The author, a talented literary researcher, wrote: Once, Pushkin was asked what the future holds for the beautiful Tatyana. Pushkin replied with annoyance: "You can ask her about this, I don't know" Li Guangyuan often talked to some mathematicians and physicists, especially after Wang Wei's agents arrested the physicists in the research room. Li Guangyuan was curious to know if scientific theorists could plan their discoveries in advance, "It's impossible," and they replied, "We just set the direction of exploration, and everything else can only be determined in the process of experimentation."

The same is exactly the case with reconnaissance work. If an action is too detailed and concrete, it risks complete failure. Because in the links that are closely related to each other, even one of them suddenly falls off, which can lead to the failure of the main aspect. So see all that might come and keep your eyes on a critical task, especially if you're on your own. Li Guangyuan believes that only by doing so can he have a greater certainty of victory.

"Alright, let's use this teacher," Li Guangyuan said to himself, "after Li Koqi was removed, he is now actually under my command unsupervised." I have already reported to my superiors that the relationship between the teacher and the former traitor has not been ascertained, and it seems that he is no longer interested in the teacher. However, after receiving the order from the headquarters, my interest in teachers grew."

Excerpt from the party member appraisal of commando leader Wu Sibao:

"In 1935 he joined the Kuomintang. A native of Jiading County, Shanghai. The character is close to the northern character, and he is resolute. Good relationship with colleagues. Be conscientious and responsible for your responsibilities. No mercy to the enemies of the nation. Shooting competition athlete, has won several awards. Loyal to the family. Social relations are innocent and undefiled. He was honored by the Commander-in-Chief"

Chang Kaishen called the captain in the middle of the night, because he slept again after drinking Shaoxing's Huadiao, and now he feels very energetic.

"This old flower carving is really different," he thought as he massaged the back of his head with his right thumb and forefinger, "and my head will explode when I drink the local flower carving, but this wine makes my mind feel lighter." I just felt a slight moan in the back of my head, which must be due to blood pressure, and it was natural."

Wu Sibao looked at Chang Kaishen with two red and swollen eyes, and then smiled slightly, his childish smile was angry when the person on his head saw it.

"My head hurts so much," he said, "that I'm looking forward to seven hours of sleep." I never thought that the pain of insomnia was the most terrible torture."

"We had a Communist spy, who used to be a very ferocious bandit, and he spoke to me that they used to make a wonderful drink from tea leaves as a drink, which was intoxicating and refreshing. Why don't we give it a try? After speaking, Chang Kaishen laughed, "Anyway, sooner or later, we will drink this kind of thing in their prison, so should we learn how to make it beforehand?" ”

Chang Kaishen believes in Wu Sibao, so whether he is joking with him or talking to him, he is very polite, but he is sincere and frank.

"Listen to me," Chang continued, "and now there's an inexplicable trouble.

Today, during the day, the director called me to meet him. These officials are all fantasists, and of course they can be whimsical, because they don't have any specific work, they give instructions, they give orders, and even the monkeys in the circus can do it. You know, the director of the bureau became suspicious and dissatisfied with Li Guangyuan"

"To whom?"

"You heard it right, it's Li Guangyuan. He's the only one in the department who makes me feel good. He never slouches and shoots, nor does he behave hysterically, nor does he pretend to be positive, he is a steady man. I don't really believe in the person who revolves around the leader, and rushes to speak at the small meeting of the General Assembly whether it is necessary or not, he is a taciturn person. I like this kind of person, if your friend is a man of few words, then he must be a real friend. But if it's an enemy, he's a real enemy. I respect such enemies. They have something to learn from them."

"I've known Li Guangyuan for eight years," Mr. Eiseman said, "and I was with him when I fought in Baoshan and the suburbs of Nanjing, and I saw his bravery in the face of bullets, and he was such a tough guy

Chang Kaishen frowned and said, "Why do you like to use these metaphorical words?" Are you tired? Leave these figurative phrases to the party leaders. We are secret agents, we should only use nouns and verbs to think, such as: 'I saw him', 'he said', 'he relayed', etc., what do you think Li Guangyuan can't be..."

"Yes," replied Wu Sibao, "I will never believe that Li Guangyuan is dishonest."

