Hoover was also interested in Brigadier General Panson, but after briefly exploring the other party's background, he immediately stopped all investigations, knowing that this young man was not something he could touch!

Of course, for his part, he will not object to befriending Panson, on the contrary, he is willing to establish a good personal relationship with him. So, at the end of the meeting and when he left the White House, he invited Li Junhao to dinner.

Li Junhao wanted to go to the appointment, but Ayres was calling him over, and he could only agree on the arrangement of the time later, this attitude was enough for Hoover, and the time was still long!

Ayres called him into his office and asked him what he thought of intelligence work, especially if he had any constructive views on the Directorate of Intelligence Coordination, which the President had decided to establish.

Li Junhao smiled and said directly: "Uncle, if this bureau is only used as a coordinating body, there is no need to establish it separately at all. Now that Mr. Roosevelt had decided to establish an intelligence agency under the direct control of the president, he should have set its goals and scale from the outset, and should take the path of regularization and independence, so that it would have the ability to collect and analyze intelligence on its own, to plan and execute covert operations, and to make reasonable suggestions on the development of events, rather than waiting until it was really needed to supplement and improve it......"

Ayers Xiu listened to this passage seriously, and asked another question: "Ogur, do you think Donovan has the ability to complete the formation of the organization?" ”

"This ......" Li Junhao hesitated for a moment, and decided to tell the truth, "Donovan is a good executor, but he lacks sufficient background support and the ability to establish horizontal relationships, especially it is difficult for him to gain the trust of powerful figures in the military, and it is even more difficult to confront the FBI that has a large number of intelligence resources under the existing conditions...... In other words, Donovan was no match for Hoover! ”

"Do you mean that if you want to complete the formation of this independent intelligence agency, you should choose someone with a stronger background, military support, and who can stand up to the FBI's Director Hoover?" Ayers pondered.

"Well, yes." Li Junhao said, "I think you or Admiral Leahy are more suitable to be the director." ”

Hearing this, Ayers' eyes lit up, not that he wanted to be the director, but that he felt that Admiral Leahy was very suitable for this position, but Leahy is currently serving as a military representative and military adviser, and I am afraid it will be difficult to concurrently serve as this director! ——

That evening, at a meeting of the four advisers convened by Roosevelt in the president's office, National Security Adviser Ayers spoke of his exchange with Mr. Lee, expressing his proposal to turn a simple intelligence coordination agency into an independent intelligence agency in the hands of the president.

This suggestion was endorsed by the military adviser, Admiral Leahy, and the legal adviser, Tosh Pena, but Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who was the president's ex officio diplomatic adviser, disagreed, arguing that there were enough intelligence services in the domestic military and various government agencies at the moment, and that even the State Department had a separate Diplomatic Security Bureau! Under these circumstances, there is no need for an independent intelligence service, which would be clearly a large organization.

Roosevelt was obviously tempted, the idea of this independent intelligence agency was simply too much to his heart, and he did not want to ask the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), DSS (Diplomatic Security Service), ONI (Naval Intelligence Agency) and other intelligence agencies for intelligence information after encountering any emergency, which was also the original intention of his previous intention to set up the Intelligence Coordination Bureau.

But now, having listened to Ayers' advice from Panson, he felt that the establishment of an independent intelligence agency that would be accountable only to him would be more in line with his wishes. Yes, this Panson is really good! He's happy with it now.

Roosevelt spoke: "Ladies and gentlemen, if we are to establish a new intelligence agency with this goal in mind, do you think Mr. Donovan is fit to be the leader of the new agency?" ”

Ailes thought for a moment and turned the previous words of Li Junhao into his own words.

Legal counsel Pena is a tenured law professor at Harvard University, wearing glasses and looking very Sven, although he is only 48 years old, the youngest in the room, but his rich legal work experience makes him very accurate in seeing people, so he recognizes Ayles' evaluation of Donovan.

Admiral Leahy nodded, agreeing.

Secretary Hull didn't know much about Donovan, but he knew Ayles well and knew that he never spoke without purpose, and since he said that Donovan was not suitable, he should be right.

President Roosevelt, of course, was aware of this, and he had only chosen Donovan to set up a coordinating body, but now that the situation has changed, he is naturally not the most suitable person.

With this understanding in mind, it was natural to choose a new person - because of the special requirements of the intelligence service, its head must be absolutely loyal and reliable, and this time it is necessary to have a good personal relationship with President Roosevelt and be able to communicate effectively with each other. As a result, there aren't many options.

Roosevelt asked the four advisers to propose candidates, and while Pena and Hull were still thinking, Ayres and Leahy pointed at each other almost at the same time and said, "I think William (Nelsson) is the most suitable!" ”

Seeing the two of them like this, the others couldn't help but laugh and nodded their heads, indeed, these two are very suitable candidates.

Ailes also smiled, raised his hand and said: "Franklin, in some ways, I admit that Leahy is the first choice, I am barely one, and in addition, Professor Tosh is also suitable, and Cordell's current position is very important, so I will not consider it; But all three of us have a common weakness, that is, none of them have experience in intelligence work, which is a huge problem for the preparation of a highly independent intelligence agency! ”

This view is certainly correct, and people can only think of others.

Roosevelt's heart suddenly moved, and he said, "I think Ogg is good!" ”

Ogy? Everyone immediately thought of Ognyan Lee Pansen, they have all seen how he controlled the situation of the concession within two years after arriving in Shanghai, and even took care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of the 4 million residents in the concession, and he presided over the formation of the joint command, the civilian army self-defense corps and other military forces, and even served in the Naval Intelligence Bureau, providing a large amount of important information for the country in a short period of time......

In these respects, there should be no problem at all for Panson to preside over the formation of a new intelligence agency.

(End of chapter)