"You guessed it right," Sato nodded, "According to the usual practice, our special high school will place some agents in the embassies in various countries. Of course, the list is divided into two copies, a simplified version and a detailed version. The simplified version will be announced to
The official Soviet Union has the detailed version ourselves, and what is lost is the detailed version.”
Geng Chaozhong nodded. The so-called simplified version and the detailed version are actually the embassy staff on the surface and the spies planted secretly. The detailed version has more names than the simplified version. As long as the other party gets the detailed version, it is easy to pass the simplified version.
The missing personnel in the version identify spies planted by the Empire.
"How did it happen?" Geng Chaozhong frowned.
"The discovery of this incident was purely accidental," Sato briefly introduced the situation. "According to practice, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a large number of documents that need to be destroyed every day, including official documents from various countries, personnel lists, expired foreign affairs strategy files, etc., the number
Quite huge. Every once in a while, the Logistics Management Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will use trucks to take expired documents to the countryside and burn them, but the police town found that many documents that should have been destroyed appeared in a French restaurant in Shinjuku District.
Inside the cafe. Later, Jingshi Town investigated and found that the owner of this cafe was secretly engaged in intelligence trading. We invited him to Jingshi Town, and he confessed that these documents were sold to him by a woman."
"Woman?" Geng Chaozhong said to himself.
"Yes, a tall Japanese woman," Sato nodded slowly, "At this time, the police town has not realized the seriousness of the problem, because although those documents are important, most of them are time-sensitive and are actually of little value.
It’s too big.”
"But later," Sato's face also showed a solemn look, "when the police town informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the matter and urged them to pay attention to confidentiality, something happened. A person from the Logistics Management Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The staff member committed suicide."
"Suicide?" Geng Chaozhong was surprised.
"Yes, committed suicide. In his office, I found some documents that should have been destroyed long ago, including the ones we lost." Sato let out a sigh of relief.
"Shouldn't this kind of list be destroyed on the spot?" Geng Chaozhong had a look of confusion on his face.
Even confidential files are divided into different levels. Confidential files involving intelligence collection personnel should not be destroyed centrally and uniformly like other files, but should be archived or destroyed on-site.
"In fact, it should be destroyed on the spot, but some officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs do not have such a strong sense of confidentiality." Sato couldn't help but smile bitterly. "This list requires the cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when dispatching personnel. Logically speaking,
It should be destroyed immediately after use, but some officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs found it troublesome and handed it over to the people in the Logistics Department for unified processing, and then...an accident happened."
"Have you followed this line to investigate?" Geng Chaozhong asked intently.
"Yes, it was found out that the dead logistics officer also had contact with a woman. His colleagues had seen this woman driving a Ford car. According to the description, she should be the same as the one who sold the document to the bar owner.
Women are the same."
"This is interesting," Geng Chaozhong said with a sneer, "It's very Soviet style."
"Yes, the European intelligence school likes to exchange intelligence through places like cafes and bars, and also likes to use women to obtain intelligence. In addition, the missing list is related to Moscow, so we immediately suspected
They are the Soviets." Sato nodded and said, "When the matter reached this point, the police town felt that it could not handle it, so it left the matter in the hands of our Special Higher Education Department."
"Is there any action in Moscow?" Geng Chaozhong considered his words.
"No, so we can't be sure that it was the Soviets who did it. But even if it was the Soviets, they wouldn't do it now. After all, killing our people directly would not do them any good. It would be better to monitor and control it secretly." Sato
answer.
Geng Chaozhong nodded, this is a common practice. Even if the enemy sends spies like this, they will not touch them even if they know the situation. After all, if they kill a group of spies, the other side will send another group.
"We will gradually replace the personnel sent to Moscow. Now your task is to find out the cause of the leak as soon as possible." Sato shook his finger. "There is some information and a list of suspects in the file bag. You start investigating. Manpower
On the other hand, you can pick a few capable students from among your students and come to me to apply for a pass."
"Hi Yi." Geng Chaozhong nodded in agreement, but there was some hesitation in his expression.
"What, is there a problem?" Sato saw Geng Chaozhong's hesitation.
"The students have just completed basic military training and I'm afraid they won't be competent in a short time." Geng Chaozhong answered truthfully.
"It's not that important whether you are competent or not," Sato smiled. "The key is that the Soviets have been lurking in the empire for a long time. No one knows whether they have placed spies in the police town, using newcomers from Mitsui Iron Works.
Confidentiality is better."
"Okay," Geng Chaozhong's expression relaxed, "The subordinate is going down."
"No," Sato waved his hand to stop Geng Chaozhong from leaving, "Don't take the files away, just look at them here. You can go out at any time if you need to check them."
"Okay." Geng Chaozhong agreed and began to look down at the file carefully.
The content in the file was quite detailed. It seemed that the police town had done a lot of work. It included some clues about the woman and some clues about the Ford car. But soon, the car was found to have crashed in a suburb of Tokyo.
At the cliff, the clues are interrupted.
Attached to the end of the case file is a sketch drawn by the French owner of the bar. The sketch is of the woman who sold him the document. The sketch shows a woman wearing a white top hat and her face covered by a white gauze.
The woman only showed her pointed chin.
It's really hard to tell anything based on this alone.
"This, I'm afraid, is a bit difficult." Geng Chaozhong couldn't help scratching his hair after reading the entire case file.
"It's precisely because it's difficult that I'm looking for you," Sato smiled. "Anyway, we have to do it as soon as possible. The longer the time goes, the harder it will be to find out. I hope you will try your best, Date-kun."
"Hey, I will try my best!" Geng Chaozhong stood up.
"You can let Watanabe take charge of school affairs. For specific courses, such as the course "China Intelligence Detailed", you can exchange it with other teachers and try not to delay the course. But the main focus should be on this for the time being.
On the case - the police town handed over this case to us, you should understand what it means."
"Hey, I understand! I won't let the police town underestimate our special high school class!" Geng Chaozhong nodded again.