Chapter 357: See Hoover and Donovan

I have to say that Li Junhao's words are too sharp, and this level of argument has greatly changed the faces of everyone present, especially those who are traditionally pro-British! And President Roosevelt, Ayles, Leahi and others also had grim faces and began to think deeply......

Li Junhao didn't say more, he knew that he needed to leave time for everyone to think about at this time, so he took the initiative to propose that the meeting end and reconvene another day, which was unanimously approved by everyone.

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After returning to the office, Li Junhao saw that Xiaoyu was communicating with Vicky, the two girls were of the same age, Xiaoyu's English was also practiced well, and there was no obstacle to the two chatting, which made him very pleased.

Sitting in the sofa area of the office, he felt that he had just said too much, and he urgently needed to replenish water, so he opened the posture and began to make tea, the tea table, tea set, tea leaves, alcohol stove, etc. were ready, no need to guess to know that it was Xiaoyu's handiwork, he can start now when he sits down.

During his time at the White House, because there were no safety problems, Nick, Xiaohu and Avne drove away to patrol the streets of the city, hoping to familiarize themselves with the streets of Washington as soon as possible and prepare for future security. At this point, they knew what to do without Li Junhao talking at all.

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The first day of work was peaceful, and as soon as it was time to get off work, Li Junhao drove home with a few people around him, and refused a few colleagues who wanted to invite him to dinner when he left.

After returning to Villa No. 47, Li Junhao filled the refrigerator in the kitchen with the materials in the carry-on space, and Xiaoyu started to work as a skilled chef again, making a table of sumptuous Chinese food for several people, so that everyone could eat happily.

After the meal, Li Junhao was shocked to find that Nick actually brought mahjong over, pulled Xiaoyu and Xiaohu not to mention, and quickly brought Avni to the meeting, and the four of them set up in the banquet hall!

At the request of everyone, Li Junhao also had to sit behind Avni and guide her a few times, and taught her before he was able to leave to read his own book, which was really detrimental to the majesty of the lord!

This matter was just a joke in the minds of Li Junhao, Xiaoyu and others, but it had a huge impact on Avne, and then she really felt the difference of this chief and felt a lot of emotion.

When he went to bed at night, Li Junhao still went to the Yiqu Building in the portable space, where not only the world's only powerful intelligent computer, but also the various books that were already on the shelves, and more importantly, he felt comfortable in it.

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On Tuesday, June 24, after going to work, Li Junhao attended several White House meetings in a row, but he did not speak at the meeting again, but only brought his ears to attend.

At a conference on wartime intelligence work, he became acquainted with two well-known figures: John Edgar Hoover and William Joseph Donovan.

Edgar Hoover, the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), on May 10, 1924, at the age of 29, Hoover, who was only a young lawyer in the Department of Justice, was appointed by President Coolidge as the director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI, the predecessor of the FBI), and it has been 15 years since he developed a small department of only 650 employees under the Department of Justice into the largest federal law enforcement agency in the United States, and even the best in intelligence work.

Li Junhao even knew that Hoover would continue to sit in this seat until he died of "high blood pressure" in his home on May 2, 1972! In his 48 years at the helm of the FBI, the United States has had eight presidents and 16 attorneys general (attorney generals), but he has stood as an evergreen tree and has more power than any subsequent FBI director.

Because of the situation of the expansion of the war, President Roosevelt, who had a premonition that the United States could not stay out of the situation, decided to set up an intelligence agency under the direct control of the president and assume the function of coordinating intelligence, so as to get rid of the current situation of relying entirely on the intelligence forces of the military and various government departments.

The new agency was named the US Intelligence Coordination Agency and was headed by William Joseph Donovan, former assistant secretary of the attorney general. Preparations for the bureau have already begun, but Donovan has only $450,000 from the budget bureau and can only find a few offices in a dilapidated building near the White House to start working.

When Li Junhao noticed these two men, Hoover and Donovan also noticed him, and as career intelligence officers, they certainly knew the special status of this young man in the White House, and they all greeted him very warmly, hoping to make a good impression.

During the meeting, Hoover's attitude was relatively conservative, and the FBI, which he is now in charge of, has a strong enough domestic intelligence force to disagree with the president's decision to establish a new intelligence agency, and of course he will not openly oppose it, but he will not give this new agency any help, so he remains silent most of the time.

Donovan, on the other hand, was very active in the preparation work, but the difficulties in building a new intelligence agency from scratch were too many, and the most important thing was to have sufficient funds and enough professionals, both of which he did not have additional resources, so he needed help urgently.

Therefore, after meeting Brigadier General Panson, a new upstart in the White House, Donovan immediately had a new idea, and in a separate report after the meeting, he applied to Roosevelt to let Brigadier General Panson join the preparation of the new organization......

Roosevelt was very moved when he heard this, of course he knew how much support Pan Sen had behind him, and if he participated in the preparation for the establishment of the Intelligence Coordination Bureau, of course, it would be of great help; But at the same time, he also had doubts in his heart, fearing that the forces behind Pan Sen would infiltrate the new institution and affect the execution of state power. Therefore, he did not decide on the spot, but promised that he would consider it.

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Li Junhao did not know Donovan's calculations, although he knew very well that this intelligence coordination bureau would be renamed the Strategic Intelligence Agency next year, and after World War II it would be reorganized into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and later become the world's largest intelligence and counterintelligence agency, but now this weak agency is not attractive to him.

He was more interested in the FBI's Hoover at this time!

According to rumors, Hoover collected hundreds of thousands of secret archives, ranging from the privacy of the president and his family, scandals involving political dignitaries, covert government operations, persecution of civil rights leaders, to the inside story of domestic and foreign criminal organizations, and the under-the-table transactions of major financial institutions and private companies.

Li Junhao was very interested in these files, and at the same time, he admired Hoover's masterful methods of developing and controlling the huge organization of the FBI, and he was eager to learn how to steal teachers.

(End of chapter)