The future CIA is the most powerful intelligence agency in the world. In 1941, the CIA was just established. At that time, Germany attacked the Soviet Union, and the severity of the war in Europe was much beyond the expectations of the United States. So Roosevelt advanced to establish a special intelligence agency, that is, the CIA.
The newly established CIA mainly works on intelligence and counter-espionage, which is different from the CIA in later generations. At this time, the CIA was really protecting the United States. In later generations, wherever there was turmoil, there would be the CIA. If there was no turmoil, the CIA would not mind causing some turmoil.
Chen Qiang knew that the current CIA was mainly responsible for intelligence and counter-espionage, so when they came to him, Chen Qiang also found it very strange.
Of course, Chen Qiang didn't want to be taken away by the CIA. Facing three Cia agents who came with bad people, Chen Qiang directly moved Roosevelt out.
After hearing Roosevelt's name, the three agents were no longer as arrogant as before.
"Mr. Chen, we are conducting a routine investigation and I hope you can cooperate." The agent in charge spoke.
"So you just hope I will assist in the investigation, not to arrest me, right?" Chen Qiang said coldly.
"It's like that. We just hope Mr. Chen can assist in the investigation." The agent led the lead said.
"Okay, please sit in there, three." Chen Qun saw that Agent Cia had surrendered, and took a step back a little and invited the three to his office.
After the guest and host took the seat, Chen Qiang then asked, "What do you want to know about me?"
"Mr. Chen, I heard that you made a lot of money by shorting stocks on Wall Street. Is this true?" the agent in charge asked.
Chen Qiang nodded: "This is no secret. Many securities brokers on Wall Street know that I have had a very exciting trading session. I want to short stocks to make money, which is not a violation of American laws, right? And every penny I make will be taxed in accordance with relevant securities regulations. I can be sure that those are legal income."
"Mr. Chen, we have not denied the legitimacy of making money through the stock market. But should you explain that there are so many stocks to choose from, why would you short the sugar industry stock? Have you known that Japan is going to attack Pearl Harbor?"
Chen Qiang instantly understood that the CIA came to him and it turned out to be related to this matter.
According to the securities brokers' estimates, Chen Qiang could make at least US$20 million in this stock market crash. In 1941, this was an astronomical figure. Many small countries may not have so much wealth, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are rich enough to rival countries. Moreover, this money was earned by using the stock market crash on Wall Street, which is equivalent to making money from the US's national disaster.
Before that, the entire Wall Street felt that the US sugar industry would usher in a spring because of the need to provide food aid to Europe. However, Chen Qiang shorted the sugar industry's stocks at this time. The most important thing is that Japan really went to air strike on Pearl Harbor. If Chen Qiang was just out of luck and had no insider information at all, no one would believe it. No one would be so stupid that he would be out of luck with a huge sum of millions of dollars to bet on whether he would be out of luck in the next few days.
Since Chen Qiang has already had insider information, it is natural for the CIA to investigate Chen Qiang. For example, after the outbreak of the "9/11 Incident", if any capitalist sets up a plan in the stock market in advance and makes a fortune by using the "9/11 Incident", then Americans will definitely doubt you. Is it a group of people who are in the same group as Ben-**? Not to mention investigating, it is not an exaggeration to directly freeze your assets!
Of course, Chen Qiang had known that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor for a long time, but he could not tell Agent Cia that he was a premonition, so Chen Qiangzhi had to explain: "I did guess that Japan would launch an attack on the United States. In fact, as early as the beginning of this year, he knew that Japan would attack the United States."
"Mr. Chen, what do you mean is that you have known that Japan is going to attack Pearl Harbor for a long time?" the agent led by the leader asked sternly.
"No, I just said, I had guessed that Japan would launch an attack on the United States." Chen Qiang paused and continued: "At the beginning of the year, Japanese Navy General Kin-Sheng Okaku-Shen was shot dead in Guangdong, China. At that time, our Chinese intelligence department had already realized that Japan would launch an attack on the United States. Otherwise, a Japanese naval general would not appear in Guangdong. You must know that China has no navy anymore, and the Japanese army has already attacked China's homeland. If it is just to attack China, the Japanese army has no need to dispatch a navy at all, nor does it need to dispatch a navy at all. Therefore, the purpose of the Japanese army must be to deal with your United States."
