Hollywood Hunter

Since Edgar Hoover, the first director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, relied on the FBI's pervasive surveillance network to monitor the federal politicians and celebrities and even the general public, and gained forty years of monstrous power, the term'surveillance' , Has always been a very sensitive topic in American society that is absolutely inaccessible.

Many major political events in American modern history, such as the Watergate Incident, the Zipper Door, and the Prism Door, are all inextricably linked to surveillance.

Monitoring others and gaining their privacy and control actually means a kind of power.

The key reason why Edgar Hoover has not dared to shake his position during his 40-year career as FBI director is that no one is sure that if he comes out, he will have a relationship with him the next day. The scandal related to himself was exposed.

The current president of the United States, George Bush, who chose the post of CIA director during his political career is definitely a very old move.

As for Simon.

The eavesdropping incident at the Plaza Hotel a few years ago has shown the strong curiosity of the outside world about his super-rich, who has suddenly risen like a comet.

Because there are more than a dozen people's life experiences in his mind, Simon's strict defense of his personal privacy in recent years is definitely not unfounded.

Not only politicians, but the federal government also monitors the super-rich in the country.

The reason is actually very simple.

In a capital society, money means power. The rich have more than money in their hands. Media tycoons like Simon also have media networks that can influence the direction of news and public opinion.

If Simon's privacy can be grasped, or it is not a handle for outsiders, then, in many cases, politicians can coerce him to act according to his wishes.

There is actually a precedent for this kind of thing.

The most classic is probably Howard Hughes, who is also quite legendary in Hollywood.

The super-rich, who died more than ten years ago, has been under the secret surveillance of the federal government since his fortune.

According to the information that has been made public over the years, the FBI's surveillance data on Howard Hughes, including recordings, photos, and autographs, occupy a whole room.

In the early 1950s, in order to warn Hughes to cooperate with him in a Congress of Congress, Edgar Hoover sent someone to send Hughes all the monitoring data for three full years to the other party, and he also attached the autograph "From Hoover Tribute' card.

The data includes eavesdropping recordings of Howard Hughes’s apartments on the east and west coasts of the United States for three years, as well as almost every day’s schedule information. Every Hollywood actress that Hughes has dated during the three years is also It can be described as nuanced.

Edgar Hoover told Hughes in this way, we know your every move, be careful!

Howard Hughes did not leave his private jet for almost a moment in his later years, and was the last person to die alone. Although the public reason was that the super-rich was dying of obsessive-compulsive disorder, it is difficult to say whether he completely lost his sense of security due to government surveillance. For the sake of.

However, despite being secretly monitored by the government for a long time, Howard Hughes himself is also doing similar things.

This can be evident if anyone has watched "Aviator".

Howard Hughes regarded all his countless lovers as personal property and sent countless men to monitor the words and deeds of these canaries.

What's more embarrassing is that because of this long-term monitoring, Hughes's lone canary and the monitors he dispatched went to bed for a long time.

Simon's miraculous rise has accumulated tens of billions of dollars in wealth in just a few years, and this number continues to increase rapidly.

Therefore, it is normal to cause some people to be curious about him and other thoughts.

It was the leader of an investigation team who found someone monitoring Simon, named Martin Dinham.

This is the person selected by the Johnston family from Australia.

A real professional agent.

This point once again proves the background of the Johnston family. Simon now has tens of billions of dollars, but it is impossible to find the people he needs from the federal authorities.

Even if he found it, he didn't dare to use it at all.

After Simon had a similar idea, the old man personally helped touch 11 people and sent them over. They were divided into two groups, a group of five people and a group of six people.

Of course, the couple paid a lot of money for this.

Almost all families of 11 people can be regarded as being raised by the Westeros system.

In fact, this is precisely what Simon has fancyed.

Those who are concerned are less likely to betray, so Simon's original suggestion was to find someone with a family.

As long as these people are truly ‘value for money’, Simon doesn’t mind spending millions every year.

You know, agents seem mysterious to ordinary people, but after all, they are just a profession. These people can usually get an annual salary of tens of thousands of dollars equivalent to some ordinary white-collar workers, and at most enjoy special government benefits.

Simon's basic salary of 200,000 US dollars, which is absolutely unmatched by government agents.

Moreover, all household expenses of these people, including medical and education, are fully covered by Westeros.

After one year of employment and passing the test, the whole family can also choose to immigrate to the United States. The Westeros system will pay a lump-sum settlement fee of 1 million US dollars. When the children become adults in the future, they can directly choose the designated Australian or American first-class universities. Luo company is responsible for getting it done.

In addition, after the expiration of the twenty-year working period, each of these people will receive a one-time reward of $5 million and subsequent retirement funds.

That's right.

Those who want to enter a job must sign a twenty-year work contract.

Simon believes very much in the theory that “people are not as good as they are”. Of course, the vases around him must be changed frequently. For these special service teams around his house, obviously the longer the working hours, the more reliable they tend to be. Human beings are accustomed to certain After life, even oneself is often not easy to change.

Therefore, when the time is long enough, something called ‘loyalty’ is usually formed.

After Martin Dinham led his five-person team to complete the investigation of the Igreat portal hacking case some time ago, he reported his investigation results to Janet, and unexpectedly noticed that someone was following him after leaving the Dome Point Manor. .

Neither Simon nor Janet wanted the investigative team they owned to be detected by others, and Martin Dinham had received similar instructions.

Realizing that he was being targeted, Martin Dinham calmly arranged for a colleague to conduct an anti-tracking, and finally found that it was a man in his thirties named Frank Blaze.

