Chapter 51: Goodbye, Base
In an official football match, players are included in the starting list and do not play, both theoretically and in reality, but they are very rare. Before submitting the "8+8" list to Colonel Andriy for his trip to the United States, Lynn did not single out the matter with any of these candidates for reasons of secrecy. After Andriy finally circled Handmark and the other eight people, Lynn first reluctantly accepted the final list, and only after the intelligence department arranged for the official call documents did he start talking to the eight people one by one, explaining to them the purpose of the operation, the requirements, and other general circumstances.
As long as he gets on Lynn's thief ship, he is confident that he will use his personality charm and the spirit of living and dying together to turn these elites into real "his own people" during the long journey.
For personal reasons, not everyone may be willing to give up their military posts and go to the distant United States to engage in temporary intelligence reconnaissance work. Puzzled and questioning emotions in the little officer Hotham. Wither and Mountain Sergeant Auston. Nowhere is this more evident than in Feck, who seems to have a high level of recognition of their current positions and feel that traveling across the ocean to the United States is not for them. Although the "Danish countryman" Diglio knew the news in advance, he also had some complaints about Lynn's private decision, and he should at least ask for his own opinion first. Major Handmark was certainly dissatisfied with the status quo and wanted a chance to change, but he obviously did not expect the opportunity offered by Lynn to be so "violent", even beyond his own plans for a military career, and he expressed this sentiment in his words with flickering words.
From the point of view of personal wishes, Boseman showed an active interest in Lynn's invitation, but as a junior officer, his fate was somewhat "involuntary" - the transfer order requested by the Ministry of Intelligence hit a nail in the base staff, to be precise, it was Rommel's chief of staff who raised a clear objection, believing that his subordinate staff officers held the most core secrets of the base, and in the event of an accident in the United States, it was likely to give the base and the last hope of revival of the empire a blow to the surname. In addition, Andriy was reluctant to confront Rommel's faction over an inconsequential issue, even with the support of Goebbels and Bach, and he quickly approached Lynn to inform him that Boseman would not be able to travel, and selected another of Lynn's former roommates, Golden-haired Ensign Wolrich with the same rank and seniority as Bosman, from the "8+8" list.
Although Lynn expected it and buried some foreshadowing in the arrangement of the "8+8" list, he was still a little unhappy at this time, and his political leaning once returned to Bach's side from Andrie. Considering that he was not good at hand-to-hand combat, "Glasses Superman" Boseman was the object of high hopes for Lynn. Wolrich's overall ability is not much worse, and he is relatively low-key, but he is not even as good as Wolfrum and Frederick.
After such adjustments, the 8 team members selected by Lynn were finally assembled two days before departure. Since they were traveling to the U.S., they did not have to carry their usual uniforms and weapons, but each person changed into a suit for their respective intelligence roles in advance and began intensive training.
According to Bertelem's original arrangement, the group will pretend to be Spanish diplomats and their entourage, businessmen from European countries, and tourists, because they have received the secret help of the Spanish official, most of their identification documents are genuine goods that can withstand serious inspection, and the rest are also high-fidelity fake certificates, and the hardware can basically ensure that they are not recognized. However, in Lynn's view, these false identities are not only monotonous and unimaginative, but also used such disguises by the German intelligence agents who were sent to the United States earlier, and whatever the reason for their exposure, the United States is likely to pay more attention to these three types of inbound personnel based on past experience. Moreover, there is no reason for diplomats, businessmen, or tourists to approach classified U.S. military programs.
After much deliberation, Lynn expressed his concerns to Bertrem and suggested that he change his mind and assign the intelligence officers a role that was more conducive to concealing their identities and approaching their targets, but this sane opinion was not supported by the Colonel. Bertrane's reasoning doesn't sound entirely personal: it takes time to remake the identity documents, the potential risks increase due to temporary adaptation to a new role, the plan needs to be reformulated and submitted to Goebbels, Bach, and so on. To sum it up, we can't afford to wait!
