Chapter 148: Perception
Roscoe Henry Hillencott has been in the thick of things lately, not only did he catch a group of high-ranking Soviet spies through Albert's blacklist, but he also smashed various networks secretly established by the Soviet Union in the United States, which can be regarded as a heavy blow to the other party.
"Good morning, Director." As soon as Roscoe stepped into the office, he was greeted by people who kept greeting him, and Rothko smiled friendly at everyone along the way and walked towards the office.
When he arrived at the office, he looked at today's memo and was about to open the file and start working, when a young man hurriedly ran in, without even knocking on the door, he was Rothko's assistant, because the director of the intelligence bureau only valued personal ability, so his secretary and assistant must be an intelligence analyst.
"Director, I think you should take a look at this latest piece of information from the Soviet Union." The young man handed the document to Rothko, pointed to the key place and said, "There is intelligence that the Soviets are making a deal for nuclear weapons technology with a stranger whose background cannot be found, and the Soviets are trading missile facilities with them. And a few weeks ago, we had received information that a steamer with large machinery was departing from the Soviet Union for Congo, and combined with the events that had taken place before, we ventured to speculate that the object of the deal was probably Belgium. β
Rothko listened to the intelligence analyst's analysis dictated by his assistant, while browsing the document, and after the assistant finished speaking, Rothko also just finished reading the document, he closed the document, exhaled, and said slowly, "Let the hidden spies continue to provide valuable information, I will go to the White House to find the president now." β
There's nothing worse than discovering that your allies may have defected to you, and according to Albert, you didn't expect that you, a big-eyed guy, would defect to the revolution.
At first, he didn't understand why Belgium wanted to make such a deal with the Soviets, and thought it might be a conspiracy of the Soviets, but he quickly figured out that the Belgians had always coveted ballistic missile technology, and previous negotiations had also mentioned exchanging nuclear weapons technology for ballistic weapons and equipment, but the United States rejected it. It seems that the Belgians, who are not dead in their hearts, wanted to obtain missile technology through the Soviet route.
Thinking deeper, Rothko couldn't help but get goosebumps, it was Belgium that provided nuclear weapons technology to the United States, and it was Belgium that instigated the United States to sanction the Soviet Union, and it was Belgium that made a deal with the Soviet Union, that is to say, after the United States refused to exchange ballistic missile technology, the Soviets used the means of the United States to sanction the Soviet Union to obtain missile technology and equipment. In this invisible war, both the United States and the Soviet Union thought they had won, but in fact, the biggest winner was Belgium.
It was a brilliant trick that made Rothko wonder if the Belgian government had a large team of analysts behind them to help them deal with all sorts of emergencies and emergencies.
After coming to the White House, he didn't care about his image, he ran towards the president's office as fast as he could, everyone passing by looked at the director of intelligence who was running in a hurry in surprise, the telephone had not been invented in these years, and everything was reported by phone and letters, this news was too shocking, so Rothko was so hurried that he forgot to make a phone call to the president first.
So when Roscoe pushed the door in, he also startled Truman, who was concentrating on the approval of the case, he raised his head and pushed his glasses, and wanted to mumble a few words of dissatisfaction, but as soon as he raised his head and saw Roscoe's pale look, he immediately asked, "What's wrong, what's wrong?" β
"The Belgians are exchanging nuclear weapons and ballistic weapons technology with the Soviets, and the heavy machinery and equipment used by the Soviets to assemble ballistic missile factories have been shipped to the Belgian colony of Congo, Your Excellency, and we have all been tricked by that kid." Rothko said this fiercely as he handed the results of the intelligence analysis to His Excellency the President.
At first, Truman thought he was joking, until after reading the report, Truman fell into deep thought. If this report is true, it is tantamount to the United States imposing sanctions on Belgium, from economic to military aspects, but if the information is not true, if the United States first blames Belgium, then Truman will have to face the reproach of many countries.
Distraught, Truman had no choice but to order his aides to bring Secretary of State Marshall over, and Truman developed the attitude of seeking good friends in advance, and the United States has always pursued an "offensive foreign policy." So that the United States can intervene in regional disputes in various affairs.
"It looks like one of our allies has betrayed us." Secretary of State Marshall, who had read the materials, analyzed, "And he took advantage of our desire to get nuclear weapons to deceive a large group of people with a deception that was not very clever, and the poor Soviets have earned their own ...... so far."
"Now is not the time for you to compliment your opponent, Marshall." Truman asked with a headache, "I called you here to hear your opinion, to know that you are the one in charge of diplomacy." β
"It depends on how far His Excellency the President wants to expand the situation." Maher put down the piece of paper that recorded the intelligence and calmly analyzed it, just like dissecting the enemy's tactics on the battlefield, Marshall unraveled Albert's conspiracy step by step, "If you want to adopt sanctions, it is nothing more than economic suppression and restrictions on the sale of his military weapons." By the way, the crown prince's AKM rifles and UZI submachine guns have made a lot of money in the United States, and it's time to protect our firearms industry. β
Restricting the entry of foreign firearms and protecting the domestic arms industry are also tried and tested by the U.S. government.
"Then there will be negotiations for Belgium to voluntarily abandon its nuclear arms deal with the Soviet Union, and it will have to be supervised by the United States and the Atomic Energy Commission, and then it will be up to His Excellency the President to decide what Belgium will do." But I would suggest not pushing Belgium too hard, and that it would be nice to jump into the socialist camp. "Marshall's method can also be said to be a clichΓ©, a stick and a carrot, but this time it is likely that there will be only a stick and no carrots. And it is better to limit the development of Belgium, to put it bluntly, because his geographical location is too important, he really wants to take refuge in the Soviet Union, and then deploy heavy weapons in Belgium, which is guaranteed to shock everyone 100%.
"Okay, it's time for this young man who doesn't know what to do to quietly annoy the Americans, what will happen to the Americans, hasn't France been hooking up with Belgium recently, and it's just a good time to warn this guy not to get too carried away." Truman slapped his pen on the table and said coldly. The United States, which has been smooth sailing since World War II, has really not been so embarrassed.
Marshall looked at the angry president, gloating that Belgium's unfortunate days were coming.