Chapter XXVI
The CIA's technology was not covered, and it soon became clear that the bugging device Li Xiaoning was wearing was from their own system. The CIA agents are not stupid, and they know that Li Xiaoning is being targeted by his peer FBI.
Li Xiaoning continued to wear the watch as if he didn't know it, and talked with the CIA counterterrorism officer about various anti-terrorist classified information. The other party was anxious to scold his mother.
The FBI and the CIA are both intelligence agencies of the U.S. government, but these two bureaus have never dealt with each other, and as the two pillars of U.S. national security, the secret wrestling between the two has lasted for decades, and in some cases even endangered U.S. national security.
The tension between these two spy agencies can be traced back to Edgar during World War II. Hoover's FBI and William? Donovan's Strategic Intelligence Agency (the predecessor of the CIA) looked down on each other.
The subsequent JFK assassination, Watergate scandal and a series of other serious incidents were caused by the discord between the FBI and the CIA.
In particular, after entering the 90s of the 20th century, the espionage cases within the CIA and the FBI further deteriorated the relationship between the two sides, resulting in problems in communication, and finally led to the intelligence failure of the "9/11 incident".
After entering the 21st century, the infighting between the two spy agencies has intensified, and the FBI has directly pulled down CIA Director Petraeus.
To this day, the C.I.A. is still seen by the F.B.I. as an intellectual, wine-drinking, pipe-smoking, and sometimes cold-hearted person, and the C.I.A. sees the F.B.I. as a cigar-smoking, beer-drinking, door-knocking cop.
Now that the FBI's bugging device has actually entered the CIA's territory, how can the CIA endure it?
As soon as Li Xiaoning left with his front foot, the CIA came up to the FBI door with his back foot. The FBI hasn't eavesdropped on Li Xiaoning's side for a while. Now that the CIA has been exerting pressure, he has no choice but to relax the surveillance of Li Xiaoning.
On this day, Li Xiaoning once again made an appointment with Dai Yimin to press the road, and just came to a secluded place, he encountered a robbery with a gun. Facing the muzzle of the gun, Li Xiaoning was very cooperative, first identified his identity, and then gave all the cash on his body to the other party. But the other party still didn't give up, and threatened with a gun, and robbed Li Xiaoning and Dai Yimin of the couple watch on their wrists.
The next day, the FBI people came to the door, saying that they had caught the gangsters who robbed Li Xiaoning, recovered the lost property, and returned the watch to Li Xiaoning intact.
Li Xiaoning smiled, he knew that the watch must be clean now. Now is the time to engage with Mr. Jackson.
At this time, Ambassador Feng also held his own birthday party in a timely manner. Invite senior leaders of the U.S. government.
During the U.S. election, several senior government officials turned down the invitation of the Chinese embassy and only sent their own senior aides or lower-ranking officials to attend. For example, the secretary of state sent an assistant secretary of state for Asia-Pacific affairs; As for National Security Advisor Kevin? Lynch, of course, sent his assistant Tom? Jackson.
In recent years, China's position in the world has become more and more important, and the ambassador to the United States celebrates his birthday, and there are naturally not a few people who come to cheer. On the day of the banquet, more than 100 high-ranking diplomats from embassies in the United States and well-known figures from the political and economic circles of the United States came.
After Feng Hong gave a welcome speech, the guests were fascinated by the sumptuous snacks and beautiful classical music of the embassy.
As an assistant to the military attaché, Li Xiaoning's status is neither high nor low, and he is also responsible for anti-terrorism intelligence work, so it is natural for him to take the opportunity to get acquainted with the intelligence officers of various countries. Tom? Jackson, as the US national security adviser, is naturally also a befriender. So the greetings between the two did not attract too much attention from others. After all, the two just shook hands, exchanged a few words and walked away again.
Of course, Li Xiaoning would not be stupid enough to ask Jackson for information in front of everyone, just now it could only be regarded as the first connection, when he shook hands with Jackson, he handed over a note, which stated that there was a USB flash drive and the password of the USB flash drive in Jackson's pocket. In the USB flash drive, Li Xiaoning wrote down in detail the next instructions to Jackson.
With the rapid development of science and technology, the work of spies has become many times more difficult than before, and it is now impossible to pretend to meet them in the park and hide the microfilm that is related to their fate in the depths of the woods, as spies did in the past. There are surveillance cameras everywhere in Washington, and Li Xiaoning has no chance to meet privately with a high-ranking person like Jackson.
As for the behavior of making phone calls and sending e-mails, it is even more undesirable. There is a department in the United States called the Department of Homeland Security, or NSA for short. The main role of the NSA is surveillance. It has been operating for decades based on the principle that if a foreign target can be monitored in any way, the NSA should monitor it as long as it has any conceivable use, whether it is current or future. Especially after 911, the NSA used a lot of experience in domestic surveillance.
The NSA employs 35,000 people and spends $10.8 billion annually. Huge funds and advanced technology and equipment allow them to listen to any telephone in the United States, they record the sound signals of all the targets that need attention, and process the calls they intercept through the guò giant computer, no matter what phone the target uses, mobile phones, home phones, public telephones, as long as there is a sound signal that matches the voice of the target person, it will be located and processed. Even if it is not a pre-collected voice signal from the target person, if a keyword such as "explosion", "secret", "national security" or so on, appears in the call, it will be recorded and processed.
Li Xiaoning and Jackson, one a foreign intelligence agent and the other a senior national security official, have no reason not to be on the N.S.A.A.'s watch list. Therefore, it is even more difficult for two people to exchange messages.
However, China's scientific and technological development is not covered, although because of financial problems, it certainly cannot be compared with the Americans in terms of scale, but in terms of high-precision technology, it is no worse than the Americans. Especially when it comes to spy equipment, sometimes it's a little better.
Now Li Xiaoning is going to use these high-tech things. He told Jackson what to do next in the previous USB stick, and now all he needed to do was wait for Jackson to follow the instructions.
Early the next morning, after confirming that no one was following him, Li Xiaoning drove to a bank near the city center and put some things in the safe he rented. Half an hour later, a Chevrolet sedan pulled up in front of the bank, and Jackson got out of the car, got into the bank, and left there ten minutes later.
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