No.135 Charity dinner
Killing a person is always the easiest and most convenient way to solve the problems caused by this person, however, using such methods will always leave too many traces, which may cause unnecessary trouble and lead to bad results.
There are many ways to make a person die in this world, and among these methods, there is a method that can deny a person's existence in a social sense without bloodshed, and it is called social death.
Concocting evidence of the social death of a vice president is a very big undertaking.
Because too much of the evidence currently available has been destroyed, people in the know are almost dead, and the only arms dealer who can testify has disappeared, so it is basically necessary to start from scratch.
Under these circumstances, a group of veteran agents over half a hundred years old used the Russian embassy as a new base and headquarters, and with the assistance of the Russian Federal Security Service, which was ready to watch the Americans have fun and wanted to do something, began to collect useful evidence through various channels.
Including the identity information of the deceased, photos taken at the scene of the death and the like - the deaths of these dead were all artificially faked by the assassination team, and the killers who did it were all CIA killers, and it was not difficult to find evidence of their actions.
Lin Cheng took Elena back to Langley again.
In the CIA headquarters' data center, where the improvised transceiver he installed in the server had not yet been discovered, Elena hacked into the CIA's internal network directly in the parking lot and obtained most of the materials they needed.
After returning to the embassy, they began to sort and select all the materials.
The evidence has been carefully rearranged in a very confusing way, and the result is that as soon as you look at the evidence presented in this material, you will immediately realize that there is something even more difficult in it.
On the eve of the charity gala, when Vice President Robert was about to announce his candidacy, hundreds of well-wrapped paper documents, along with corresponding data files, were sent to the homes of all Democratic-born members of the Senate, or to their private email addresses.
This is a critical period for the presidential election of the United States.
Because today is the last day of October, and tomorrow is the beginning of election month, after receiving this anonymous report, the Democrats immediately realized that this was an opportunity to deal with a serious competitor and immediately called an internal meeting.
However, Mr. Robert Stanton, who was at the center of the vortex, did not know anything about what was happening, and he landed in Chicago with his team at noon today and stayed in a five-star luxury hotel.
A few hours later, at the charity dinner, after 12 a.m., the beginning of campaign month, he publicly announced that he would form his own campaign team and run for president.
Because this is a charity dinner at the top of the society, all the money raised will be used for his own campaign, so Robert Stanton is very important to this charity dinner.
The scene of the banquet not only found hundreds of hotel service staff to prepare the banquet, but also equipped with the most professional security team, that is...... The CIA field team, led by William Cooper, was demoted for letting the prisoners go and handling them ineffectively.
The hustle and bustle of the hotel starts with the morning work hours.
For tonight's charity dinner, the hotel ordered a variety of ingredients from all over the world, invited the most professional chefs, and was busy from 10 am to 4 pm, so that all the necessary materials were prepared and ready to go.
And the CIA's security team to protect the vice president also surrounded the entire venue.
Not only did they spend a long time searching for suspicious items such as bugging devices, but they also sent people to guard the entrances and exits of each banquet venue to make sure that no suspicious people would enter except for staff and guests.
At around 6 p.m., the high-ranking officials who received invitations from the Victory Foundation, the organizer of the charity dinner, began to arrive one after another, and all kinds of luxury cars even blocked the road in front of the five-star hotel.
Fortunately, the Chicago police had been prepared for a long time, and the traffic police department provided emergency guidance to ensure that the order at the scene was safe and sound.
Brightly dressed celebrities, wealthy businessmen, government officials, military generals, and Republicans from all walks of life began to appear on the red carpet in front of the hotel.
Although the dinner is a dinner party, not all guests will choose to wait for dinner hungry, because this is a social occasion for the upper class, and the so-called dinner party is actually just a gimmick.
Under the guidance of the staff, the guests entered the banquet hall one after another.
They walked through the center of the venue, sat in their own places, and began to chat with the people around them for a short time, but also to expand their social circle, which is a very good investment behavior for these people with ulterior motives.
Hundreds of round tables are covered with white tablecloths, the lamps on the tables radiate a warm yellow light, exquisite meals are placed on the plates, and the goblets are also filled with mellow wine, and the hotel staff constantly walks through them to serve the dignitaries and dignitaries on the scene.
Directly opposite the venue, there is a huge booth, the booth is covered with a thick red interlining, and on both sides of the interlining, there are two huge American flags, the scene of the sense of ceremony has been full, just waiting for the main body of this charity gala to appear.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let us welcome a true war hero, our gracious friend and wise leader, and allow me to have the honour of inviting the protagonist of this banquet, our Vice-President, Mr. Robert Stinton—"
On the stage, as soon as the host spoke, he immediately attracted everyone's attention.
People stopped talking and what they were doing and turned their eyes to the direction of the stage, and then, surrounded by the security team, Robert Stanton, dressed in a black casual suit, walked through the passage behind the stage and appeared at the edge of the stage.
"Welcome—welcome, thank you for coming to this charity gala."
Looking at the faces under the stage that looked a little blurred in the light, Robert Stanton had a formulaic smile on his face, he had no stage fright, he had worked in the position of vice president for a long time, and he was already very skilled in giving speeches in public.
"I know that your patience is limited, so I'll try to keep my speech a little more simple tonight so that you can sign my check more quickly."
His sneer made most of the people present smile, whether they really wanted to laugh or not, but the vast majority of them laughed along with Robert Staunton, at least on the surface, it still seemed to be a scene of joy and harmony.
It's a pity that what they don't know is that among the guests in the audience, there are some people who are plotting against them.
For example, a mysterious Chinese billionaire who succeeded in getting an invitation to the Victory Foundation as the owner of a charitable foundation, and the silver-haired girl who followed him.