The future CIA was the most powerful intelligence agency in the world, and in 1941 the CIA was just being founded. At that time, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the severity of the war in Europe greatly exceeded the expectations of the United States, so Roosevelt was promoted to establish a special intelligence department, that is, the CIA.

The newly established CIA was mainly engaged in espionage and counterintelligence, which was different from the CIA in later generations, when the CIA was really protecting the United States. In the future, wherever there is turmoil, there will be the CIA, and if there is no turmoil, the CIA will not mind creating some turmoil on its own.

Chen Qiang knew that the current CIA was mainly responsible for espionage and counter-espionage, so when they came to the door, Chen Qiang also felt very strange.

Of course, Chen Qiang didn't want to be taken away by the CIA, and in the face of three CIA agents who were not good at coming, Chen Qiang directly moved Roosevelt out.

When the three CIA agents heard Roosevelt's name, they were no longer as domineering as before.

"Mr. Chen, we are conducting a routine investigation, and we hope you can cooperate." The agent at the head spoke.

"So you just want me to help with the investigation, not to arrest me, right?" Chen Qiang said coldly.

"That's right. We just hope that Mr. Chan can assist in the investigation. The agent at the head said softly.

"Alright then, please sit inside." Chen Qun saw that the CIA agent had softened, so he also took a step back and invited the three of them to his office.

After the guests and hosts sat down, Chen Qiang asked, "What do the three of you want to know from me?" ”

"Mr. Chen, I heard that you shorted stocks on Wall Street and made a lot of money, is there such a thing?" The lead agent asked.

Chen Qiang nodded: "It's not a secret, many stockbrokers on Wall Street know that I have a very wonderful trade." I want to make money by shorting stocks, it's not against U.S. law, right? And every penny of my profit is taxed in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations of securities, and I am sure that those are legal income. ”

"Mr. Chen, we are not denying the legitimacy of your money through the stock market. But shouldn't you explain why you would go short selling sugar stocks with so many stocks to choose from? Did you already know that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor? ”

Chen Qiang instantly understood that the CIA had found him, and it turned out to be related to this incident.

According to the estimates of the brokers of securities companies, Chen Qiang could make a profit of at least 20 million US dollars in this stock market crash, which was an astronomical amount in 1941, and many small countries may not have so much wealth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are rich. Moreover, this money was earned by taking advantage of the stock market crash on Wall Street, which is equivalent to making the national disaster of the United States.

Prior to this, the entire Wall Street felt that because of the need to provide food aid to Europe, the American sugar industry would usher in a spring, but Chen Qiang was shorting the stocks of the sugar industry at this time, and the most important thing was that Japan really went to attack Pearl Harbor. No one is stupid enough to gamble on a million-dollar sum of money on whether they will have shit luck in the next few days.

Since Chen Qiang has already had inside information, it is only natural that the CIA, a counterintelligence organization, should investigate Chen Qiang. For example, after the outbreak of the "911 incident" in the future, if any capitalist had set up a situation in the stock market in advance and used the "911 incident" to make a windfall, then the Americans would definitely doubt you, is it in league with Ben-**? Not to mention an investigation, it's not too much to freeze your assets directly!

Of course, Chen Qiang knew that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor, but he couldn't tell the CIA agents that he was an unpredictable prophet, so Chen Qiangzhi had no choice but to explain: "I did guess that Japan would attack the United States, in fact, as early as the beginning of this year, I knew that Japan would attack the United States." ”

"Mr. Chen, do you mean that you already knew that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor?" The lead agent asked sharply.

"No, I'm just saying that I had long guessed that Japan would launch an attack on the United States." Chen Qiang paused, and then said: "At the beginning of the year, the Japanese admiral Okaku Qinsheng was killed in China's Guangdong region, and at that time, our Chinese intelligence department had already realized that Japan would launch an attack on the United States, otherwise a Japanese admiral would not appear in Guangdong, you must know that we have no navy in China, and the Japanese army has invaded China's mainland, if it is only to attack China, there is no need for the Japanese army to dispatch a navy, and there is no need to dispatch a navy. Therefore, the purpose of the Japanese army must be to deal with you, the United States. ”

"You mean to say that China's intelligence agencies have analyzed that the Japanese army will launch an attack on the United States?" The lead agent immediately asked.

