#867 Watchdog Struggle (1)
"Richard, do you know that WikiLeaks broke the news again?"
Richard Durbin's voice was stern, "I know that the people in the CIA are going crazy now, this Julian Assange is really non-stop."
Yang Cheng didn't go around the corner, and directly stated Kari's request, "Kari wants to have an interview with you. He is preparing to launch an action against the leaker and needs your support."
Richard Durbin thought for a while, and he knew what Cary was thinking, "He is really focused on climbing up, but he'd better not get involved in this matter, after all, it involves the CIA, and Comey's The attitude is very ambiguous, I am afraid he also has his own ideas."
Yang Cheng frowned, "Comey also has ideas? What is he going to do? Isn't he taking the opportunity to start a war with the CIA?"
The reason why he said this is because there are precedents to follow. As early as three years ago, Comrade Guan Hai was successfully re-elected. It stands to reason that the headline position of the American media should have been reserved for Comrade Guan Hai who had only been re-elected for three days. It was occupied by David Petraeus without warning, because the boss of the CIA stepped down due to the scandal.
And the only one who can bring down Director C~I~A is his nemesis F~B~I.
Originally, General Petraeus had a promising future and was trained as an important reserve force. Moreover, as a Ph.D. The commander of the Central Command, the commander of the army stationed in the United States, and the director of the CIA, he has a good reputation in the two terms of the US military, and he is likely to embark on the road of being elected to the senator in the future.
It's just that all of this came to an abrupt end after he was investigated for having an extramarital affair. Of course, this in itself is not a big problem. There are not many Americans from top to bottom who have never had an affair. Both men and women are the same, just being a person Mistakes are infinitely magnified, and that is unforgivable.
The first to investigate Petraeus was an F~B~I agent named Frederick Humphreys, who also made a name for himself in the affair, commissioned by his friend Jill Kelly.
Jill Kelly is a socialite. She has received several anonymous threatening emails in a row. The content of the emails is to tell her to "stay away from Petraeus". Rodwell.
Later, during the investigation process, a series of more complicated relationships surfaced. In the end, a hot reality show was staged in which the F~B~I little agent brought down the chief C~I~A chief, but I was really shocked The chin of the people who eat melons.
Regarding the entire process of this matter, almost everyone who is qualified to have access to more information knows that the matter is not that simple. The evidence and case logic listed in the process are very good, so everyone concludes that there must be something else behind it.
Otherwise, what qualifications does an ordinary F~B~I detective have to mobilize resources to investigate C~I~A boss?
Even the homeless on the streets of Los Angeles know how deep the conflict between the two watchdogs F~B~I and C~I~A goes, and over the decades, friction between the two institutions has repeatedly morphed into Infighting, at some point, even once endangered the security of the United States.
All kinds of grievances have continued to this day, not to mention getting rid of a director, wanting to trample on the other party like a dog, this is the only thing in common between the two families.
In fact, in many Hollywood blockbusters about spies and agents, F~B~I and C~I~A give people the impression that they are profound and mysterious,
Surveillance, eavesdropping, investigation, and tracking, all the agents in the movie seem to be responsive and omnipotent. Their work is carried out in secret and always hidden in the dark. Only after the results are exposed to the media, the whole story Only then is it known.
A best-selling book in the United States, "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus", has a saying: Men are more rational and concrete, women are more free and abstract, so men are from Mars and women are from Venus.
In Yang Cheng's view, F~B~I agents are like men from Mars. They like concrete rationality, dislike abstraction and imagination, and pursue quantifiable things. For F~B~I, the criterion for success is to pass Measure it by arresting a person, cracking a case, and filing a lawsuit.
On the contrary, C~I~A members are more like women from Venus. They pursue freedom, even if there are regulations, they seldom abide by them. They focus on flexible development and long-term intelligence relationships. The measure of success is the accuracy of intelligence predictions.
F~B~I’s requirements for recruiting agents are to value the rules, require no criminal records, and pass various tests, including background tests, physical fitness tests, and polygraph tests. The top of the school, whose mission is to catch the bad guys into prison;
But if you want to join C~I~A, the requirements are much lower. Apart from being 18 years old, having a college degree, and being able to speak foreign languages, you don’t need to pass too many test thresholds. They mainly help the leaders of the US ZF They have a better and faster understanding of what threats other countries have implemented or are about to implement against the United States. Of course, they are also good at conspiring.