"What do you mean is that the Chinese intelligence agency analyzed that the Japanese army will launch an attack on the United States?" the agent led by the leader asked immediately.
Chen Qun nodded: "Yes, this is all due to our intelligence department. Moreover, our embassy in the United States has reminded your country's members of parliament many times to be careful of Japanese attacks, but your country's members of parliament obviously believe more about the statement of Japanese ambassador to the United States, Yoshisaburo Nomura, and believes that Japan will not launch an attack on the United States. What I said is not a secret in Washington. You can go to our Chinese embassy to verify and ask them if they have been reminding members of parliament. You can also ask a few members of parliament to see if they have been reminded by our ambassador to the United States."
The three agents looked at each other. Although they had not yet asked the Chinese Embassy in the United States and those members of the United States, they had already guessed that most of what Chen Qiang said was true.
The Chinese Embassy in the United States has been promoting everywhere in Washington that Japan will launch an attack on the United States, and it has been a long time since they were not allowed to hear about it. However, everyone regards the warning of the Chinese Embassy as an anti-Japanese political propaganda, and no one believes that what the Chinese Embassy is saying is true.
Chen Qun's remarks were half true, but they were reasonable. However, such investigation results obviously did not satisfy the three Cia agents. We cannot write a report saying that the Chinese issued a warning several months in advance, because we Americans did not believe it, and were beaten up by the Japanese.
Suddenly, the agent led by the leader had a sudden inspiration. Thinking of the loophole in Chen Qiang's words, he immediately spoke: "Mr. Chen, since you learned at the beginning of the year that the Japanese would launch an attack on the United States, why did you not start selling stocks until the end of the year? Why did you have no action in this whole year? You just had to wait until Japan's air strike on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base to start selling short?"
Chen Qiang smiled and replied calmly: "At the beginning of the year, when I learned from our embassy that the Japanese would launch an attack on the United States, I didn't have that much money in my hands, so I didn't involve the stock market. The money I earned from selling hula hoops and invested in the bowling business. You can check this point at Beckland Company. If I don't have money in my hands, I will naturally not sell short stocks. There is another more important point..."
"What is it?" the agent in charge asked immediately.
"I didn't know that short-selling stocks could make money. To be honest, I just learned last month that the stock market could make money by short-selling." Chen Qiang replied.
"Mr. Chen, this excuse is not very clever, right?" the agent in charge spoke.
Chen Qiang explained calmly: "Last month, I recovered a large amount of funds. At that time, I had money, so I planned to buy a house and invest in real estate. In the end, I valued Elizabeth Donald's company to buy an apartment building. When I was negotiating business with the other party's boss, Mr. Fred ***, I accidentally talked about the stock market. Mr. *** told me that I could make money by selling short stocks. From then on, I realized that there was such a stock operation, so I invested most of the funds in the stock market. You can go to Mr. *** to verify what I said."
Chen Qiang's explanation was completely invisible, and there were also witnesses, which made the three Cia agents feel that they were unable to start.
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Chen Qiang has Roosevelt, the big backer, and the three Cia agents dare not act badly at Chen Qiang. After they asked, they had to say goodbye and leave.
"Team leader, what the Chinese said sounds true, and he has witnesses. Do we still have to continue pursuing this line?" a subordinate asked.
"Of course we need to investigate!" The agent in the lead nodded firmly, and he continued: "We have just been established. The FBI is eyeing us, believing that we have robbed their jobs, so we must make some achievements. We are the first agents of the CIA. If we can obtain breakthrough intelligence, we will definitely win the favor of Director Donovan, and promotion is sure to be successful."
The CIA is a temporary department established after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Donovan, the first director of the CIA, started working in several dilapidated buildings near the White House with a grant of 450,000 US dollars from the Budget Agency. It may be hard for people in the future to imagine that the world's largest intelligence organization would be so miserable at the beginning of its establishment.