Chen Qun nodded: "Yes, this is all the credit of our intelligence department. Moreover, our embassy in the United States has repeatedly reminded members of the Diet of your country to be careful of Japanese attacks, but the members of Congress of your country apparently believe the statement of the Japanese ambassador to the United States, Kichizaburo Nomura, that Japan will not attack the United States. It's not a secret in Washington about what I'm talking about, you can go to our Chinese embassy and ask if they've been alerting the members of Congress. You can also ask a few congressmen to see if they have been reminded by our ambassador to the United States. ”

The three agents glanced at each other, and although they had not yet asked the Chinese Embassy in the United States and the members of the American Congress, they had already guessed that what Chen Qiang said was true.

It has not been a day or two since the Chinese Embassy in the United States has been preaching everywhere in Washington that Japan will launch an attack on the United States, and these low-level CIA agents have also heard of it. It's just that everyone regards the Chinese embassy's warning as an anti-Japanese propaganda, and no one believes that what the Chinese embassy says is true.

Chen Qun's remarks are half-truthful, but they are reasonable. However, such an investigation result obviously did not satisfy the three CIA agents. It is impossible to write a report saying that the Chinese issued a warning months in advance, but we Americans did not believe it, and as a result, we were beaten by the Japanese.

Suddenly, the agent led by him had an idea, and thought of the loophole in Chen Qiang's words, and he immediately spoke: "Mr. Chen, since you already knew at the beginning of the year that the Japanese would launch an attack on the United States, why did you start selling stocks short until the end of the year?" Why didn't you do anything for a whole year? Why wait until before the Japanese air raid on the Pearl Harbor naval base to start short selling? ”

Chen Qiang smiled and replied calmly: "At the beginning of the year, when I just learned from our embassy that the Japanese would attack the United States, I didn't have that much money in hand, so I didn't have the stock market involved. The money I made from selling hula hoops was all invested in the bowling business, which you can check with Beckland, I don't have any money in hand, so naturally I won't sell stocks short. And something more important......"

"What is it?" The lead agent immediately asked.

"I didn't know at the time that you could make money shorting stocks. Truth be told, I just learned last month that the stock market can make money by selling short. Chen Qiang replied.

"Mr. Chen, this excuse is not very clever, is it?" The lead agent spoke.

Chen Qiang explained unhurriedly: "Last month, I recovered a large amount of money, and when I had money in my hands, I planned to buy a house and invest in real estate. Eventually, I bought an apartment building with Elizabeth Donald's company, and when I was talking to the other party's boss, Mr. Fred ***, I happened to talk about the stock market, and Mr. *** told me that I could make money by shorting stocks, and I only knew that there was such a stock operation, so I put most of my money into the stock market. What I'm talking about, you can go to that *** gentleman to verify. ”

Chen Qiang's explanation can be described as leaky, and there are witnesses, which makes the three CIA agents feel at a loss.

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Chen Qiang had Roosevelt as a big backer, and the three CIA agents did not dare to be rude to Chen Qiang, so they had to leave after making inquiries.

"Team leader, what the Chinese said sounds like it is true, and he still has a witness, this line, do we still want to continue to investigate?" One of his subordinates asked.

"Of course you have to check!" The lead agent nodded firmly, and he continued: "Our CIA has just been established, and the FBI is eyeing us and thinks that we have robbed them of their jobs, so we have to make some achievements. We were the first CIA agents, and if we were able to get breakthrough intelligence, we would inevitably win the favor of Director Donovan, and promotion was a sure thing. ”

The CIA, a temporary department created after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began work in several dilapidated buildings near the White House with a $450,000 grant from the Budget Bureau. It may be difficult for people in the future to imagine that the world's largest intelligence organization was so miserable at the beginning of its establishment.

Before the establishment of the CIA, espionage and counterintelligence were the responsibility of the FBI and the US Army intelligence. When the CIA was established, Director Hoover of the FBI obviously thought that the CIA had robbed them of the FBI's job, so the FBI and the CIA had never dealt with each other, and the two directors, Hoover and Donovan, even quarreled in front of Roosevelt over an Axis codebook secretly photographed by British spies.

