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Chapter 69 Military Intelligence: Can control military progress and victory or defeat (1)
For war, intelligence is undoubtedly the most powerful weapon that can change the situation of the war.Whether it is in the ancient battlefield with swords and swords, or in the modern battlefield full of high technology, or even the battlefield without gunpowder smoke, intelligence occupies a very important position. If intelligence is used well, it is enough to control the course of the war and win or lose.Therefore, in a sense, it can be said that those who get information win the world.

§§§ Section [-] FBI crushes Nazi "Operation Pastrios"

The main job of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is internal work, and it also assists intelligence agencies such as the CIA in counterintelligence personnel work.During World War II, the FBI was tasked with counterintelligence, sabotage, and subversion at the behest of President Roosevelt.Under the leadership of the legendary Director Hoover, the FBI handled several major cases, the most famous being the capture of 8 Nazi intelligence officers who went to the United States to carry out sabotage missions in a short period of time.

During World War II, after the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, Hitler, the German head of state, began to declare war on the United States. He ordered the German military intelligence agency to launch a war of espionage and sabotage against the United States, causing American citizens to live in panic and fear.To this end, the German intelligence agency carefully planned "Operation Pastrios". The plan of the operation was to recruit German citizens who had lived in the United States for a period of time, let them secretly return to the east coast of the United States in a submarine, and then use explosives Launch a terrorist attack on some big US cities.The targets of bomb attacks mainly included train stations in the United States. Of course, Jewish stores in New York, aluminum factories, hydropower plants next to Niagara Falls, and transport ships along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers were all within the target range.

According to the FBI disclosure, Nazi intelligence personnel were recruited and concentrated in a military school near Berlin to receive "sabotage class" training. In addition to learning how to use explosives, how to blow up railroad tracks, and how to drive trains, they also had to learn Various intelligence personnel skills, including how to hide their identities and integrate into American society, how to write with invisible ink, etc.Later, these intelligence agents also visited aluminum factories, railway stations, water canals and other places in Germany. During the visit, they were told which places in similar factories were the most vulnerable to attack.

After a series of training, finally a total of 8 Nazi intelligence personnel formed two teams to participate in the "Operation Pastrios" that conspired to attack the United States. On June 1942, 6, under the cover of dense fog, four Nazi intelligence personnel from the first group quietly approached the east coast of the United States after a 14-day secret voyage in a German U-boat. Schie and three accomplices quietly landed on Amagansett Beach in Long Island, New York.They carried a large amount of high explosives, detonators and fountain pens filled with sulfuric acid with the ship, as well as $4 in cash.A few days later, four Nazi intelligence agents from the second team also secretly landed on Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville, Florida.

However, the luck of the second group of Nazi intelligence personnel was obviously not as good as that of the first group. As soon as they came to the beach, they were spotted by John Curran, a member of the US Coast Guard patrolling nearby.John Curran immediately stepped forward to question, and four Nazi intelligence officers claimed that they were a group of fishermen, and the boat ran aground unfortunately.But John Curran didn't believe their words and asked them to accompany him to the Coast Guard office for inspection.At this moment, the four Nazi intelligence officers panicked and showed their viciousness. They threatened John Curran for a while, and tried to buy John Curran with money for a while.Years of experience told John Curran that these four people were by no means ordinary people. In order to make the four Nazi intelligence agents not doubt themselves, John Curran offered to pay some hush money, and the other party immediately gave John Curran $4 .John Curran reported back as soon as he returned to the Coast Guard office.Although the American police did not catch the four Nazi intelligence personnel, this made the American police more vigilant.The FBI quickly stepped in and launched a full-scale investigation.

Members of "Operation Pastrios" scouted New York City for many days, but found no way to start, gradually lost their enthusiasm for participating in the operation, and spent all their money in nightclubs in New York.The team leader, George Dusch, lost confidence and courage in making bomb attacks in the United States. He changed his mind and decided to surrender to the FBI.But agents of the FBI's New York branch didn't believe George Duskey's confession at all, and dismissed him as a nonsense "lunatic."In desperation, George Dusky decided to go to Washington, to the FBI headquarters to surrender, "They will believe me." George Dusky thought so.

