Lin Xiao was indeed a little surprised by Catherine's intelligence organization, a private intelligence organization was only two hundred people, and the scale was indeed surprising.

In Lin Xiao's eyes, intelligence organizations are generally political, and if they want to engage in intelligence organizations in Huaxia, what is the estimation that they will be directly banned on the charge of conspiracy to endanger ***, where can it develop into such a large-scale enterprise operation model?

It is true that foreigners' thinking is not the same, at least it is very different from that of Huaxia.

"Actually, it's a bit exaggerated." Catherine explained a little embarrassedly: "If it is strictly up, the intelligence personnel are only the core of twenty people, and the second level is not enough to act as an intelligence officer, as for the periphery, even the company's cleaners and food delivery are counted, in fact, they don't know what the company is doing." ”

"Oh." Lin Xiao immediately laughed when he heard this.

However, Lin Xiao can certainly understand Catherine's approach, after all, only large companies are only large-scale, and the company can get the scale effect favored by customers.

At first glance, it is obvious that a private intelligence organization with 200 people should have great influence, so after hearing it, the customer will have an inexplicable sense of trust and is willing to accept the intelligence services provided by our company.

But if there are only three or two big cats and small cats in the company, then there is no business development, and even customers are scarce, just waiting to starve to death.

After all, the era is no longer the era of fighting alone, everyone is playing with their brains and competing for command, so teamwork is very important, and teamwork is the king.

"Interested in visiting the company?" Catherine suddenly extended an invitation to Lin Xiao.

"Why not?" Lin Xiao naturally would not refuse such an invitation, in fact, he really wanted to find out the bottom of Catherine's intelligence organization and see if it could inspire him and so on.

Lin Xiao had no intention of sleeping, and Catherine was not sleepy, and the two got into Catherine's Maserati sports car again and went directly to Catherine's company.

After driving for about half an hour, I saw a nondescript office building.

Catherine's think tank-type strategic intelligence agency is in this building, according to Catherine, there are usually about 70 people here, and the office area is not large, after all, intelligence operations try not to attract attention, and this is a general rule in the industry, once you enter the intelligence operation area, you should immediately take strict precautions.

Catherine's guest reception room is not located in the office area.

In the reception room next to the reception desk, it is often inaccessible to guests in the office area.

The company also strictly manages the entry and exit of its employees, such as a strict registration system, password system, and guest system.

Lin Xiao and Catherine entered the office area together, and saw that it was actually ordinary and normal.

Although there is no shortage of space in Catherine Turkey, the office space is still a bit cramped, and the corridors of the office area are full of world maps or regional maps, and there are many hot spots that are worth keeping a close eye on.

These maps are diverse: economic, military, and geopolitical.

Basically, Catherine's company relies on geopolitics to eat, and it also relies on geopolitics, and the people who started publicly are a strategic forecasting company, which is essentially a think tank-type strategic intelligence agency.

However, unlike several of its major intelligence agencies, Catherine's intelligence organization is market-oriented, aiming at profit, and has its own unique profit model.

Of course, at this stage in China, there is no such mode of intelligence operation.

The most important point is that this form does not seem to be permitted by law in mainland China.

"We gather intelligence through open sources, thanks to the Internet and the intelligence tools we use." Catherine said, "We are a private intelligence company that operates independently, independent of funders, political and economic forces, and its core working framework is to use intelligence tools to observe and analyze the world in geopolitics, collect and organize information, and process it into intelligence to provide to customers. At present, most of them provide economic intelligence and corporate intelligence. ”

Catherine's father's intelligence roots were deep, and despite his public status as a professor of political science, he had access to analysts or senior analysts, including counterterrorism experts from the CIA, Northeast Asia experts from the Military Intelligence Agency, active-duty Army officers, and West Point graduates.

When Lin Xiao heard this, he felt that Catherine's family should be very rich, otherwise how could she afford to raise so many idlers?

