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counterintelligence. intelligence.
A confrontation between an impenetrable shield and a spear that pierces anything. Information keepers and information miners hide in the light and darkness to dig up information for the organization and the country by any means possible.
Another battlefield where lives come and go.
The information war in the Cold War era could be called a ‘war’.
‘Oil, called black gold, is the top tier among national strategic resources. Counterintelligence and intelligence are essential to protect oil.’
Counterintelligence and espionage are essential.
However, counterintelligence and espionage are still not as professional as in the Cold War era. The imperialist era did not have the highly developed communication equipment as in the Cold War era.
But does that mean there is no communication equipment?
No, communication equipment was definitely there, and counterintelligence and espionage existed before that before deciding whether there was communication equipment.
“President Edison, long time no see.”
Washington DC
Security Office inside the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
I brought President Edison into the new conference room with soundproof walls.
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Only two.
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Only me and President Edison were seated in the conference room.
“Is it President Morgan’s son Raemi? Nice to meet you. I don’t know if I remember seeing you when we were so young, but I’m Edison.”
Thomas Edison.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the president of General Electric (GE), the leading electric company in the United States. A genius inventor and a cold-hearted businessman who gained notoriety for fierce competition with Tesla.
Today, I contacted Chairman Edison to take the first step in counterintelligence and espionage.
The United States, the price of telecommunication equipment.
He smiled kindly at me.
“By the way…..”
Edison lowered the corners of his mouth and looked at me sternly.
“What does the US Treasury do to this middle-aged man in his closet and inventing?
“Oh, it’s not a big deal.”
I smiled.
“Are you interested in a national project that you would like to win an order from the Ministry of Finance?”
“National business?”
Suddenly, Edison’s eyes lit up.
Is it the sense of entrepreneurship? Edison’s eyes brightened as if such a nib had been activated.
After all, there was nothing more exciting for entrepreneurs than a national project.
“Well, it’s not that grandiose. I want to commission the telegraph business.”
“It’s a telegraph business… Where?”
“That’s something I’m going to decide from now on.”
“…?”
Edison tilted his head at my words that didn’t make sense.
“I haven’t decided where to build yet, but you’re saying you came to me?”
“No. It’s not that we haven’t decided on a place for the construction yet. There are definitely places to work. But the Ministry of Finance is not here to just win a contract for construction.”
“…..Hmm.”
Edison crossed his arms in an unknown expression.
“If it’s not a simple construction order, what do you want from General Electric, or me?”
“Honestly, what our treasury wants is a company called General Electric rather than Chairman Edison.”
“Honest.”
General Electric.
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One of the global telegraph companies that penetrates the US, Europe and Asia. If Siemens exists in the German Empire, General Electric exists in the United States.
“I’m trying to set up a company in a joint venture with your company. That’s an off-the-shelf company.”
“……!”
“This is SPV. As a special purpose corporation, we plan to establish a joint venture between the Ministry of Finance and General Electric.”
SPV.
special purpose corporation. In the form of a corporation, often used by public institutions such as the Federal Reserve. A legal entity established for a specific purpose.
There was no corporation of this type to do national business or to work in secret.
Edison slowly pulled up his upper body. His gaze was completely focused on me.
“What is the purpose of incorporation? Isn’t that saying that a special purpose corporation has a special purpose?”
“From here on, it is a paid service.”
I smiled and handed out a copy of the contract.
“Secret oath?”
“Yes, by the way, the cost of breaking this oath of confidentiality is your life. Please sign carefully.”
I leisurely grabbed a glass of water.
Edison looked at me blankly, wondering if the fuse in his head had blown out for a moment.
Quad-!
“…what is this!!!”
Edison rolled his eyes.
You must have been surprised by the sudden hook. I immediately lifted my index finger.
“I can only guarantee one thing. If the president signs this confidentiality agreement, at least the US administration’s national telegraph business will be monopolized by General Electric for the time being.”
“……”
“I’ll risk my life to guarantee it. Well, if it’s evidence… that’s enough.”
I held out a business card.
Edison silently accepted the business card, and his eyes widened.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
It was the president’s business card.
-Dear Thomas Edison.
The business card had his name written in the president’s handwriting.