At FBI headquarters, George Dusky was treated the same as in New York, still considered a lunatic, until he showed the large amount of dollars he was carrying with the agents, and the FBI officials began to take George Dusky seriously what was said.Hoover, director of the FBI, broke into a cold sweat when he heard the news, ordered the blockade of major traffic arteries in New York and Florida, and conducted a strict investigation of passing vehicles. On June 6, the other seven participants in "Operation Pastrios" were all captured.

After eight Nazi intelligence personnel were arrested, President Roosevelt decided to bypass the cumbersome civil court procedures and set up a special military court to try these Nazi intelligence personnel.The trial took place behind closed doors in a room at the U.S. Department of Justice and, in fact, the FBI.

However, many people have questioned the legitimacy of this "court-martial case". A colonel of the U.S. Army who was appointed to defend eight Nazi intelligence agents said: "We believe that the establishment of such a court-martial by the President of the United States is a Unconstitutional." The controversy went to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court also believed that this was wartime, so the president's decision was not wrong.

The FBI began interrogation, and eight German intelligence officers confessed one by one. 8 were executed and 6 were pardoned.But that's 2 years later.

Although the case of the eight Nazi intelligence personnel was successfully solved because of internal conflicts among the intelligence personnel, the professionalism shown by the FBI during the interrogation process was the main reason for the confession of those intelligence personnel.

§§§Section [-] Coastal Defense Intelligence Leaked, Qing Empire Lost Coastal Defense
In a war, intelligence leakage will directly affect the battle situation, and even cause a devastating blow to a certain country's military power. The FBI introduced the importance of military intelligence through real examples of Japanese intelligence personnel collecting the Qing government's coastal defense intelligence and thus winning.

Before the Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government’s Westernization Movement was in full swing, and it spent huge sums of money to buy warships to strengthen its naval defense force. At that time, the total tonnage of the Qing government’s naval vessels ranked sixth in the world.However, such a behemoth was beaten to pieces by Japan, a small naval country at that time, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.People often attribute the defeat to the corruption and incompetence of the Qing government, but from another perspective, in addition to the system, equipment and morale, Japanese intelligence personnel are also one of the important factors for Japan to win this war.

In March 1895, when the smoke of the Sino-Japanese War had not yet cleared, Li Hongzhang, the Beiyang Minister of the Qing Government and the Governor of Zhili, went to Japan as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Qing Government, and signed an unequal treaty with the Japanese government that humiliated the country——"Treaty of Shimonoseki" ".As a result, Japan received spoils worth 3 million taels of silver and compensation of 1 million taels of silver.This huge indemnity was equivalent to the total fiscal revenue of Japan for seven years at that time. Since then, Japan's economic and military strength has expanded rapidly, paving the way for its large-scale invasion of China in the 2.3s.

In fact, since the 19s, Japan has continuously sent intelligence personnel to China. "Genyangsha" is probably the earliest Japanese intelligence personnel organization that carried out secret intelligence personnel activities in China. In 80, it established an oriental school on Kunshan Road, Shanghai.

At that time, Japanese military intelligence personnel in China had penetrated into various regions of China.The head office of Japanese military intelligence personnel in North China is located in Beijing, and the head is Aoki Nobusumi.Aoki Nobujun served in the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and went to China in 1884 to carry out espionage activities under the pseudonym Hirose Jiro.In Shanghai, the Japanese consuls in Shanghai, Nartoku Ogoshi and Nezuichi dispatched intelligence officers Takehiko Fujishima disguised as a monk to meet Takeo Takami who was hiding in Fayu Temple in Mount Putuo, Zhejiang. After the round, they spied on the military situation of the Fujian Fleet and drew a map.It was not until Takehiko Fujishima was captured in Zhenhai that the network of Japanese intelligence personnel in China was discovered.