Although Roosevelt finally made it clear that the CIA was responsible for both espionage and counterintelligence, the CIA was too small and too weak compared to the FBI behemoth. Had it not been for Roosevelt's support, the CIA would have been overshadowed by the FBI in a day.

It is for this reason that CIA agents are eager to solve a big case or get an important piece of information, so that the CIA can also raise its eyebrows and not always be held down by the FBI.

So the three CIA agents questioned Little Beckland and Lao *** one after another, and Little Beckland confirmed that Chen Qiang invested money in the bowling business in the first half of the year, and only recently did he receive the profit from the sale of bowling balls; And Lao *** can also prove that when he was talking about business in the café that day, he told Chen Qiang that the stock could be sold short to make money.

With no results on the New York side, the three investigators returned to Washington.

As for the Chinese embassy, there is no need to investigate at all, and the most Hu Shih has done in the past period of time, without real power, has done more than to visit members of Congress everywhere and publicize that Japan is going to attack the United States.

Japan's ambassador to the United States, Yoshizaburo Nomura, is doing something similar, constantly visiting members of Congress and then announcing that Japan will focus on occupying China and has no idea about the Far East outside of China for the time being.

Since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Nomura Kichizaburo has not enjoyed the treatment of a diplomat, he was directly arrested by the United States, and then imprisoned, and then the United States searched the Japanese embassy for hundreds of encrypted telegrams, all of which were Nomura Kichizaburo's contacts with Japan.

So the three CIA agents planned to start from this aspect, and they began to check some secret documents of the Japanese embassy, hoping to find clues to prove that Japan's plan to attack Pearl Harbor was leaked, and finally Chen Qiang learned about it, so Chen Qiang could short the stock before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

However, only three days later, the director of the CIA, Donovan, personally issued a directive asking them to stop the investigation.

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In a small, dilapidated building near the White House, the CIA's temporary office was located.

"Director, why should we stop the investigation? This matter is too strange, that Chinese shorted the stocks of the sugar industry at such a critical point in time, he is making a fortune in the United States! You don't think it's all a coincidence, do you? The agent in charge of the investigation spoke.

Director Donovan sighed: "It's not that I don't want to investigate, it's that we can't continue to investigate." When several members of the Diet heard that we had found the Japanese Embassy, they began to put pressure on me, and they did not want us to continue the investigation. ”

"Why?" The agent asked, puzzled.

These members of the Diet were very close to the Japanese ambassador to the United States, Nomura Kichizaburo, and they also listened to Nomura Kichizaburo's words and believed that the focus of Japan's attack was on China and that it would not attack us. Facts have proven them wrong, and if it is found out that they are involved with the Japanese, then their political career will be over! Donovan explained.

The agent understood instantly.

Nomura Kichizaburo's diplomatic offensive in the United States has been very successful, so in the past few months, there have been many members of Congress who have good intentions towards Nomura Kichizaburo, and if they are held accountable, these congressmen who once believed Nomura Kichizaburo are also accomplices in the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor. It was precisely because of their gullibility that Nomura Kichizaburo was unprepared for Japan, and Japan was able to successfully attack Pearl Harbor. If they had listened to Hu Shih's words and given more attention to the Japanese, perhaps the US Pearl Harbor base would not have become so miserable.

In the United States now, there is a lot of excitement, every American can't wait to find the Japanese for revenge, Janet Rankin's vote against declaring war on Japan has directly ended her political career, if any congressman dares to speak for the Japanese, it will definitely be regarded as a "traitor to the United States" by the American people.

So at this time, those members of the Diet who used to have a good relationship with Nomura Kichizaburo were all worried that someone would turn over old accounts and turn over the things that had happened with Nomura Kichizaburo back then. So they began to do everything they could to stop the CIA investigation. Moreover, the more pro-Japanese they were, the more they had to behave anti-Japanese at this time, so that they could keep their political careers.

In the end, the CIA's investigation had to be dismissed, and Chen Qiang also accepted the US national disaster wealth with peace of mind and earned 20 million US dollars.

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PS: The name "CIA" was officially named in June 1942, and before that it was only a temporary intelligence agency against the Axis powers, without an official name. In order to make it easier for readers to understand, the name of the CIA is used directly.