This also caused the two agents to often have conflicts when they met at work, because they were not the same kind of people, which made it very difficult to communicate. To put it more vividly, F~B~I must pass The law is used to complete the task, but C~I~A will use all means to complete the task, and often violate the legal system to do things. They only pursue the result and don't care about the process. How can the rigid and conservative F~B~I accept this?
The huge differences and missions of the two institutions have attracted two types of talents to join. In the process of carrying out their tasks, they gradually created two different institutional cultures, and the cultural conflict is the essence.
F~B~I's idea of cracking the case must be based on reasonable grounds, not just suspicion and speculation. What F~B~I wants is a clear clue that can be verified; but for C~I~A, suspicion And speculation is the "fuel" for their continuous work. Compared with a single fact, C~I~A pays more attention to the connection between multiple facts. They integrate the collected intelligence fragments to conceive the whole picture of the matter .
C~I~A members are very careful to protect their "informants" because these "informants" have important information in their hands, and many C~I~A officials feel it is their duty to protect their informants from persecution so that it is easy to fall into a paranoid state-except for "informants", they will not disclose information to anyone outside the agency, because the nature of intelligence is exactly the opposite of news, and the fewer people it requires to know, the more Reliable and safe, this is the original reason for the poor communication between C~I~A and F~B~I.
The well-known "September 11 Incident", pushed forward 3 years, that is, in 1998, C~I~A once provided F~B~I with a piece of information, however, this piece of information was submerged in F~B~ ~I numerous documents.
The content of this piece of information is that a group of Arab terrorists may be planning to maneuver a plane full of explosives through American landmarks.
At that time, the reason why F~B~I put aside the information was that this information neither had any evidence to support this terrorist plan, nor did it have any field investigations, let alone the source and way of obtaining it.
It is impossible for C~I~A to provide the content of this evidence, because it would jeopardize C~I~A's ability to continue to obtain intelligence.
But for F~B~I, a mere vague prediction with no verifiable sources is useless.
The huge institutional and cultural differences between the two organizations are fully reflected in this. There is no doubt that the poor communication of information this time should bear a large part of the responsibility for failing to prevent the occurrence of the "9~11 Incident".
Since the "September 11 Incident" caused great harm to the American people, the common mission of protecting the United States from terrorist attacks has forced the two agencies to try to cooperate. The US Congress has repeatedly called for the reform of intelligence agencies.
However, the institutional cultures of the two institutions are so different that cooperation has thus far been difficult to progress.
In the history of the United States, in addition to the "9.11" in 2001, there are two more typical vicious incidents caused by the institutional culture conflict between the FBI and the CIA.
One is the assassination of Kennedy, because C~I~A belittled F~B~I's intelligence sources.
Some historians in the United States believe that the "connection problem" between F~B~I and C~I~A caused Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and the investigation of the truth of the incident afterwards was due to the internal struggle between the two And to no avail.
The focus of this incident was the former Soviet defected agent Yuri Noshenko, and F~B~I and C~I~A clashed over whether this person was loyal or not.
Noshenko said that Lee Oswald, the assassin of JFK, was monitored by the KGB, but the KGB never tried to recruit him. It implies that the former Soviet Union was involved in the assassination.
At this time, the defector code-named "Fedora" controlled by F~B~I confirmed Noshenko's statement, but the complication is that "Fedora" was finally regarded as a double material working for the former Soviet Union. A spy, and two polygraph tests conducted by C~I~A proved that Noshenko was lying about Oswald.
As a result, F~B~I and C~I~A had disagreements in their judgments. F~B~I believed that Noshenko was telling the truth, while C~I~A was convinced that he was lying to protect Moscow.
In 1970, F~B~I and C~I~A confirmed their respective judgments through witness testimony obtained from different sources. When the conflict reached its peak, F~B~I’s director and founder Hoover called Called President Nixon and asked him what he thought of the report provided by F~B~I. Nixon replied that he never received the report.
Only then did Hoover find out that the C~I~A counterintelligence department claimed that it was false information and withheld it. Hoover was extremely angry. You know, C~I~A has been belittling the entire F~B~ I's intelligence source, but I didn't expect to completely overthrow this matter.
This is also the beginning of a complete tear between the two organizations. Since this incident, the struggle between the two organizations has never stopped. It is commonplace for each other to mess with each other's leading brother.
Richard Debin can understand Yang Cheng's doubts, and the fact is the same. Comey really wants to trip C~I~A, this time C~I~A's own intelligence personnel made a big oolong, if he If you don't seize the opportunity, you won't be able to claim to be Hoover's first son in the future.
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