Among this series of Japanese intelligence personnel, Kamio Mitsuomi in Tianjin is the most scheming.Mitsuomi Kamio, known as one of the Japanese Army's "Three Masters of China", graduated from the Japanese Army Teaching Corps and was sent to China for intelligence activities in 1882.On the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, that is, in the summer of 1894, Japan threatened North Korea with heavy troops.The Chief of Staff of the Japanese Army and General Prince Sugawamiya Chihito personally summoned the Japanese Captain Nezuichi and ordered him to sneak into China.Arao Sei, the Japanese lieutenant who was also in charge of intelligence personnel, immediately recalled his intelligence officer Kotaro Sokata from Hankou after he arrived in Shanghai, and instructed him to sneak into Yantai and Weihai, and try his best to detect the movements of the Beiyang Fleet.At that time, in order to avoid the attention of the Chinese side, the Japanese intelligence agency specially formulated a careful code language system. At the same time, in order to obtain accurate and timely intelligence, they also bought a large number of Qing Dynasty officials.

On the eve of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government had established four fleets: Beiyang, Nanyang, Fujian, and Guangdong.Among these four fleets, the Beiyang Fleet is the most concerned by the Japanese military and political circles.Judging from the facilities of the Beiyang Fleet, Li Hongzhang, Minister of the Qing Dynasty at that time, ordered four armored ships "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Laiyuan" and "Jingyuan" from Germany, and ordered two ships "Zhiyuan" and "Jingyuan" from Britain. Both belong to the Beiyang Fleet.As of 1888, the Beiyang Fleet had 25 large and small ships and 4000 officers and soldiers.At the same time, Li Hongzhang was still building docks, ports, forts, etc. in Weihai, and stationed the admiral of the Beiyang Navy.In addition, the important position of the Beiyang Fleet can also be seen from the annual naval expenses invested by the Qing government. The Beiyang Fleet can directly protect the safety of the capital at sea.Because of this, the investigation of the Beiyang Fleet has become the focus of the work of Japanese intelligence personnel.

Zongfang Kotaro came to Yantai from Shanghai, and after dressing up, he went to Weihai, the main base of the Beiyang Fleet.With the help of traitors, Zongfang Xiaotaro searched for information in Weihai, and even took a small boat to Liugong Island to secretly understand the deployment of the navy.However, due to the tight defense of the Beiyang Fleet, the temporary effect was not great.At the same time, Ishikawa Wuichi, a Japanese intelligence officer active in Tianjin, is also actively investigating. On the surface, he seems to be just an ordinary employee of Japan's Matsusaka Corporation, but in fact he is a seasoned military intelligence officer.Ishikawa Goichi arrived in Hankou with Munekata Kotaro in 1886, and was classified under Arao Seimen.Then the two joined the Sichuan branch and completed a report on Sichuan with detailed pictures. In 1893, Wuyi Ishikawa was ordered to come to Tianjin, and used the staff of the foreign firm as a cover to carry out intelligence personnel activities.

When the Japanese intelligence personnel were at a loss, by chance, Ishikawa Wuyi met Li Hongzhang's nephew, Liu Fen, who was then the secretary of the Ordnance Bureau, through a Qing soldier.During the conversation with Liu Fen, Ishikawa Wuyi discovered that Liu Fen is a money-grubbing and lustful person.So Ishikawa Wuyi carefully planned to satisfy Liu Fen's greed on the one hand and take Liu Fen to a Japanese brothel on the other hand.Since then, Liu Fen has obeyed Ishikawa Wuyi's orders and continued to provide information for Ishikawa, and accordingly he can get the sex and money he wants every time.In this way, Ishikawa Wuyi obtained relevant information about the Qing army who aided the North Korea without any difficulty.The Japanese army immediately adjusted the deployment of troops after learning about it. On July 1894, 7, a tragic event occurred in the sea off Teshima where a Qing troop carrier was besieged by three ships of the First Guerrilla Squadron of the Japanese United Fleet. All the thousand Qing soldiers on board died.It was only after this incident that the Qing government became aware of it. After investigation, Ishikawa Wuichi and other intelligence personnel in China were arrested and sentenced to death.

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