"I don't believe it either"

"Perhaps there should be a strategy to convince Lu Dafang of this"

"Why bother?" Chang Kaishen paused for a moment and replied, "What if he really wants Li Guangyuan to be a dishonest person?" Why bother convincing him? What's more, Li Guangyuan is not from us. He's the man of the Sixth Division, let their chief suffer."

"Ding Mocun will definitely ask for evidence to show him. And you also know that the commander-in-chief will definitely support him in doing so"

"By the way, by the way, why didn't you go to Xining on the same plane with Li Guangyuan last fall?"

"I never fly, Mr. Captain. I'm afraid to fly, please forgive me for this weakness, I think it would be dishonest to hide this"

"But I can't swim, I'm afraid of water," Chang Kaishen sneered. Then I massage the back of my head with my right thumb and forefinger.

"What should we do about Li Guangyuan?"

Wu Sibao shrugged his shoulders and said, "I personally believe that first of all, be 100% honest with yourself, which is the key to determining all actions and actions"

"Behavior and behavior are the same thing," Chang Kaishen said, "how I envy those who know how to carry out orders, how much I want to be able to do things according to orders, 'Be an honest person', why am I always thinking about how to be an honest person. Well, now I offer you an excellent opportunity to be an honest person once:

Take these materials," said Chang Kaishen, who pushed a few typing materials in front of Wu Sibao, "After researching, make a conclusion, a completely honest conclusion." I relied on this conclusion when I reported the results of the review to the Director."

"Why do I have to do this, Mr. Captain?" Wu Sibao asked.

Chang Kaishen laughed.

"My friend, where is your honesty? It is easy to persuade others to be honest. And each of them thinks about how to cover up their hypocrisy with honesty, how to justify themselves, and justify their actions. Am I not right? ”

"I'd rather write a report"

"What report?"

"I reported that I had known Li Guangyuan for many years, and I could do anything for him

Chang Kaishen was silent for a moment, sat on the back chair and twisted his body uneasily, and then put a piece of paper in front of Wu Sibao.

"Write it," he said, "hurry up and write it."

Wu Sibao took out the pen, pondered for a long time, how to write the first sentence, and after thinking about it, he wrote in a neat and beautiful font:

Mr. Chang Hoi Shen, Director of Division 4:

I consider Li Guangyuan, the commander of the Wing-Guards, to be a loyal comrade who is loyal to the ideas of the Nanking government and the Kuomintang Party, and I would like to allow me not to take part in the examination of his dossier.

Captain Wu Sibao

Chang Kaishen blotted the ink dry with blotting paper, read the report written by Wu Sibao twice, and said softly:

"Well, you're good. I have a lot of respect for you; I trust you very much. Wu Sibao, today's events have once again convinced me that you are a very decent person."

"Thank you"

"I have nothing to thank me, but I should thank you. All right. Now I will give you these three dossiers and write a positive comment on Li Guangyuan's work based on these materials. You don't need me to teach you, you know how to write, what: 'the art of scouting', 'the shrewdness of an investigator', 'the bravery of a real Kuomintang member', how much time do you think it takes? ”

Wu Sibao flipped through the materials and replied: "If you want to write all the materials in a beautiful and well-founded way, I would like to ask you to give me a week's time."

"Five days, no more"

"Okay.

"You should try to write about Li Guangyuan's performance in handling the work of a teacher as prominently" Speaking of this, Chang Kaishen pointed to a dossier, "Ding Mocun believes that someone is trying to contact the West through some teaching staff, such as through embassies and so on."

"Yes"

"Okay, I wish you happiness and go back quickly and sleep sweetly"

After Wu Sibao left, Chang Kaishen put the report he wrote in a special file and sat there pondering for a long time. Then he called another assistant, the captain of the brigade, Ding Hao.

"Listen to me," said Chang Kaisheng without inviting him to sit down, because Ding Hao was a young man, "I have given you a very confidential and very important task"

"Yes, Senior Captain"

"This young man is still quite motivated," Chang Kaishen pondered, "He still likes our tricks very much, and he is very happy to do it, full of energy." This guy is going to write a whole bunch of babbling, gibberish, but that's fine... So I have a handle to bargain with Li Shiqun."

"That's right," Chang Kaishen continued, "you have to study these materials carefully, this is the work of Wing Captain Li Guangyuan in the past year. The case is related to weapons of retaliation. It's about physicists, and in general, the case itself isn't very funny, but you have to do your best to study it and come to me if you have any problems."