Lynn has never been the kind of person who goes to the end with a tendon, he chose the way to retreat to the second best - according to the original plan, after going to the United States, all 50 intelligence personnel did not carry out group operations, but were divided into several teams according to their respective tasks, some were responsible for contacting the old intelligence personnel lurking in the United States, and some were specifically responsible for listening to radio and communication radios, and the safety and condition of these personnel were not specifically responsible for Lynn, but Handmark and other 8 people participated in the trip to the United States completely because of their own recommendation. Having them play the role of ordinary businessmen and tourists is not only not safe, but also does not help them realize their strategic plans. Inevitably regarded as a soft persimmon who can only be reasonable, Lynn asked Bertrem with a firm attitude to adjust the role positioning of the 8 "special team members" selected for herself according to her language ability and physical characteristics.
Although Colonel Bertreum did not seem to be a person who was afraid of hard food, he couldn't bear Lynn's harsh tone, reluctantly agreed, and asked Lynn to carefully consider the required documents and the difficulty of obtaining documents when adjusting his role, after all, not all documents can be forged by the base intelligence department and can pass the inspection. However, in Lynn's view, this attitude of doing big things with small money and doing things for fear of trouble is absolutely unacceptable in terms of war, especially in intelligence work, and think about how much manpower and material resources the Allies can invest in interference for the smooth implementation of a plan, even at the cost of some people's lives. This is certainly contrary to human feelings, but the truth of success and defeat is the only eternal and unchanging.
24 hours before departure, Conference Room 4 on the ground floor of the Strategic Staff.
"From now on...... Please call me Carter. Home. Hello everyone! Nice to meet everyone! The weather is so nice today! ”
Lynn combed her hair into a bookish two-eight, wore a suit of fashionable style, good texture, and shiny leather shoes on her feet, but spoke English with a very impure foreign accent. In order to make this new identity an exchange scholar from the National University of La Plata in Argentina to the University of California in the United States, the intelligence department of Al Qaeda has notified the intelligence personnel in Argentina to immediately start applying for the relevant identity documents, especially the recommendation letters from the National University of La Plata through underground channels, which will then be brought by the German personnel who have been sent to the United States to join the intelligence team.
"Hello everyone, it's a pleasure...... See you all...... The weather was so nice! ”
Titchmel lamely retold the English sentence he had just said after Lynn, who was Carter, a wealthy Argentinian scholar. Home's retinue, Lynn's henchman, is a bookboy role that suits him for the role, with a rustic outfit and a peaked cap, and a perfect score in appearance.
Repeating the same sentence, Tan Ze, who has a little English background, has to speak much more smoothly, he is the same as Lynn, and he should have worn another pair of glasses, but he couldn't find suitable low-power glasses in the base for a while, so he had to wait until he arrived in the United States and then went to the optical store to get them. As an exchange scholar also recommended from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, his outfit was much poorer, his shoes were cracked, and he carried a shabby bag, thinking that "his family was poor, and he had to work and study part-time to make ends meet".
The University of California itself was not Lynn's goal, but Oppenheimer, who had been a faculty member for a long time here. Although Oppenheim no longer teaches at the University of California after taking up the position of technical director of the Manhattan project, it is certainly easier to start from here when he uses assistants from among his former fellow teachers and protégés, given the large number of scientific and technical personnel involved in the project. Because of this, Lynn and Tanze's self-determined exchange study program is the direction of particle research in physics - Tanze doesn't know much about this aspect, so he can only rely on Lynn's decades of common sense and surname knowledge to fool a little, anyway, enough scholars in the school have gone to the nuclear weapons project, and the exchange is a good excuse to ask.
In terms of false identities, Lynn, Tanze, and Titchmel belong to one activity group, and Handmark, Diglio, Brewer, and Wither belong to the other, who call themselves "weapons naturalists", that is, intermediate arms dealers who sell weapons to private individuals or organizations for collection and investment. Lynn's arrangement of such a role for them is quite bold, especially the actor's acting skills and flexibility, but the biggest advantage is that the war in Europe has ended, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries have a large number of surplus weapons, plus the captured German arms in various countries, it is a good time to buy a large number of them for collection and investment. It will not be long before the value of these war collections will rise dramatically, and it is a good calculation to make a windfall from this good business, and to stock up on firearms and ammunition for future combat operations.
