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Chapter 991 Obtaining Documents Secretly
In Suzuki Kantaro's mansion, the corridor separated from the banquet hall by a wall is extremely quiet, and the thick door panels keep out all the noise and music.

On the walls full of Western style, wall lamps every few meters emit faint light, and the dark red carpet reflects strangely in the interlaced light and dark.

At this time, two guards passed by the "T" shaped intersection at the end of the corridor, and one of them stood there and raised his flashlight to take a picture, and continued to patrol forward after confirming that there was nothing abnormal.

After more than ten seconds, a person jumped from the beam of the corridor ceiling. After landing, the person rolled forward twice, relieving the impact of falling from a high place.

The thick carpet absorbed the movement from the other party. Under the dim light, the figure slowly raised his head to reveal his face. It was Sorge who was in the banquet hall just now.

No one would have imagined that a reporter from the German "Frankfurt Zeitung" would have such a superb skill, which was not inferior to the elite agents of the second department of the General Staff Headquarters.

No one knew that in the mountain city of the Republic of China thousands of kilometers away, a piece of information about Sorge was quietly lying in the safe of the deputy director's office at No. 29 Luojiawan Military Command Headquarters.

Richard Sorge.

Born in Baku, Transcaucasia, Tsarist Russia in 18┴95, his father was German and his mother was Russian. In 18┴98, the family returned to Berlin.

In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the European War, the 19-year-old Sorge volunteered to join the German artillery unit. Two years later, he was seriously wounded while fighting on the Western Front.

In the years after the war, Sorge's whereabouts were uncertain. He settled in Frankfurt for a while, where he met many business people and established many useful contacts.

Later, he completely disappeared in Germany, but in 1928 he suddenly published a right-wing book called "New German Imperialism", which caused a small sensation in the Western world.

In 1929, Sorge joined a bearded organization and obtained a German passport. He also won the title of special correspondent of the "Deutsche Grain Zeitung" and a contribution contract for a sociological magazine.

After that, Sorge came to the Republic of China, went to Shanghai and Northeast China successively, stayed in these two places for a long time, and gained an in-depth understanding of the situation in the Republic of China.

In 1933, he met with the Japanese ambassador to the United States in Washington, and obtained a letter of introduction from the other party to meet with the director of the Intelligence Department of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, preparing to enter Japan.

It was that year that Sorge arrived in Yokohama and started his career as a reporter. He often published articles related to the underground party, and gradually became a well-known expert on underground party issues.

As the relationship between Japan and Germany is getting closer, for reasons of wooing, many Japanese upper-level figures have become friends with him, allowing him to have access to important information on Japan's military and political affairs.

This is Sorge's experience on the surface, and the information in the military safe is so far. It seems that he is a reporter and writer with some connections in Japan.

But in fact, Sorge was already a member of the Fourth Bureau of the Red Russian General Staff in charge of military intelligence in the late 20s, and directly accepted the command of the director of the Fourth Bureau, the legendary Red Russian intelligence expert Berzin.

His specific task is to set up an intelligence network in Japan. Ever since Japan interfered with Red Russia in the 20s and accommodated the remnants of White Russia, Red Russia has regarded Japan as the most dangerous enemy in the East.

Coupled with the historical grievances and grievances between the two countries, it has become an important task for the Red Russian intelligence agencies to find out the trends of the Japanese decision-makers.

Before entering the job, Sorge received several years of training in secret infiltration, radio detection, code deciphering, and operational technology, and became a qualified intelligence officer.

It is worth mentioning that this fourth round has another name, that is, the GRU, the Red Russian intelligence agency that is as famous as NK┴VD, and its motto is "Only the stars cannot reach it."

Unlike NK┴VD, the GRU is very good at using actions to obtain intelligence, its style is more "violent", and it also performs missions behind enemy lines, so it is very normal for Sorge to have such skills.

Looking back at Tokyo, Sorge squatted on the ground, listened to the direction in which the two guards were leaving, got up after a while, straightened his collar, and walked in the opposite direction calmly.

He quickly recalled the internal structure of Suzuki's mansion in his mind, walked up a staircase without stopping, and headed towards Suzuki Kantaro's study on the second floor at the fastest speed.

As a confidant of Tianlocust and the former commander of the United Fleet, Suzuki Kantaro has access to the top-secret documents of the Japanese military, and that is the purpose of his and Ozaki's coming here today.

Ever since they learned at the Second Office of Saiyuanji that the Japanese high-level officials knew that Zhukov had become the commander of the 57th Army, and thus changed the deployment of the Japanese army in the Far East, they have been looking for opportunities to obtain the Japanese combat plan.

But this level of strategic intelligence is only in the hands of a small number of people. Although Sorge has also developed some intelligence agents in the past few years, the status of these people is too low, and they have worked hard for a long time and still have nothing.