Before the establishment of the CIA, intelligence and counter-espionage work were always under the responsibility of the FBI and the US Army Intelligence Department. After the establishment of the CIA, the FBI Director Hoover obviously believed that the CIA had robbed their FBI jobs, so the FBI and the CIA had never dealt with each other. The two directors, Hoover and Donovan, even quarreled in front of Roosevelt for a Axis codebook secretly photographed by British spies.
Although Roosevelt finally made it clear that both intelligence and counter-espionage work were left to the CIA, the CIA was too small and too weak compared to the behemoth of the FBI. If Roosevelt had not supported it, the CIA would have been undermined by the FBI within one day.
It is precisely for this reason that CIA agents hope to crack a big case or obtain important intelligence, so that the CIA can be proud and not always be suppressed by the FBI.
So three Cia agents asked Beckland and Old *** one after another. Beckland confirmed that Chen Qiang invested in the bowling business in the first half of the year, and only recently received the profit of selling bowling. Old *** can also prove that when he was discussing business in a cafe that day, he told Chen Qiang that stocks can be short-selled to make money.
There was no gain in New York, and the three investigators returned to Washington.
The Chinese Embassy does not need to investigate at all. In the past period of time, Hu Shi, who has lost real power, has done the most, to visit members of Congress everywhere and promote Japan's attack on the United States.
Japanese Ambassador to the United States Yoshisaburo Nomura is also doing similar things. He also constantly visits members of Congress and then publicizes that Japan will focus on occupying China and has no idea about the Far East outside China.
Since Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Yoshisaburo Nomura has not enjoyed the treatment of diplomats. He was directly arrested by the United States and then imprisoned. The United States then found hundreds of encrypted telegrams in the Japanese embassy, ​​all of which were Nomura Yoshisaburo's contact with Japan.
So the three Cia agents planned to start from this aspect. 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 that Chen Qiang could short the stock before Pearl Harbor was attacked.
However, just three days later, the CIA director Donovan personally issued an order asking them to stop the investigation.
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In a dilapidated building near the White House, this is the temporary office of the CIA.
"Director, why do we stop investigating? This matter is so strange. The Chinese shorted the sugar industry's stock at such a critical time. He is making money from the US's national crisis! You don't think these are all coincidences, right?" said the investigator.
Director Donovan sighed: "It's not that I don't want to investigate, but that we can't continue to investigate. Several members of Congress heard that we found the Japanese embassy and began to put pressure on me one after another. They didn't want us to continue to investigate."
"Why?" the agent asked in confusion.
"These members of Congress were very close to Japanese ambassador to the United States, Yoshisaburo Nomura. They believed that Japan's offensive focus was on China and would not launch an attack on us. Facts have proved that they were wrong. If they found out that they were involved with the Japanese, their political career would end!" Donovan explained.
The agent understood instantly.
Nomura Yoshisaburo's diplomatic offensive in the United States was very successful, so in the past few months, there have been many members of Congress who have kindness towards Nomura Yoshisaburo. If they are held accountable, these members who once believed Nomura Yoshisaburo were also accomplices of the Japanese air strikes on Pearl Harbor. It is precisely because they believed Nomura Yoshisaburo that the United States was not prepared for Japan and could Japan successfully attack Pearl Harbor. If they had listened to Hu Shi's words and had more restrictions on the Japanese, perhaps the US military's Pearl Harbor base would not have become so miserable.
In the United States, it is full of excitement. Every American can't wait to seek revenge on the Japanese. Janet Rankin's vote against declaring war on Japan directly ended her political career. If any member of Congress dared to speak for the Japanese, it would definitely be regarded as a "American traitor" by the American people.
So at this time, the members of Congress who had a good relationship with Yoshisaburo Nomura were all worried that someone would come up with old accounts and reveal the incidents that they had met with Yoshisaburo Nomura. So they began to do everything possible to stop the CIA's investigation. And the more pro-Japanese faction was, the more they had to show anti-Japanese at this time, so that they could protect their political career.
In the end, the CIA investigation was left alone, and Chen Qiang also took the money from the US national disaster with peace of mind and made $20 million.
Chapter completed!