The remaining two members of the team, Wolrich and Fick, are mainly responsible for playing the role of down-and-out nobles from Northern Europe, looking at land, buying land, recruiting laborers, cultivating land, and farming around Oak Ridge. In the United States, the key is to find a suitable reason to buy old planes for spraying pesticides and sowing seeds, so as to take advantage of the opportunity of the trek to conduct aerial reconnaissance of key areas, even if they are stopped by the United States, there is a reason to justify -- the identity that Bertreme arranged for Wolrich and Feck was originally a businessman from Finland, and he turned from a businessman to a farmer who was happy to farm, and the identity documents did not even need to be remade.
Twelve hours before departure, in the barracks dormitory of the 1st Marine Regiment of the Imperial Guard, Lynn emotionally explained to Wolfrum and Frederick the reasons for their defeat, and swore to them that this trip was by no means a farewell, and that he would not leave them alone to enjoy the blessings, because their future would not be in this cave or in a strange foreign land, and their ideal was to one day return to the European continent with their heads held high and gain the right to walk in the sun!
Six hours before departure, Lynn hesitated in her room, hesitating whether she should go to Goebbels' courtyard and try to see her again. I am confident that I will be able to play this trip to the United States with my extraordinary insight and flexible mind, but it is difficult to say how long it will take to return, and what will happen during this period, no one can predict it at the moment, maybe it will still be a "porcelain doll" when I leave, and goodbye is already the newlywed wife of a certain officer. However, the walls of Goebbels' courtyard are not high, but ordinary people can enter and exit at will, and without invitation, he will not recklessly rush to the post, and then Goebbels will say something like "I have not returned, she will not marry", which will only be regarded as excessive mental pressure and lead to emotional confusion, and the result is the opposite.
Half an hour before departure, Lynn arrived at the No. 1 submarine dock at the base of the "Vault", and this group of people dressed as civilians and carrying large and small suitcases looked like tourists who had signed up for a group trip. Some of them are well-dressed and fashionable, and some are simple and ordinary, but their bodies are only tall and short and basically not fat or thin, and their sturdy and sturdy bodies are trained at a glance, and their age is basically concentrated in the young and strong stage.
Although there were no alarms, a considerable number of guards stood or walked around the docks, all of them with serious expressions, blazing eyes, and genuine automatic weapons in their hands, watching the situation on and around the docks with great vigilance. Such a solemn atmosphere, and the fact that the commander of the operation, Colonel Bertreme, had warned in advance that these personnel who were about to leave for the other side of the ocean were deliberately silent.
Returning to the damp and cold air flow of the dock cavern, Lynn could not restrain the fountain of memories in the depths of his brain, and the shocking scenes seen in the "defection incident" were vividly vivid, when most of the officers and men who tried to seize the submarine and leave the base ended up being killed on the spot, so that he always felt that there was still a cold and mournful aura hovering here.
The 30 men on special duty (another 20 headed directly from South America to the United States) were delivered to a black submarine with its numbered and badge defaced, its long round hull rather streamlined, its unusual deck guns and anti-aircraft weapons, and the lines of the conning tower cabins were lower and wider. Unlike the busy sailing in the past, there were only a few submarine officers and men on the deck and tower room making final preparations, but judging from their expressions and postures, everything was under control.
As she boarded the boat, Lynn stood on the deck and looked back. The walls of this cave are still so smooth, the natural environment and post-processing, make this a fantasy existence, but the monotonous color reflects the monotonous life, from a long-term perspective, this is not a paradise, but a special prison away from the hustle and bustle, with food and beautiful women.
Goodbye, Sanctuary!
Goodbye, friends and people who pretend to be friends!
Goodbye, that unknown Oriental "porcelain doll"!
This will not be a farewell, but one day, I will bring you a new hope.
Lynn silently made such an oath in her heart.
(To be continued)