Edison’s hand trembled.
“……”
shakes
Like a candle flickering in the cool night breeze, Chairman Edison’s eyes sway unobtrusively.
But I don’t lie.
Chairman Edison, who has dealt with his father so far, must feel the weight of this agenda.
‘If I can achieve results with counterintelligence and espionage and connect with the White House, General Electric will literally ascend with wings.’
Some kind of contract with the devil.
Just as the CIA does espionage at the cost of my life, I’m about to start espionage at the Ministry of Finance’s intelligence service.
Who knows if they will preempt the later unified Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Because even in the original history, the CIA was the organization that was derived from the military OSS.
The weight of this agenda.
President Edison knows nothing by now, but he must have felt it from his experience.
Thinking about it easily and holding your hand, your heart will be ripped apart.
For this type of person, this method works.
“It’s very bloody, yes.”
“The fruit that will fall instead is very sweet. I didn’t even say a word that the national telegraph project is limited to Korea. Maybe there are more overseas projects than domestic ones.”
“What? Hahahahaha! What if you say that now! Now, the weight is quite plausible and well balanced.”
President Edison’s face brightened.
The figure of him tying up his hair has disappeared somewhere.
“Okay, let me sign it.”
Sasasak-
Edison shredded his autograph with a fountain pen. A clear handwriting was engraved on the confidentiality oath.
“So let me know. I’m so curious that it’s hard to sit still for a moment.”
“President Edison.”
I seriously lowered my voice.
“Welcome to our Department of Treasury Intelligence.”
The main point was now.
***
“Intelligence? Ha! Now I get the feeling. Why did I risk my life and sign the oath of confidentiality?”
Edison smirked, but looked quite excited.
“This… quite arouses a man’s romance. It’s a topic that’s half a hundred years old, but it makes my heart pound with excitement. A spy or something like that?”
“Yeah, that’s correct, but in a slightly different way.”
I pulled out a map of Venezuela.
“Venezuelans.”
“You know?”
“I know a little about the Great Venezuelan Railway recently funded by the German bank Dasconte-Geselshaft and built by Krupp.”
“Yeah, that’s it.”
I nodded.
“The US Department of the Treasury this time took over Venezuela’s moratorium bonds with the New York Big Bank. It also took over the operation of the Great Venezuelan Railroad.”
“…that big New York bank.”
“Yeah, the New York banks I’ve put a lot of effort into. The biggest creditor is the Detroit Investment Bank. I’ve had tens of millions of dollars in Venezuelan rail bonds alone.”
“But if it’s your cash mobilization power, you’ll have more than enough to chew on it.”
“you’re right.”
As Edison predicted.
I held the majority of the rights to the Great Venezuelan Railroad, so it was like a railroad in my hands.
“And Venezuela is an all-in-one facility that is responsible for the backbone of national communications. All of Venezuela’s core telegrams are transmitted through this telegraph.”
“…Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute.”
Edison paused for a moment.
He frowned and waved his hand.
“Let’s check this first. Hey, if you set up a special purpose corporation, you don’t have any intention of disclosing your stake externally, right?”
“Yes, we plan to treat all of them as top secret from the Ministry of Finance. If it’s a risk, we’ll hand it over with a disguised stake.”
“Disguised stake percentage?”
“It’s a rumor that General Electric is 100% owned, but we don’t officially disclose it to anyone.”
In essence, this special purpose corporation is a subsidiary of General Electric. A subsidiary controlled from behind by the Ministry of Finance’s Intelligence Bureau.
It will not be disclosed to anyone, and there will be a lot of black affairs that come and go.
The Edison started sweating.
“Isn’t that subsidiary a subsidiary that builds telegraph facilities?”
“Not only that, but it also includes the maintenance of telegraph facilities and the construction of radiotelegraphy. Radiotelegraphy is a fairly recent piece of equipment and is the latest technology. That will be what sets our subsidiary apart.”
“Maintenance of wireline telegraph facilities, wireless telegraph facilities, and truncation facilities? You… this.”
“There are plus passwords and security devices.”
Edison is quick-witted.
I got what I wanted at once.
“Yes.”
I laughed softly.
“I’m going to wiretap. Venezuela’s whole country’s communications history.”