As for those "friends" in high positions, such as Konoe Fumiya, they would never disclose such important information, and using the banquet to search Suzuki Kantaro's study became the only opportunity.

Since most of the servants of the Suzuki family were serving the guests in the banquet hall at this time, and there were few people walking around in other places, Sorge escaped several waves of careless guards and came to a beautifully decorated wooden door.

He leaned against the door tightly, opened his arms and groped along the door frame, making sure that there were no safety marks, then looked vigilantly at the left and right sides, and pulled out two metal needles from his sleeves.

Perhaps because of the confidence in the guards, or because he thought that no thief would dare to steal from the Suzuki family, there was only a tumbler lock on the door of Suzuki Kantaro's office.

The security of this kind of lock is very low, as long as the keyhole is fixed, and then the length of the internal pins is changed with a tool, until the pins of different lengths are all aligned, the lock can be unlocked.

Sorge put the steel needles into the keyhole, one locked the keyhole, and the other slowly pressed the pin, and kept trying by analogy, and the pin lock was opened after three or two efforts.

He gently pushed the door open, and the well-maintained door hinge did not make any sound. After a few seconds, the front of the quiet porch became empty, leaving only a faint layer of moonlight.

Inside the dark study.

Sorge did not immediately search for the documents, but used the cloth strips he had prepared to stuff the bottom of the door tightly so that the guards would not see figures or lights from the door.

Then he confirmed that the curtains were closed and the lights in the room could not be seen from the outside, so he took out a flashlight from his pocket and turned it on, carefully checking behind the door and under his feet.

Apparently, the servant of the Suzuki family was very conscientious, the floor was spotless, not even a single strand of hair, then he took off his leather shoes and carried them in his hands to the desk on the other side of the room to avoid leaving footprints.

Walking on the cold floor, Sorge watched the movement outside the door, lowered the flashlight and observed the furnishings of the study, and soon came to the large desk.

The order of intelligence collection has always been easy before difficult, starting with the easiest part first, so that once the operation is interrupted, at least it can be ensured that it will not return in vain.

So, Sorge gave up the safe under the desk and the bookcase next to the wall. He quickly memorized the placement of the items, and put on his gloves to search quickly in the file box on the table.

"Finance Book of the Ministry of Finance"

"Domestic Intelligence Proof"

Combined Fleet Training Summary

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Sorge couldn't believe his eyes. Suzuki Kantaro just put the highly confidential documents on the desk. Is this a trap?
But there was no sound outside the door, maybe the other party was so used to it, he didn't have time to think about it, suppressed the doubts in his heart, and quickened his movements.

Just as he was rummaging through the last few documents, suddenly, a document bag from the General Staff Headquarters came into his eyes with the label "Extremely Confidential".

"Far East Conflict Response"

Looking at the words on the file bag, Sorge stabilized his mind, put one end of the flashlight in his mouth and bit his teeth, picked up the file bag with both hands and turned it over, and immediately found that the seal of the bag had been opened.

He looked at his watch and found that it had been seven or eight minutes since he started to act. He immediately took out a stack of documents from his file bag and put them on the table. A page of documents was pushed down on the watch handle.

This is certainly not an ordinary pocket watch. This is a pocket camera made by the British in 1904. Although the structure is primitive, it is very reliable and the appearance can be camouflaged.

In the silent shutter, Sorge opened the documents one by one, then held the pocket watch tightly with both hands, and took pictures of all the above contents under the illumination of the flashlight.

While taking pictures, he also verified the authenticity of the documents, checking all the writing habits, professional titles, typewriter spacing, and seals in the documents.

After confirming that all the details were consistent with the Japanese military documents he had seen elsewhere, Sorge was finally relieved and took less than a minute to complete the document and restore it to its original state.

After completing the most important task, he found that there was still time, and the camera’s 25 negatives were not used up. Sorge opened another document, spread it on the table, raised the camera and pressed the shutter.

Ten minutes passed quickly.

The banquet downstairs has come to an end, the guests are full of wine and food, and the atmosphere is becoming more and more enthusiastic, Ozaki quietly glanced at his watch, stood up from his seat and joined the crowd again.

Soon there was a conflict in the crowd caused by a collision. This time, there was no need to remind, the surrounding guards immediately surrounded them to separate the troublemakers.

Hayashi Fuichiro heard the sound and looked, and immediately saw Ozaki and Sorge among the onlookers, who seemed to have nothing to do. He lowered his head and whispered a few words to Suzuki Sonoko, and strode towards the small door.

When order was restored in the banquet hall, he was already standing in the toilet of Suzuki Kantaro's study, watching the "very secret" document turn into a pile of ashes in the toilet, and then pulled the drawstring of the water tank to completely eliminate the possibility of false information. The last trace.

(End of this chapter)