Rebirth of England.

Chapter 750 Candidates

"After investigation and analysis, those people are likely intelligence personnel from the United States..."

"CIA?"

Hearing Barron's words, Nigel Inkster nodded:

“That’s the way they do things.”

In recent times, especially after the Rothschild family suffered a blow, Barron returned to London, and his intelligence adviser Nigel once mentioned to him that more people were paying attention to His Royal Highness the Duke.

Just as he said, after reverse observation and analysis, they concluded that those people were most likely from the CIA in the United States.

CIA is the abbreviation of the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States. It and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) often appear in some film and television works and are very well-known.

To put it simply, the difference between CIA and FBI is that CIA is mainly the United States' external intelligence agency. Its main tasks are to openly and secretly collect and analyze intelligence on foreign governments, companies, terrorist organizations, individuals, politics, culture, technology, etc., coordinate the activities of other domestic intelligence agencies, and report this intelligence to various departments of the U.S. government.

The FBI is affiliated with the U.S. Department of Justice and is considered to be the top of the United States' regular security force. It is responsible for domestic security affairs, such as major gang fights, terrorist attacks, etc. At the same time, the FBI is also responsible for handling some major cases within the federal government. For example, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) in the American TV series "Criminal Minds" is affiliated with the FBI.

In fact, even before this, there was a lot of intelligence collected on Barron - but most of it was isolated by his security and intelligence personnel, including various foreign intelligence personnel, as well as some from the British MI5...

Now the CIA has begun to take more interest in Barron, and he can guess the reason. After all, the American CIA has intelligence gathering agencies in various countries, including their allies. Given Barron's status and position, as a British figure both politically and economically, it is normal for the CIA to pay attention to him.

What's more, the energy he displayed in the matter against the Rothschild family is hard to ignore.

In this regard, Barron can only pay more attention in normal times. He believes that with his security level and the intelligence network he has, even though the CIA is famous, he will not be afraid of them.

What's more, he doesn't have much conflict of interest with the other party now, and it seems that the CIA has only shown interest in him and has no hostility.

"I have talked to Cameron, Mr. Inkster. If he becomes prime minister, he will appoint a new head of the intelligence agency. I will make a recommendation at that time..."

Although the general election has not yet started, according to the information Barron has, the probability of the Conservative Party winning the general election is very high, just like in his previous life.

Moreover, the Conservative Party led by Cameron has also gained more public support from the SEM Group controlled by Barron. Under such circumstances, it is not impossible for Barron to recommend the other party for the chief candidates of MI5 or MI6 given the relationship between the two parties.

However, it seems that Barron is more likely to influence the candidate for the director of MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service. The duties of MI6 are similar to those of the CIA. It is also Britain's external intelligence agency and, under normal circumstances, is responsible to the Foreign Secretary.

As for MI5, the British National Security Agency, it reports mainly to the Home Secretary. Therefore, its candidates are often people Cameron trusts and will not be influenced by Barron.

"what do you mean?"

"I heard that you and Alex Younger have worked together for many years and have a good personal relationship. Do you think he is trustworthy?"

As Barron's intelligence advisor for many years, Nigel Inkster's help to Barron was obvious to all, so he also gained the trust of the Duke of England.

Now that he said this, Nigel understood that if Alex Younger could stand on their side, Barron would recommend him to take over as the director of MI15. "I have worked with Alex for more than years, I know him very well, and I think he is qualified for this position."

Nigel said to Barron cautiously.

"Okay, help me arrange a time, I will meet with Mr. Young."

……

In addition to the UK paying attention to the upcoming general election, other European countries are also paying close attention to this matter.

Especially when the Greek sovereign debt crisis intensifies, after all, although Britain has not joined the euro zone, its future policy trends will still have an impact here.

For example, Brown, the current British Prime Minister, has always been firmly opposed to joining the euro zone and does not want Britain to be too involved in some messy things in Europe. Whether he can be re-elected will to a considerable extent affect the European situation in the next few years.

But apart from this, more attention is still focused on Greece. After all, whether Greece can continue to remain in the euro zone will be determined in the near future.

Since April, Greece has begun negotiations with the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on accepting aid.

In a report on the 15th, the Greek Finance Minister disclosed some details of these negotiations to the media.

According to the requirements put forward by the European Central Bank and the IMF during the negotiations, the Greek government needs to implement more stringent austerity policies, including cutting the fiscal budget by 3 billion euros in the next three years, so as to keep the fiscal deficit below 300% of GDP in 2014.

Greek Finance Minister Papaconstantinou said Greece now faces two choices: either let the country go bankrupt or save it.

He will also fly to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, at the end of April to attend a special meeting of finance ministers of the 4 eurozone countries.

Specific details on the amount of relief will be announced at this special meeting.

According to the information that has been disclosed, the rescue plan may involve a funding scale of 1200 billion euros, which will not only set a precedent for eurozone members to accept rescue, but the scale of rescue will also far exceed the 450 billion euros previously initially agreed upon by eurozone countries.

Of course, Barron knows that this is only the first batch of aid, and the amount will continue to increase...

It now seems that it is basically certain that the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund will provide assistance to Greece.

This did not surprise Barron. After all, this was how things developed in his previous life.

European countries could certainly allow Greece to withdraw from the eurozone, but after weighing the losses that would be caused to the entire eurozone and the funds needed to rescue Greece, they still chose to provide rescue.

In addition, we can understand from the location of Greece that Greece is in the Mediterranean Sea, guarding the Middle East and some North African countries, and is the gateway to Europe from the sea.

European countries still need Greece to help them stop the refugees from these regions from sneaking into Europe. If Greece does not care about it, I am afraid that refugees from North Africa and the Middle East, especially some war-torn areas in the Middle East, will be able to migrate to the heart of Europe continuously and unimpeded...

(End of this chapter)