Barney is an FBI agent specializing in investigations into the use of illegal means by East Asian countries to spy on U.S. state secrets. More recently, they have focused on the investigation of U.S. infiltration and intelligence gathering by the eastern red powers.

Of course, Barney knows that in his own heart. Intelligence gathering, similar to this kind of country-to-country intelligence gathering, can happen between any country. He himself knew that in his unit, there were also other departments responsible for investigating the US allies' reconnaissance of US intelligence. For example, France, for example, England and Germany. Even for the intelligence activities carried out by Israel, the most ironclad ally of the United States, the FBI has a special department and special personnel responsible for investigating and preventing it.

As for the United States, it naturally spies on all of his allies and non-allies, but that is not the responsibility of Barney's department. The CIA is responsible for that piece. It's a work organization made up of people who are more elite than the FBI employees. Barney didn't want to admit it, though.

In addition to the CIA, there is another department in the United States that is more easily overlooked called the NSA, or the National Security Agency. This department is also an intelligence department. But rather than sending agents out on missions, the NSA's intelligence gathering work is carried out more by electronic means. For example, telephone tapping; Another example is the interception of emails. In later generations, there was a "prism" plan that was exposed to the world because of the defection of an employee, and the "prism" plan was led by the NSA.

For Barney, of course. What the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. did was not his concern. Although some of his colleagues had previously worked for both organizations and later transferred to the FBI. But he only knows what he does.

They had received a tip-off that the red power was likely to use this time to intensify its infiltration into the United States and steal American state secrets. In this regard, the result of the FBI's assessment of this intelligence is classified as C-level management, that is, the level of control and prudence. This level is not particularly advanced and belongs to the regular level. But it also requires the FBI to take action in response. So they devised a plan to guard against the intelligence gathering of the red power in all dimensions.

Of course, it is not an easy task to find intelligence gathering that can be captured alive on the spot. Because at this stage, they don't know what specific goals the Chinese Congress is taking action against. And due to the fact that the current level of intelligence is not enough. They were unable to mobilize additional resources to support the round-up. Therefore, it is even more impossible to catch Huaguo's spies on the spot. Although they made a lot of sorties during this time, none of them were fruitful. This also put a lot of pressure on their group. Everyone was unhappy that they had been unable to open the written paper for a long time.

Barney's superior,, was the one who was most directly under pressure. And Heyman, of course, was not idle, but passed on such a pressure to his subordinates. Barney, for example, hasn't been able to officially leave work for many days. They were asked to find the Chinese mole lurking in the continental United States in the shortest possible time.

People are also quick and wise under pressure. For example, when Barney and are faced with the current pressure, they think of simply ignoring the origin. Directly target the output.

Oh, yes. If you don't know what the other side's main goal is, so you can't take action directly at the scene of the crime, then it is better to simply strengthen control along the border. Anyway, if they do find something useful, they don't necessarily just stay in the United States. If it is important information, it must be sent back to China as soon as possible, and that is the main purpose of intelligence gathering.

When Barney and thought of such a breakthrough, they both felt that it would always be more promising to set up control on the border than to look for those unreliable first sites.

Of course. To enter the national border layout, they need to have a good coordination with the airport security and CPB. Don't underestimate these three simple departments. In any country with a sound legal system and well-established institutions, it is quite a sad thing to plan such a cross-sectoral and coordinated action. Because the interests of the various departments are not aligned.

Airport security guards, for example, are not interested in solving this kind of espionage case because they have no performance in it. And the work content that exceeds the responsibility often makes the airport passengers feel inconvenient and makes themselves subject to complaints. So, getting them to cooperate with the FBI is a very challenging thing to do. and Barney put a lot of effort into it, and even asked their immediate superiors to come forward and coordinate with the CPB and the airport before they said that they were mobilized to cooperate with them in this operation.

In fact, there are natural disadvantages for China to carry out espionage operations against the United States. Due to significant racial differences, Chinese are significantly different from Americans in appearance. Therefore, it is not easy for a Chinese to gather intelligence in the United States. This is different from the United States. The United States is a country of immigrants, and there are many Asians in the country, and there are enough manpower to engage in intelligence work against China. What's more, China has had traitors leading the way since ancient times, so the intelligence work between the two countries is not symmetrical. Both Barney and believe that once they have pulled the battle line to the airport, they will soon have a real big discovery.

But when they actually arrived at the airport, they realized that their previous ideas seemed a little naïve. Although the Chinese in this era did not have enough funds to travel abroad as they did a few years later, due to the sheer number of Chinese students, there were not many students entering and leaving the United States, especially the West Coast, in this era. It is also difficult for airports and the FBI and CPB to rationalize the checks they use to detect espionage that clearly go beyond the requirements of ordinary airport security. So they only worked at the airport for a short period of time, and due to passenger complaints, the airport asked them to set targets more specifically. So their previous idea of conducting inspections for all Chinese was hampered.

Shen Yiyi was the first Chinese to enter the United States after they were asked by the airport to narrow the scope of inspection, and the Chinese side used the VIP special channel.

