Stimson didn't expect John to answer immediately, and after giving a rough introduction to the preparations of the three agencies, he let John go back. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Back in the room, John struggled with insomnia again. Faced with the three options of the "Fight for Freedom Committee", the Military Production Committee, and the Strategic Intelligence Agency, John needs to weigh them carefully.

After tossing and turning in bed for a long time, John gave up on the "Fight for Freedom Committee". The efforts of the old-fashioned internationalists to balance the international situation through the League of Nations and the Geneva Conference on Disarmament have been completely bankrupt. Before Hitler's madman swept across Europe, the overwhelming superiority of isolationism in the United States could not be shaken.

John had agreed to join the "Fight for Freedom Committee" only to make his position clear to the "main war faction" bigwigs. Now that both the Military Industrial Production Committee and the Strategic Intelligence Agency can serve the same purpose, there is no need to choose it again.

After all, John didn't want to be called an arms dealer and a lackey of Wall Street Jews. Moreover, the Committee for Freedom is a civil society organization that the "main war faction" uses to fight the isolationists. It was automatically dissolved after the United States entered the war, and it did not bring John any substantial benefit.

Now it's a choice between two or the other, either the Military-Industrial Production Committee or the Strategic Intelligence Directorate. John looked at the already slightly white sky outside, and knew that he was destined to not sleep tonight. He simply got up, found a pen and paper, and leaned back on the bed to list the advantages and disadvantages he could think of.

As early as when he first crossed over, John had plans to join the Strategic Intelligence Agency during the war, and he had been with Donovan at that time. The Strategic Intelligence Agency has one of the greatest advantages, and that is that it is subordinate to the military. By joining it, you can avoid the problem of joining the army.

You must know that in times of war, a child of a large family of the right age like John would be easily criticized if he did not join the army. By joining the Strategic Intelligence Agency, you can not only obtain an official military rank, but also continue to operate as a businessman under the banner of intelligence needs. After all, there is still a lot of freedom in the intelligence services.

However, after meeting Donovan on the ship returning from England, John hesitated about his original thoughts. At that time, both John and Donovan were returning home on the cruise ship "Queen Mary". On board, the two of them had several in-depth exchanges.

Before, John's understanding of Donovan was all from the Internet in his previous life. When he came into contact with Donovan personally, he couldn't help but wonder if he would be able to work with him.

Donovan was a natural adventurer, a daring actionist, completely different from John. This time, Donovan, as Roosevelt's private observer, had secret contacts with British intelligence. But he seems to be only interested in violent actions such as infiltration and sabotage.

John discovers that Donovan is a guy who likes to fight and destroy. He even said to John himself, "It's barely acceptable to gather intelligence, because it's more or less risky, and it's too boring to analyze intelligence and write reports in the office."

Historically, under his leadership, the Strategic Intelligence Agency has always had a tradition of "emphasizing subversion over intelligence". And the cadres under him also despise the work of intelligence, and would rather go to the battlefield to take risks, or engage in subversion behind enemy lines. In the Strategic Intelligence Agency, operatives are affectionately referred to as "cowboys," while intelligence analysts are nicknamed "choir boys."

And what John is good at is precisely engaging in intelligence analysis, "safety first" is his code of conduct, and he has no interest in the thrill of adventure. Therefore, if he joins the Strategic Intelligence Agency, he is destined to be a "non-mainstream" marginal role.

What's even more troublesome is that Donovan and Hoover are bitter enemies. If only John didn't know Hoover, not only were he and Hoover Freemasons now, but the two were currently in a relationship. In the future, it will be more difficult for him to be sandwiched between Donovan and Hoover.

What if Hoover wanted to use him against Donovan? Promise, it's not John's style to be a two-five boy who eats inside and out. If you don't agree, you are destined to offend Hoover, the "Big Buddha" who has stood for 48 years.

Historically, Donovan didn't survive Hoover in the end. After Roosevelt's death, Truman disbanded the Strategic Intelligence Agency and sent Donovan to Thailand as ambassador. Even if the CIA was later reorganized, Donovan was not used again.

Then, there is only one option left for the Military Industrial Production Committee. In the future, this department will not only have the power to procure materials or arrange for the army and navy to purchase them, but will also be able to directly supervise the manufacturers of these materials in actual production, and will have a significant influence on the operation of private companies and the industry as a whole.

Moreover, unlike the wartime economic systems of Britain and Germany, the United States had a relatively low degree of mobilization and did not establish a large supreme management body for the wartime economy covering both military and civilian departments.

In other words, the Munitions Industrial Production Commission is nominally a coordinating body, but in reality it performs the functions of a governing body, and there is no war committee composed of military and civilian officials to supervise it, so it has considerable freedom.

If John can join this agency, it will be very beneficial for the future development of FedEx and Hughes Aircraft. With such obvious benefits, fools know how to choose, so what did John hesitate about?

John's hesitation was not without reason. It's because the Military Industrial Commission is so good that he is so entangled. He can see the benefits of joining the Military Production Management Committee, can't others see it?

Historically, the struggle between the various factions in the Munitions Industrial Production Committee was very fierce. Don't look at John, who is now a wealthy entrepreneur, compared with those bigwigs in the future military production management committee, he is at best a small shrimp. John was worried that if he wasn't careful, he would be killed by one of the waves.

You know, when the U.S. economy began to transform into a wartime system, almost every big business group had senior executives appointed to the Munitions Industrial Production Commission. On the one hand, they have to fight for military orders and strategic material quotas, and on the other hand, they have to ensure that after their transformation, the original civilian market share will not be encroached upon by other enterprises, and the intensity of the struggle between them can be imagined.

Moreover, in addition to the representatives of these large conglomerates, the government officials stationed in the Military Industrial Production Commission are also divided into factions and camps, and there are many contradictions. Most of these officials came from the Manpower Commission, the Maritime Commission, the Office of Price Management, the Food Administration, the Public Utilities Administration, the Electrification Administration, and other prominent departments of the Roosevelt New Deal era, each of which represented the interests of the original department in an attempt to gain a greater voice in the committee.

If that's all there is to it, John will be able to protect himself and remain neutral. The key point is that after joining the Military Industrial Production Committee, it is inevitable that one will get involved in the struggle between the various branches of the armed forces and between the military and the civilian population to grab quotas for strategic materials. It's not a good job, and it's quite easy to offend people.

Those executives all have solid backgrounds, and the government officials are all Democrats who have been involved in Roosevelt as early as the New Deal era.

But on second thought, John might not have been as bad as he thought. Behind him are also Stimson and other Republican "main battle" bigwigs. Stimson and Knox, one will be the Secretary of the Army and the other will be the Secretary of the Navy in the future, plus Donovan, who is in charge of the intelligence system, are not easy characters to deal with.

As the spokesperson of these people in the Military Industry Production Committee, John still has the opportunity to fish in troubled waters, depending on his own operational level. As the saying goes, "wealth and wealth are sought in danger", why don't you just give it a go?