Ding Hao was a little lacking in confidence, but he tried his best to hide this frustration, and when he was about to leave the office of his immediate boss, Chang Kaishen stopped him again and added: "You can transfer a few more files from his previous days on the front line, and check whether Li Guangyuan and Wu Sibao have met on the front line."

Secret detectives abounded in the glass-doored and window-closed buildings at the railway stations and at the docks, their eyes glued to each passenger who looked a bit like an American.

But they failed to catch the man. Several times he cleverly escaped in some hotel restaurants and suddenly appeared on the plane again. Clever and resourceful, steady, and courageous, he defeated the Japanese security services and Wang's puppet counterintelligence agency, and miraculously arrived in neutral Switzerland at the end of 1939.

The man was tall. The two eyes behind the shiny lenses of the pinch-nose glasses observe everything around them, and their eyes are so generous and kind, but at the same time very harsh. He always had an English pipe in his mouth, he was usually quiet and smiling, and when he talked to others, he always listened carefully to what they were saying, and he was quite funny when he joked, and when he said or did the wrong thing, he immediately admitted frankly that his friendly style was admired by everyone.

If Ding Mocun, Li Shiqun, and the intelligence agency of No. 76 knew who this person was, I am afraid that they would have made ten times as hard work to find a way to get him in France. It turned out that this American was Alan Dulles, a member of the US Strategic Intelligence Agency sent by General Duovan to Bern.

In Switzerland began to be rumored to be the personal representative of President Roosevelt.

Dulles published a statement in the newspaper to refute the rumors. This statement is very peculiar and mysterious. Dulles is well aware that this kind of double-material advertising is very beneficial to him. As expected, in the first few months of his arrival in Bern, a variety of people from different countries followed: bankers, athletes, diplomats, journalists, royal princes, actors, celebrities, that is, people from all over the world who could be recruited by the spy agencies of the world to act as their own spies, and the most important ones.

Before the branch of the Strategic Intelligence Agency of the city of Bern, Dulles studied the project materials of his men very carefully.

"In this blue dossier," an F.B.I. official in charge of examining and collating the case materials of these individuals explained to Dulles, "it was people who had relatives and close friends in the Axis and neutral countries."

There are two types of people in this dossier, one who was born in Germany and Europe, and the other who is born to German parents. In this document are the names of the people who have correspondence with your personnel, and in these materials"

Dulles interrupted the official with an inexplicable question: "What does all this have to do with what I have to do?" ”

"I beg your pardon"

"I'm interested in who I work with is an active member of the German-American Institute and who isn't. Is so-and-so a member of the Communist Party? Is he or she engaging in homosexuality? What is the family situation? Is the marriage strong? Does the husband suffer from alcohol stasis due to his wife's hysteria and wants to ruin this quarrelsome family? As for whether there are relatives or friends in Germany or in Italy, one of my distant relatives settled in Germany in the last century."

Unfortunately, there are too few references to this person's past in the Who's Who of IS. German counterintelligence agencies should have known about his experience earlier, but they learned too late.

Later, the subordinate department of Dingmo Village finally installed a spy in Dulles's home, and a lovely and diligent cook who worked there was an agent of the Sixth Division of the Central Security Bureau. Since then, Ding Mocun, Zhan Guoqiang, Chang Kaishen of the Secret Service, and later Yi Sipin have all learned a lot of important and interesting things from this spy, and they have learned a lot of living, visible and tangible things that are often unnoticed, composed of some trivial things in life.

For example, the agent once reported that the book that Dulles often kept on his desk and seemed to be his favorite book to read was "The Art of War." The ancient Chinese military theorist expounded the basic principles of espionage in his writings. He was talking about some of the basic methods of espionage that had been used in China since 400 B.C

Alan Dulles was particularly fond of re-reading the author's passages dealing with the most important spies in understanding the enemy.

Sun Tzu proposed five types of spies: "Dead Room", "Cause Room", "Inner Room", "Anti-Room", "Life Room"

Dulles wrote down the summaries of his readings on some cards, which were also in the hands of Zhan Guoqiang's men. Dulles wrote on a card that "Ikuma" and "Uchima" were the equivalent of what we now call "local spies."

"Anti-enemy" refers to the enemy spy captured by us, who is bribed by us and sent back to be our spy.

