li Xiaoning chatted with the shopkeeper of the shop for a few words and told him that he wanted to buy some gifts for his wife as gifts. The enthusiastic shopkeeper recommended several couple's watches to Li Xiaoning, and Li Xiaoning took a fancy to one of them and decided to buy it. However, when Li Xiaoning was about to take out the money, he found that he was in a hurry and did not bring money and credit cards, so he had to ask the shopkeeper to save the two watches, and he would come back to pick them up the next day.
The next day, Li Xiaoning went to the small store as promised and picked up the watch that he had fancied the day before.
This matter seems to be just a very normal trivial matter, but it is actually a trap deliberately arranged by Li Xiaoning. He deliberately gave the FBI agents a day, which was obviously long enough for the agents.
Li Xiaoning can be sure that the couple has been installed with an eavesdropping device by FBI agents in the watch, and returned to the embassy to find a technician to test it.
As a result, Li Xiaoning began a special broadcast to the FBI agents, and through his casual chats with Dai Yimin, he let the FBI agents know the purpose of his visit to the United States -- he is not a spy agent, he came to the United States to gild, and with the aura of a diplomat, he can have broader prospects in the political circles after he returns. But these contents repeatedly and imperceptibly reached the ears of FBI agents. In order to better paralyze his peers, Li Xiaoning also deliberately revealed some secrets - he maintained a sexual relationship with Dai Yimin and Dai Yimin's boss at the same time.
Of course, in order to prevent leakage, Li Xiaoning still locks this watch in the cabinet, and only takes it out for "broadcast time".
Of course, he will not hesitate to bring it out when he is socializing with the officials of the US anti-terrorist department.
On this day, Li Xiaoning took the watch to visit the CIA's Langley headquarters (this is not a big deal, in order to do public relations work in the United States, the CIA will also regularly open the non-confidential area of its headquarters to the public, but Li Xiaoning can go deeper), and it is not surprising that the CIA technicians detected the bugging.
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