Chapter Eighty-Two: The Americans and the British Lie Down Their Guns

President Truman was in a good mood when he went to work today, smiling and nodding to every staff member who greeted him on the way to work. Because just two days ago, he and the British government decided to send boxes of supplies to the people in West Berlin who were cut off from water and electricity and could not live, which was undoubtedly a good opportunity to improve the image of the United States. In contrast to the brutal Soviet regime, everyone will remember the kindness and friendliness of the Americans.

Since Roosevelt's New Deal, the government's attitude of intervening in the free market has become more and more intense, and the United States has made a large amount of war money in World War II, and the American economy has shown more and more prosperity.

When he walked into the office, his good mood was interrupted by a quote from his secretary, "Mr. President, you'd better read this news first." When the curvy secretary placed a newspaper on the table and leaned over to deliver it to the president, Truman even saw the secretary's seductive and plump career line. All the presidents of the United States have had a history of love and love that makes people after dinner, but the most famous is Clinton.

"Thank you." Truman, who still didn't know why, smiled and took a sip of his coffee, his eyes glancing at the secretary's looming black lace-trimmed bra.

The secretary was in a hurry, she pointed directly to the headlines and said, "Look here, Your Excellency the President, something happened in East Germany." ”

It was then that Truman noticed the text on the news picture, "The United States airdropped weapons to the people of Berlin and supported the people in overthrowing the puppet regime of East Germany." "One picture is of a U.S. transport plane flying through the sky for an airdrop, while the other is of four destroyed T34 tanks from the Soviet Union.

Truman suddenly realized the gravity of the situation, put down his coffee, cleaned up the papers on the table, and said to the secretary, "Please have Secretary of State George Cartwright Marshall and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal come to my office." ”

"Okay." As soon as the secretary turned around, her long brown hair swept in front of Truman, leaving a faint fragrance, and the secretary in high heels walked out of the door with a twist of her ass, and her tight skirt set off her whole ass round and upturned. But at this time, Truman didn't have the heart to appreciate this beautiful scenery, and his mind was thinking quickly, why did his intelligence department not get this information, but let the British reporters take the lead?

Thinking of this, Truman hurriedly called out the secretary who was about to walk out the door, "Wait, by the way, Roscoe Henry Hillencott, the director of intelligence, will also call me." ”

"Okay." The young, energetic secretary smiled sweetly at President Truman.

Hoyt's performance in the previous game against Belgium was really unsatisfactory, so Truman decided to let Rear Admiral Roscoe Henry Hillencott be the director of the CIA, originally Roscoe Henry Hillencott was the first director of the CIA, but it was only because Albert changed history a little that the rear admiral became the second director of the intelligence department.

At present, the most important thing for Truman is to understand the situation clearly, the list of materials he provides is full of daily necessities, and there is absolutely no such thing as weapons.

Truman immediately thought of what Churchill had called an incredible battle plan, but the Prime Minister who came to power in 1945 was Labour leader, Clement Attlee, not Winston Churchill, who was called a warmonger. Therefore, it is absolutely unlikely that Britain wants to bypass the United States and go it alone with the Soviet Union.

Truman considered dozens of possibilities in just half an hour, but he vetoed them one by one. At this time, Secretary of State Marshall, Secretary of Defense Forrestal, and CIA Director Rothko appeared at the same time in Truman's office,

It's just that everyone looks at me and I look at you, looking like they don't know why. The three men who stood before the president were all big figures who had made great achievements, and Marshall proposed the Marshall Plan last year to support the economic recovery of Western Europe. James Forrestal was the first Secretary of Defense. Rothko was also the captain of the battleship USS Missouri.

"Roscoe, how do you explain this?" Truman shoved the newspaper in front of Rothko, "Four Soviet tanks were attacked by unknown militants, and it happened on the first day of our airdrop!" Why do British journalists know about this before we know about it, and you don't have any information so far, how did you become the director of the CIA? ”

Rothko didn't expect to be reprimanded by the president shortly after he took office, so he quickly lowered his head and apologized in fear, "I'm sorry, it's my dereliction of duty, so far there has been no feedback from the intelligence officers lurking in East Germany." ”

"Well, a British journalist has done a better job than you. Don't disappoint me like Hoyt. "Truman has so far attached great importance to intelligence work, and all mediocre talents who cannot get into his eyes have been dismissed.

"I promise it won't happen again." Rothko hurriedly apologized to the president.

But what is even more ironic is that in the future, in 1949, the Soviet Union succeeded in detonating the first atomic bomb and the Chinese Communist Party liberated China, but the CIA did not know about them. When the Korean War broke out in 1950, Rothko failed to foresee either North Korea's attack on South Korea or the China-People-People-Will-Will-Army to North Korea, resulting in the most significant intelligence blunder in the history of the CIA. These series of major missteps finally prompted President Truman to remove Hillencott and appoint Lieutenant General Walter Biddle Smith to replace him.

At this time, Rothko can still shine in this position for another two years.

"Okay, now I'd like to ask everyone here what can be done?" Truman asked, "After all, the timing of this attack is too coincidental. This happened to the U.S. government on the first day of the airdrop, as if someone had premeditated it. ”

"But we only decided to drop the supplies in the past few days, and the Berlin border blockade has only been six or seven days now, how can they know about it. Unless the weapons were brought into Berlin early in the morning, it is possible that the local militants opposed to the Soviets simply took advantage of this moment to attack the Soviet troops. Marshall threw out a more reasonable inference.

"Have you noticed, the guns used by these people are all Belgian weapons, especially the products of the North Industries Company of Crown Prince Albert, which was active in 1946, don't you think it's very premeditated?" Secretary of Defense James Forrestal pinpointed the problem.

"Are you saying that there is a Belgian behind this incident?" Truman's head suddenly became big, and the last time he stole chickens and rice, he made a fuss about himself. He knew this guy was not easy to deal with.

"It doesn't matter if the Belgians did it or not, it's important that we can make a big fuss about it." Marshall came up with a bold plan, "We can quite well assume that this incident was a so-called 'bitter meat trick' used by the Soviets, who blew up four tanks themselves and then slandered us Americans for doing it." When the time comes, as long as the USSR dares to do anything to our transport aircraft, it can be considered a provocation in wartime. ”

From the summer of 1924 to the late spring of 1927, Marshall served as the chief staff officer of the 15th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army in Tianjin, where he studied Chinese, and he had a deep understanding of the Chinese Art of War.

"It's just that we, the United States, are ready for a full-scale war with the Soviet Union?" Truman asked faintly.