After receiving the information from Tianjin, Ogawa Daisa realized that his defeat to the Intelligence Department of the War Department (the second department of the General Staff Headquarters) was purely a non-war crime.

Thinking about it, the Second Department has never attached much importance to the intelligence of the United States, and the Sixth Lesson (Anglo-American Section) is only eight or nine big cats and kittens (before the outbreak of the Great Plains War, the Army Intelligence Agency paid much less attention to the intelligence of Britain and the United States than to the Soviet Union and China. The Anglo-American Section has only one section chief, one senior staff officer, and six staff officers, and is divided into the American class, the British class, and the southern class. At the beginning of the war, they didn't even have a map of the operations in the Great Plains, and the main work of the southern squad for a long time was to draw maps and compile local chronicles for the Pacific islands), and if the intelligence department of the Navy Command Department couldn't even win them, then Ogawa Osa should really go to seppuku.

In Xiao Chuan's view, the fact that the second department and the sixth class were able to enter the Hughes Aircraft Company ahead of him this time was purely a blind cat that ran into a dead mouse and took shit luck.

Because the middle management of the Hughes Aircraft Company named Andrew Mason that they bought was not a spy they had cultivated themselves. It is the result of the former head of the Seventh Section (China Section) of the Second Department, the current head of the Mei organ in Shanghai, and the highest representative of the Japanese army in Wang's puppet government, Lieutenant General Kage Zhenzhao, who inadvertently intervened in the willows more than ten years ago.

It turned out that this Andrew Mason had served in the U.S. Marine Corps in Tianjin in his early years, and was a sergeant major in charge of barracks logistics procurement. Before joining the Army, Mason was just a grocery store guy in Fort Worth, Texas, and didn't go to school. But he's a little clever, and he's bold, thick-skinned, and very good at getting things done.

Due to the frequent dealings with local merchants and the super-national treatment enjoyed by the "foreign lords" in China, Mason not only used his position to make a lot of money, but also often acted as a broker to contribute to the prosperity of Sino-US trade (mostly smuggling). Over the past few years, Mason has not only accumulated a lot of net worth, but also mixed up the situation in Tianjin.

After retiring, Mason was naturally unwilling to give up his "career" in China, and simply married a local White Russian girl and stayed in China. In the beginning, Mason was just a second-class dealer, and his business was very miscellaneous, such as cloth, kerosene, western medicine, rubber, antiques, and machines.

If you want to talk about China in the twenties and thirties, what was the most profitable? Naturally, it is the arms business, especially the smuggling of arms. But Mason, despite his background in the U.S. military, is only a small sergeant major. And he has no background in the United States, so naturally he has no way, so he can only rely on matchmaking to make some hard-earned money.

But Mason was not reconciled, and after several years of hard work, he finally got on the line with an American arms dealer, John's cousin Reilly. With his network in China, Mason soon became a key partner of Reilly, and helped Reilly expand his business to Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In 1928, while engaged in arms smuggling in Shanghai, Mason accidentally made a mistake and fell into the hands of Japanese intelligence agencies in Shanghai. At that time, the military attache of the consulate in Shanghai, Kage Satsuaki, felt that Mason was an American and did not want to make things too big. Second, he felt that his identity network was still a little useful, so he let Mason go and developed it into his own downline, allowing him to help collect intelligence on China's arms black market and some local armed forces.

Judging from the information sent back from Tianjin, Kagezo Zhenzhao actually didn't take Mason too seriously. Although he has not broken this line for many years, he will occasionally assign some small tasks to Mason so that Mason can earn a little money.

But "industry insiders" like Ogawa know in their hearts that Mason is just a trick of Kagezo Zhenzhao. In fact, this kind of thing Ogawa himself has not less. The purpose is to be prepared in addition to multiple intelligence channels. More often than not, it is just to "falsely report performance" so that it can be used as a name to declare more expenses to the above.

After all, it always takes money to train downlines and develop spy networks or something, don't you? As for how much of this money is actually spent in the end, that's another matter.

Who would have thought that things have unexpectedly changed recently.

After the July 7 Incident in 1937, with the large-scale withdrawal of American forces in China, Mason also packed his bags and returned to his hometown in the United States with his family for security reasons.

Originally, with Mason's net worth, he could have bought a ranch in his hometown of Texas and become a rich man with peace of mind. But Mason, who has seen a big scene outside, is willing to go to the countryside to live a dull life of his wife and children on the hot kang. He quickly set his sights on the burgeoning speculative business of crude oil futures in Texas, and in 1940 he managed to toss himself out of the bank.

At that time, Hughes Aircraft Company was opening a branch base in Fort Worth to build a large aircraft manufacturing plant. Desperate, Mason hired an executive position at the factory through his old friend Reilly, mainly responsible for dealing with suppliers from all over the world.

This is undoubtedly a drowsy pillow for the Japanese army intelligence agencies, which are suffering from the inability to obtain information on the B-24 bomber. They soon reconnected with Mason, who was in desperate need of money, and through him they obtained a lot of photos and information about the B-24 bomber.

"Sugita guy is really lucky, but the pattern is too small." Ogawa threw the information back on the table and muttered disdainfully.

The new head of the Sixth Division of the Second Division, Sugida Ichichi (a pro-American faction in the Japanese Army and served as chief of staff of the Ground Self-Defense Force after the war), and Ogawa are also old "friends", and the two worked together at the embassy in the United States for a period of time four years ago.

For this junior in the intelligence community, who is almost 10 years younger than himself, Xiaochuan has never been very eye-catching.

Let's take the case of Hughes Aircraft Company as an example, with such a good foundation laid by Akira Kagesa, Sugita only bought some photo materials from Mason and finished it.

In Ogawa's view, Sugita is simply destroying the heavens. Is it enough to just buy the deputy manager of a factory, or a deputy manager who has no access to core information? If it were him, he would definitely continue to dig along the Mason line. For example, the Reilly who was able to introduce Mason to Hughes Aircraft Company should definitely not be let go.

In the United States, the intelligence network of the Japanese Navy is not half as strong as that of the Army. Within a few days of the arrangement, more information about Mason was gathered to Ogawa.

"Mason, Reilly, Vanderbilt, Hughes......", "FedEx, Hughes Aircraft, Draco Defense, Kaiser Shipbuilding......" Ogawa wrote the list of names on the paper. After a long silence, he drew a heavy circle on the name of John Vanderbilt. "I didn't expect that there is such an interesting character hidden behind it."

Over the years, John has always adhered to the principle of doing things in a high-profile manner and being a low-key person. His career is thriving, but he rarely appears in public. For example, the photo of John in Ogawa's hand is still the same news picture of him when he gave a speech to Congress a few years ago.

But no matter how low-key he is, as long as someone wants to check, a lot of information can't be hidden. After all, the Vanderbilt family is already a big deal, and in addition to Draco Defense, several other companies in his hands are all listed companies.

Ogawa's intelligence forces in the United States did not have to make much effort to discover his "gold mine". Especially for the Japanese Navy, John's value as the majority shareholder of Kaiser Shipbuilding is even greater than the actual controlling shareholder of Hughes Aircraft.

"Gotta take this John Vanderbilt!" Ogawa secretly made up his mind.

Of course, he knew that it was impossible for a wealthy man of this level to be bought. Moreover, it is said that this person has been specially recruited by the US Army, so it is even more difficult to start.

However, this does not mean that he does not have the means to influence him. In many cases, it's a good idea to start with the people around your target. Ogawa decided to try to bury a few nails around John, maybe there will be a big surprise in the future!