The SS-level intelligence in Li Zhen's mouth is a kind of intelligence level division.

As a commodity, intelligence circulates in the underground world, and it is also subdivided into different levels, according to most current national secrecy regulations, from low to high from E to SSS eight levels.

E level is the lowest, the corresponding intelligence is what the public knows, these contents are no longer considered intelligence, you spend ten dollars or a cigarette on the side of the road to chat with people or find someone to inquire about it, this level of intelligence does not have much value, such as a city A to build a building somewhere, or to rectify an area, but top intelligence analysts can analyze useful data from these useless intelligence.

D-level intelligence is the penultimate level, which can be roughly understood as regional news, such as an incident in city A, many people in city A know, but little known in city B next door, this kind of information is classified as class D intelligence, but due to the highly developed Internet, the value of this type of information is not high.

C-level intelligence is mostly intelligence information that ordinary people can't access, such as police investigation files, company bids, investment plans, etc., this kind of intelligence has a certain value and can be sold for some price, most commercial spies sell C-level intelligence, but generally speaking, the value of C-level intelligence is not very high, because it can be obtained through relationship operation.

Class B intelligence is already classified intelligence, and it is also the most information sold by brokers, the internal of some national organizations, meeting memos or the adjustment plans of some large enterprises, some black materials of world celebrities, etc., Class B intelligence due to restrictions, the grade will also be a little uneven, and the price fluctuates greatly, such as Apple's iphone13 design drawings and Scarlett's colors today belong to B-level intelligence, but the people who need it are different, and they can be sold at a high price.

Class A intelligence, which is already 99% of the world's. 9 people have no access to or know the news, which can be understood as the research results of some secret research institutes, the progress, the agenda of the leaders of most countries or the contracts signed privately by some countries.

As for the S-class, SS class and the highest-level SSS type of intelligence, although there will be a lot of it every year, but the news of the real buyers and sellers is not clear to everyone, this kind of intelligence is very important, these information may cause a regional conflict, a coup d'état, etc., such as the coup d'état before the local chicken, some people took the local chicken to participate in the coup military information for sale, and were bought at a high price, as a result, Kemal's last glory ended, the glorious tradition of the local chicken revolution ended, and it was reduced to ......

The specific division of the three levels of S, SS, SSS cannot be determined in words, according to the different people who need it, the level will be different, just like the bearded hiding position can be sold as S-class intelligence, but when you meet American buyers, you can sell it as SSS-level intelligence, after all, Americans are in urgent need.

On top of this, there is also the intelligence level of SSS+, this type of intelligence is classified as top secret, the most typical is the truth about Kennedy's assassination, this is the top secret file, the people in the know are basically all gone, and there are no more than five people in the world who know the truth.

At the same time, intelligence trading is very complex, with a complex process, an intelligence merchant sells information, but often cannot verify the authenticity of this information, their task is to be responsible for collecting information, and then find suitable buyers, and buyers through the purchase of information analysis, to find useful information.

This is a traditional means of intelligence trading, which has been used until the eighties and nineties of the last century, but with the more and more developed information technology in the world, the timeliness of intelligence has become shorter and shorter, buyers need to be in a hurry, and sellers need accurate information, so intelligence brokers like Li Zhen were born.

The work content of an intelligence broker is more complicated, and it will be roughly divided into three categories, the first type is to buy intelligence, for example, intelligence agent A has obtained the latest transfer information of the US military, and the target is country Y, this information will only be valuable if it is sold to country Y, but the newspaper dealer cannot contact the intelligence personnel of country Y, at this time, brokers like Li Zhen are needed to be middlemen and facilitate transactions, such transactions are Li Zhen's favorite way to trade, safe, efficient, and have a lot of commissions.

The second is a little more complicated, the same is the latest transfer of intelligence by the US military, after the intelligence dealer gets the information, he sells it directly to Li Zhen, Li Zhen will pay a certain price to buy this intelligence according to experience, and then sell it to the intelligence dealer of country Y to earn the difference in the middle, but if you encounter a company that sells more information, or the intelligence exceeds the time limit, it will be smashed in your own hands, this kind of transaction has a certain risk, generally speaking, only a big broker will be willing to take such a risk, which can maximize the benefits.

The last one is to confirm the authenticity of the intelligence, this fee can be the intelligence merchant needs to pay Li Zhen, according to the different levels of intelligence, the price is also different, of course, generally speaking, the intelligence merchant will not take the initiative to verify the authenticity of the intelligence, most of the verification of the authenticity of the intelligence is proposed by the seller, Li Zhen can also charge a lot of fees, but compared to the second type, the profit is not very much.

Verifying the authenticity of information is the most important work done by intelligence brokers after entering the 21st century, most buyers buy ten pieces of information, at most three or four are useful, and more are useless information or false information, of course, if you buy false information, then you can only show that you are unlucky, after all, this is a shady transaction, without any legal constraints.

This also makes the intelligence agent a dangerous profession, because there is often an organization or a country behind the person who buys the intelligence, and there are not a few intelligence agents who are bleeding because of false information, just like the Russian who died in London the year before last, a double agent, and also an intelligence agent, as a result, his information fooled the emperor, and the emperor was furious......

There is also a special group that coexists with intelligence merchants, intelligence brokers, and intelligence buyers, spies, but after the 21st century, the prevention of spies in various countries has reached the maximum, and at the same time, due to the overdeveloped information and various factors, such groups of spies have also begun to show some changes.

However, these spies play more like the role of intelligence merchants, and after getting the information, they report it back and then sell it in the market, which is the main reason why a lot of information is not timely.

Espionage, intelligence brokers, and other workers seem to be unreachable to ordinary people, but many times they are hidden among ordinary people, for example, when the United States surveyed China, it used not spies, but a large number of foreign tourists who entered China.

This is also the reason why in the late 90s and early 20th century, travel groups were rampant, these people often did not even know that they were already engaged in espionage, they would be commissioned before entering the country, they would take improvised equipment to measure a certain area, and finally bring the data back to China, and finally according to the satellite footage, it would constitute a complete map, and even some of the bases hidden in the mountains were leaked at this time.

In addition, as various forums began to spring up like mushrooms after a rain, and it also became a place where some intelligence businessmen often cared for and collected information, and some people couldn't help but show off their hearts after knowing some secrets, and the result was ...... There are countless examples of this.