Barney had always felt that if there was any intelligence hole in the airport, the VIP special channel and the special treatment of the "diplomatic parcel" were an obvious one. Because there is a convention of not inspecting. If he himself is engaged in intelligence smuggling, then it would be foolish for him not to take advantage of it. It's just that this special courtesy has been determined in the form of international conventions, although the United States has also willfully ignored it in the past. But to do that is not something that can be implemented with a casual word from a person of your own level. The result proposed by Heyman is only that Heyman allows him to find a way to try it within a limited range, and if something goes wrong, he must stop.

When Shen Yiyi entered the country, he was not inspected by Barney. But when leaving the country, according to the results of the negotiation between Barney and, Shen Yiyi not only took the VIP special channel, but also had a box of "diplomatic mail". With these two points in line with the standard. Barney naturally said that he moved to pull CPB and airport security with him, and he was going to turn over Shen Yiyi one by one.

Therefore, this is also Shen Yiyi's luck a little back. In addition, the prediction of the person behind the scenes this time also went a little wrong, which is equivalent to sending Shen Yiyi to the muzzle of the US imperialist gun one by one. That's why Shen Yiyi was called to the baggage inspection room under such an excuse and waited for so long.

What made Barney and a little difficult was that at their own behest. After Shen Yiyi opened the box. Even the gift wrapping in the box was completely opened, but it didn't reveal the slap he wanted to catch. Isn't this the possibility that his previous insistence will become a joke? Neither Barney nor felt unacceptable. The two of them are thinking about whether they want to use some special means. Anyway, this conventional inspection method seems to be unsuccessful. It's just that under the watchful eye of the CPB and airport security, it is much less autonomous than when the FBI handled the case on its own. The two were not allowed to repeatedly call their superiors and ask for authorization. And the superiors are not so easy to find. So in front of Shen Yiyi, the two kept calling.

In terms of CPB and airport security, although they would not agree with the FBI to take further unconventional means to conduct inspections, they also cooperated to waste Shen Yiyi's time in this small room. It has played an objective role in "retaining people".

If everything goes well, without Shen Yiyi knowing. It is really possible that Barney and found enough evidence from Shen Yiyi's big box to convict Shen Yiyi and China. In that case, Shen Yiyi and the masterminds behind her will plant a big somersault on American soil. It's just a pity if it's just if. Howard's presence directly disrupts Barney and Heyman's arrangement and plans.

In addition to the government department, there are two levels of government in the American circle of power, namely the legislature and the judiciary. Leave aside the U.S. Supreme Court, because the justices of the Supreme Court are nominated by the president and then voted on by Congress. The U.S. legislature has a lot of power.

Congress may require the head of the executive branch to appear before Congress for questioning. Domestically, government budgets can also be reviewed and frozen. The country may also authorize special investigations by the inspection department for certain incidents. It can be said that in the United States, Congress is a very powerful organ of power.

The U.S. Congress is divided into two tiers: the House of Representatives and the Senate. Among them, the House of Representatives is the first step for those who are interested in politics to enter the political arena. Senators, on the other hand, are stepping stones to the head of government and to the presidency. This is the special political ecology of the United States. This may be so because the number of senators in the United States is much smaller than the number of representatives. The Senate, on the other hand, has as much power as the House of Representatives. In such a situation, the senator gets much more exposure than the representative and is more likely to be remembered by voters. You can imagine that our people's congress has thousands of people's deputies, and you remember how many of them lived; And our Senate has nine elders, so you must be familiar with them.

And Senator Bernstein of California, who is close to the Morgan family, is obviously a very wise choice for Howard, the successor carefully cultivated by the Morgan family. Bernstein has been re-elected to three terms as a senator representing California. This means the richness of his social network in California. And now Bernstein is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, directly facing the intelligence services of several major governments. After receiving a call from the children of his big benefactor's family, Bernstein naturally made a phone call and used his influence.

If it were an ordinary call, Bernstein would not be so energetic. But Howard is different. Bernstein, who was good friends with Morgan Sr., knew how much Morgan Sr. valued his little grandson. Obviously, despite all the troubles he had known before, Bernstein was still optimistic that the boy would eventually emerge as the successor of the Morgan family. This means that the wealth in his hands in the future is hundreds of millions, and he can really be called rich. And this is a huge temptation for a man who aspires to compete for the presidency.

What's more, Bernstein had already heard Howard say that the Chinese girl who was detained by the FBI had cooperated at the airport to fully open the suspected luggage as required. And then left aside when the FBI still didn't find enough evidence. According to Bernstein's analysis, the risk of implicating himself has been reduced sufficiently.

Bernstein himself was political. He believed that one's success depended primarily on personal struggle, but it was also necessary to take into account the course of history, which is what is called chance. Being able to make the potential successor of the Morgan family ask for himself is a big opportunity for him. As a lawyer, he knows that what matters is not what the suspect does, but what the part that is presented to others does. At this point in time, Bernstein felt that his intervention was timely.

So, Barney and soon received a call from their immediate boss. The boss on the other end of the line no longer had the support they had before. Instead, the man is now demanding that they be released immediately and return to the FBI to face an investigation into the misuse of power. (To be continued.) )