Alan Dulles underlined the term "dead room" with a red pencil. He admired the Chinese's incisive arguments. Sun Tzu's so-called "dead room" refers to those who are used to provide false information to the enemy. Sun Tzu called it "Death" because when the enemy found out that the information provided by these people was deliberately faked, he was bound to be killed.

What Sun Tzu refers to as "Ikuma," Dulles emphasized in his notes, is often referred to today as "infiltrated spies." They go to enemy countries, do espionage there, and then come back alive.

Sun Tzu asserted that a true scout must have all five means of espionage. He said that a scout with these five methods of espionage is equivalent to a "divine net," like a fishing net made of countless invisible but strong silk threads connected by a rope (1).

Sun Tzu's insights are quite interesting, and Dulles excerpted many of his views on cards: about counterintelligence, disinformation, psychological warfare, the security of spy officers, and so on.

Sun Tzu's espionage is a challenge to the legends of espionage in ancient Greece and Rome. At that time, espionage was largely based on the will of the demons and gods. Sun Tzu, on the other hand, believed that intelligence reconnaissance work could not be carried out by relying on ghosts and gods. In intelligence and reconnaissance work, we should rely only on people, on enemies and friends (2).

(1) Sun Tzu did not make such an analogy in the "Use of the Chapter", the original sentence is: "Five rooms only rise, I don't know its way, it is called the Divine Age, and the treasure of the human monarch is also" Here "Seed Age" means "the unpredictable enemy." It is likely that "Shenji" has been mistranslated as "Shenwang". Translator's Note.

(2) Sun Tzu's original words are: "The prophet shall not be taken from ghosts and gods, but from men, and he who knows the feelings of the enemy" means: "But to know the situation of the enemy in advance, and not to use superstitious ghosts and gods and divination to obtain ... Be sure to get it from someone who knows about the enemy."

The female agent dispatched by No. 76 also secretly photographed a Bible read by Dulles, with dense comments written by the American intelligence expert on the margins of the page. In the Bible it is said that Joshua sent two spies to the city of Jericho to spy out the real and the false (1), and Dulles made a mark. The two spies infiltrated the city of Jericho and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab. In Dulles's view, this is the first historical example of what is now known as a secret hideaway by today's professional secret agents, as he and his friends often say.

The female spy also reported to the central authorities that Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was a favorite book for Allen Dulles. He also regularly flipped through Moore Flanders and Diary of a Pandemic Year. These books were written by Daniel Defoe, who was a very good detective. Not only was he the independent organizer of a sizable spy network, but he was also the first leader of British intelligence, although these circumstances became known to the world many years after his death.

Dulles had tried to find even a vague mention of the writer as a leader of the British Empire's intelligence services in his writings, but he could not find the slightest clue. Zhan's female spies also reported that in her spare time, Alan Dulles had carefully studied the practical experience of some of the largest spy organizations in Europe in the nineteenth century and the methods they employed.

Zhan Guoqiang's special archives for intelligence agencies also collected a lot of other intelligence materials about Alan Dulles. However, the leaders of the Nanking government were never able to compile a rigorous and accurate biography of this far-sighted reconnaissance expert of the mid-twentieth century.

There's nothing extraordinary about Dulles' experience. After obtaining his MFA at the age of twenty-three, he worked as a missionary in India and China, and in May 1916 took up his first diplomatic post in Vienna. In Paris he worked for a time in a delegation led by Woodrow Wilson, and then he accepted a special assignment to work in Switzerland and Austria, trying to preserve the survival of Austria-Hungary. In 1918 he hatched a conspiracy for the first time, and if Dulles could carry it through to the end, it would be a great conspiracy. But the events in November in Communist-led Germany thwarted the conspiracy. The Habsburg monarchy, which was supposed to be the "anti-epidemic line" and "iron shield" for Western countries to prevent the spread of Bolshevism in Europe, was completely bankrupt.

A year later, in 1919, Dulles was appointed First Secretary of the U.S. Embassy in Germany. While working at the embassy at 7 Wilhelmstrasse, he came into direct contact with figures whose mission was to oppose Bolshevism in Europe. It was here that he introduced the U.S. Chargé d'Affaires in Germany, Dresel, who became acquainted with General Hoffmann, who formulated the first German plan for an attack on Moscow.