According to the information collected later, Frank Blaze, 33 years old, Dinham specifically indicated that this age may be false. Frank Blaze immigrated to the United States from the United Kingdom as a student 13 years ago, and now it is an ordinary person. Some down-and-out plumbers, single, without any bad habits.

After the members of the investigation team sneaked into the other party's residence, they quickly discovered direct evidence and installed a wiretap.

The current investigation is continuing, and two other'colleagues' of Frank Blaze have been discovered.

However, Martin Dinham has already given a result in the report. This group of people has no malice towards Simon, and the monitoring of him is also very low. It obviously gives people the feeling of three days of fishing and two days of drying the net. .

"For the time being, only three people were found, in addition to Frank Blaze, and Luther Randolph, who were publicly identified as the thugs of a song and dance hall in Compton, and Johnny Pist, the driver of a moving company in Koreatown, including Frank Blaze, all three of them have a job that is not too fixed, they are all immigrants, and their characteristics are very obvious. Although Johnny Pister is married, it is likely to be just a cover, a hidden agent for a long time Choosing a marriage is a very common thing. From the current survey data, the three of them should be just pawns, and we are still tracking them up. In addition, they also give me a feeling of...well, "abandoned child". "

Burbank, in a humble cottage office in Universal Studios.

Simon listened to Martin Dinham's introduction and said, "Abandoned sons? So, they are not at the federal level?"

If it is the FBI, it is obviously impossible to become an abandoned child.

Since Martin Dinham judged that the three were very professional agents, not ordinary informants, unless they were overseas spies, they could not be abandoned.

Martin Dinham nodded and said: "I guess that the three people are either from the Stasi or the KGB. The West and Germany merged, and the Stasi has been dissolved. However, this spy network has not disappeared. The director of the Stasi Foreign Intelligence Service also applied for political asylum from the Australian government three months ago because the West German government required him to hand over the list of foreign cyber spies in the Stasi in order to grant an amnesty. The KGB is also a possibility. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. The country’s current economic situation is very bad, and it has no strength to support a huge overseas spy network."

Simon thought for a while and said: "From the perspective of the last names of the three people, Stasi should be more likely to abandon a child."

Martin Dinham shook his head: "The name is just a code name and will not reveal anything."

Simon asked again: "So, do they have Slav characteristics?"

"Luther Randolph should have some Eastern European ancestry," Martin Dinham said. "However, this still doesn't say anything."

Simon heard this middle-aged man say, suddenly asked: "Martin, is your name real?"

Martin Dinham shook his head directly and smiled: "Fake, my real last name is Bedford. I'm just used to the Dinham last name, which is also on many passports, so I haven't changed it this time."

Simon also smiled and said, "A very classic last name."

Whether in the United Kingdom, the United States or Australia, there are many regional towns named after "Bedford", but this shows the universality of this standard British surname.

Since these people are to be used, Simon has naturally investigated their details, so he is very clear about Martin Dinham's real name and more information about the other party.

Martin Dinham probably also knew this, and he was very calm.

Simon Westeros gave them enough things, and Martin Dinham didn't take it for granted.

After a few digressions, Martin Dinham continued: "So, boss, what do you do next?"

Simon did not answer, but asked: "Besides this group of teams, do you think there is anyone else me?"

Martin Dinham shook his head and said, "Well, I don't know. In the last few days, we have only found out three Frank Blazes, but the team hasn't dug them all out yet.

Simon thought for a moment, and said: "In this case, you are temporarily in charge of investigating Frank Blaze and others. I want to know everything about them. As for the others, I will arrange someone else."

Martin Dinham didn't know that Simon had other men in his hands.

However, some things are taken for granted. It would be too shabby if only their group was in the pocket of the super rich.

Interestingly, without asking more, the two continued to discuss some details, and Martin Dinham left.

Simon continued to stay in this old-fashioned bungalow office in Universal Studios, slowly flipping through the scripts sent by Ella Deutschman, thinking about the next thing.

In recent years, Simon has only paid attention to his private residence not to be invaded by outsiders, but has ignored other aspects of monitoring.

The main purpose of monitoring the super-rich is to obtain the privacy of these people who are not humane.

In the eyes of many people, such a rapidly rising super rich man like Simon may have a big secret.

In addition to capturing his handle, there are probably some people who hope to get this big secret that can make them rich in just a few years. In just a few short years, with a wealth of tens of billions of dollars, probably few people can be unmoved by it.

Therefore, Simon did not believe that there was only such a shabby group of people around him.

Security measures such as anti-eavesdropping, which I think are very careful, may not be so airtight.

There are some people around.

Beautiful vases.

All the girls around Janet were found through active retrieval of information, and did not passively accept resumes, which largely avoided being exploited.

However, even if this group of girls had no problem at first, it is inevitable that there is no problem now.

Simon asked himself to give them enough salary and treatment, but the hearts of people have always been greedy.

Perhaps this matter should also be investigated.

Simon didn't want to turn himself into a suspicious person, but he didn't think this kind of suspiciousness was unfounded.

Investigate whether there are other monitoring teams around, reorganize the vases around you, and want to accomplish this, besides Martin Dinham, just another six-person team is obviously not enough.

With such consideration, Simon remembered that Sophia had also found a group of people in Europe. It is said that they were the retired agents of Stasi. He had already seen the background investigation work report done by the other party for the European maid team. From the professional and detailed reports In terms of degree, the abilities of the people Sophia are looking for are pretty good, and maybe two more people can be transferred.

As for the team from the United States.

Simon had never thought about it.

Previously, he had cooperated with some professional detective companies. Now, since he wants to set up his own intelligence network, Simon instinctively feels that it is better not to find candidates from North America.