Edison’s eyes fluttered violently.
He seemed to feel it only now. Why should I risk my life for this oath of confidentiality?
scale is too large
‘Well, it’s a technique the CIA used well. It’s hard to follow exactly because I’m not an expert, but I can still imitate it.’
Because now is the time.
Even if this is enough, I will eat half of it. Later, when veterans appear, they will gradually develop them. I believe so.
“If you say this…”
I raised my index finger and pressed my lips together.
“Is it a big deal?”
A heavy silence fell between us.
nod.
Eventually, Edison closed his eyes and nodded. I smiled with satisfaction.
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Originally, this had to be pushed with momentum.
“You thought well. Chairman.”
We shook hands.
He put his hand on his forehead and shook it wildly.
“Hah… I’m afraid that someone isn’t President Morgan’s son Raemi.”
There was a faint smile on his lips.
***
Washington DC
The White House.
President Roosevelt’s office.
The White House recently organized a new National Security Council meeting in line with the will of the president. The main body who oversees the meeting is the national security adviser.
He was the president’s secretary at the White House.
“The Treasury Intelligence Bureau seems to be running smoothly as well.”
President Roosevelt tossed the file folder onto the desk.
“President, the newly organized National Security Council is what… In fact, it is nothing but air, but does it have other intentions?”
“Intelligence Bureau.”
“Yes.”
It is too risky to set up a new administrative department that specializes in counterintelligence and espionage only at the strong request of the State Department.
But President Roosevelt felt the need for an intelligence service, so he organized a small meeting at the White House that could be aired at any time.
That’s the National Security Council.
The naming was roughly coined with Detroit, and it was agreed to pilot the State Department’s Intelligence Bureau and the Treasury Department’s Intelligence Bureau to test the usefulness of the intelligence service.
‘Operating in the White House, you can gain authority, and if it becomes infamous, it can be abolished at any time by making it public, so this form would be most appropriate.’
The intelligence service operates independently.
Even the White House passed an executive order granting authority to restrict access to high-class secrets, and separate budgets were paid to each intelligence agency.
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Of course, the amount and usage ledgers are all confidential.
“I’m sure they’ll attract GE from the very beginning. This Detroit kid. I’ve known from the moment I asked for a business card, but the scale has gone crazy. is not it.”
f*ck.
Roosevelt smiled.
“Isn’t that right? Elzer.”
Russell Elser.
He was a former war minister, but was dismissed due to the American War beef scandal and was in hiding as a British Barclays executive.
Detroit appointed him as national security adviser. In the first place, El Store had no choice as his life was mortgaged to Detroit, and Detroit had no one to trust as much as he did.
Elzer’s face has faded so much that it’s hard to believe that he’s been a completely separate person for four or five years.
This also played a big role in recruiting him.
No one can easily recognize
President Roosevelt didn’t even notice when he told me that Detroit was Elzer.
“Oh, should I call you Jackson now?”
Instead, Elzor was renamed and appointed National Security Adviser under the name Jackson.
Aide Elzer sighed afterward.
“Yes, please call me Jackson.”
“It’s not fun.”
“…..”
“I’m kidding. What did the Venezuelan government say?”
“I really like the fact that telegraph facilities are being maintained for free. As long as Secretary Morgan has obtained the de facto right to operate…”
A gleam gleamed in Elser’s eyes.
“Now, all communications in Venezuela can be intercepted by the United States.”
Roosevelt nodded.
As Detroit said, if there was a lot of black gold and oil sleeping there, Venezuela’s espionage was not an option but a necessity.
Communications are controlled by the Treasury, and humans are controlled by the State Department.
Now all Venezuela information will be pouring out like a broken poison into America.
“Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc. If this operation in Venezuela is successful, it will have to be applied to all Latin American countries that the White House will keep an eye on.
Adviser Elzer’s eyes widened.
“Are you going to let the Treasury manage all of that?”
“No. Am I crazy. A good treasury slave… No, use the finance minister as the head of intelligence.”
Roosevelt smirked and waved his hand.
Instead, he raised the corners of his mouth and smiled faintly.
“By that time, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) will be established.”
The United States was gradually moving to the next level.
But the true destination… only Detroit knew.
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