"One of the rules of the intelligence community is that intelligence officers are not allowed to inquire into each other or divulge each other's details." Catherine said to Lin Xiao: "However, a senior analyst in our company has to know whether the other party is not engaged in intelligence, and his background is actually very simple, as long as the old rivers and lakes smell the other party's body, they will know." ”

"What do you do now?" Lin Xiao saw that there were basically people in the office, and it was obvious that everyone had already rested, so he asked Catherine.

"Of course, the main economic intelligence is also political intelligence, but the price of political intelligence is relatively high, and ordinary people can't afford it." Catherine replied, "For example, we occasionally accept some assignments about Huaxia. ”

"What?" Lin Xiao couldn't help frowning when he heard this.

I really want to know what is going on, and several countries have been monitoring Huaxia, but Catherine is indeed more professional and moral on the issue, and she will come out to fold if it is not suitable, which makes Lin Xiao feel very depressed.

Unexpectedly, this time I actually met a female intelligence dealer, and the force value is quite high, not to mention that she actually monitored Huaxia for too long, which really made Lin Xiao feel a little unacceptable.

"At present, Huaxia has become the company's primary focus in East Asia, China's political system, China's economic influence on politics, China's leadership system, China's domestic hot issues, and China's international hot issues." Catherine: "We examine China's priorities and how China's politics respond to the challenges that come with economic growth. Under the general theme, it includes domestic pressures, wealth distribution, economic opportunities, the fragility of international supply lines, and the development of the Chinese navy and army. At the same time, they also pay attention to the management of migrant workers, banking reform, RMB policy, energy policy, and China's activities in neighboring countries, especially in Central Asia and Southeast Asia. ”

"What are you paying so much attention for?" Lin Xiao asked rhetorically.

"We strive to do Huaxiatong, in order to achieve the goal, it shouldn't be a bad thing to work hard now?" Catherine asked rhetorically.

"Well, it's not a bad thing." Lin Xiao nodded and replied, "But if it is discovered by the Huaxia officials, it will be difficult to control the matter." ”

"This is really a problem, China is almost the most difficult to enter the country, and it is only slightly better than North Korea." Catherine was not at all polite.

In fact, today's major gratifying intelligence companies in the world are basically fighting around China. In 1999, the United States bombed the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, and the U.S. official explained that the use of outdated maps led to the accidental bombing. However, Catherine's father, the old chairman of the company, was the first to publicly point out that it was impossible for the United States to bomb and witness the attack by mistake, and the company confirmed the location of the US cruise missile attack -- the Huaxia Embassy -- ahead of the American Line News Network (c) and all other media outlets.

"In the next few years, we will focus on China's core issues: leadership change, access to resources, energy security and efficiency, energy policy, infrastructure construction plans with neighboring countries, South China Sea policy, the intention and ability to move from a land power to a maritime power, the ability and challenges of economic transformation from export-oriented to domestic demand-oriented, demographic trends, military-civilian space planning, international peacekeeping operations, and political and social challenges." Catherine.

"It sounds complicated, and I don't think it's necessarily going to be able to come up with an answer." Lin Xiong hastily read Catherine's plan and threw it aside, and then asked, "How do you usually collect information about Huaxia?" ”

"The means and methods of intelligence research are even more important and secretive than the intelligence itself. Intelligence agencies are very important in gathering intelligence on their opponents, and on the one hand, they try to obtain the methods used by their opponents to gather intelligence. Hearing Lin Xiao's question, Catherine nodded and replied, "As for the way in which we study the Chinese question, we study China through extensive reading and monitoring of Chinese media and Chinese studies, by reading their sources about China, by contacting Chinese experts, and through occasional visits to China. ”

Catherine believes that China considers itself a continental country, but from a geopolitical point of view, China is actually an island country, surrounded by its countries on the north, west and south, and surrounded by the sea in the east, and the sea by the United States. At present, China's maritime security is mainly based on the good will of the United States towards China, which also highlights the fragility of China's maritime traffic security. Once the Americans want to do something, then the Chinese side will not be very stable.