The Blacklist

Chapter 398 Johnson's Identity and the Russian Town
It was not until the Gulfstream G650 took off from Kars Airport that Tom and others finally breathed a sigh of relief. Johnson, who had been unable to bear it any longer, asked Carrie for the interview materials that he regarded as his life.

Kerry was a little unhappy and asked Gina to hand over the information to him. He said, "Jason, although I admire you for holding on and not revealing your identity, the CIA behind you is really a piece of shit!"

Everyone on the plane was shocked when they heard what he said - it turned out that Johnson was really a CIA agent!
Johnson's face changed drastically. He felt like he was stripped naked. He didn't understand how his identity was exposed. He looked at Carrie hesitantly, unable to say a word.

Tom looked at Johnson with a complicated expression. This childhood playmate turned out to be a spy. He was sure that even Susan didn't know about this. At this time, he, Nez, and Kumon all understood why Carrie cursed - as a spy, Johnson was loyal, but the CIA's behavior was an eight-level jerk!
When they returned to Washington eight hours later, they personally led a team to Andrews Air Force Base to pick up their Susan. After hearing the report from Nez and Kumon, they were shocked and angry. Even Johnson, whom they had treated like a son before, became a stranger to him!
Johnson felt very guilty after seeing Susan. He grew up under the care of his parents and Aunt Susan. Especially after Christopher disappeared, Aunt Susan poured more affection on him, but he hid the fact that he was recruited by the CIA in college from everyone!

After he got into trouble abroad this time, the CIA chose to remain silent. It was Aunt Susan who insisted on a private rescue and successfully brought him back. Johnson didn't know how to face her!

After getting off the plane, Carrie just said hello to Susan and left with Gina. He didn't bother to look at the awkward mood between Susan and Johnson!
The reason he got involved in this matter this time was just to help Tom, with no other motive - not really, because the interview materials Gina got contained confidential information collected by Johnson, and he had already made a copy.

As for Johnson's future, Kerry knew very clearly that although he escaped this time, considering the future relationship between the United States and Georgia, he could no longer appear in public. The most likely possibility was that he would join the witness protection program and disappear among the crowd; the best possibility was that he would change his name and become a CIA clerk. No matter which one, he would never be able to work as a journalist again!

Of course, Johnson was lucky enough. If it weren't for the kindness in Susan's heart, he wouldn't even be able to become a star on the wall of the lobby of the CIA Langley headquarters, and he could only die quietly!

Because of this, Carrey hates the CIA's style of doing things - it will never be presented to the public!
In addition, in this matter, Carrie's feelings towards Susan have changed a little, not much, but enough to change his attitude and approach towards her in the future!
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September 9th is the beginning of a new week and also the Mid-Autumn Festival in China. This time, Kerry was a little dissatisfied because he felt that the dozen or so mooncakes he bought in Chinatown yesterday were not very tasty! He analyzed it and felt that the mooncakes here were too sweet to cater to the taste of Americans!
Although he thought so, Gina, Elizabeth and others liked it very much. After taking it to the post office, it was welcomed by everyone, which made him speechless.

In the afternoon, Hayworth Arnold, director of the CIA's Overseas Intelligence Division, came to the post office and expressed his gratitude to him on behalf of his director, Terrence Laurel, for helping to rescue Johnson. Since this matter could not be made public, it could only be expressed in private.

Hayworth was one of them. After finishing his business, he told Carrie that the intelligence Johnson brought back was very important. The CIA top brass was very happy. Of course, they knew that this would not satisfy outsiders. However, as an intelligence agency, they had their own behavioral traditions and would not change for someone! But the CIA had to be informed of this matter, so he hoped that Carrie would also write it down and not let the CIA get away with it!

Carrie was amused by him and said that he would definitely write it down. Then, Hayworth told him a lot about the internal situation of the CIA and some recent covert operations. Although he was only in charge of one department, he knew a lot, which made Carrie understand a lot more.
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The next day, just after work, CTU headquarters received an invitation from DOD (Department of National Defense), inviting Director Donald and First Deputy Director Kerry to attend a meeting at the Pentagon - this was a bit strange, because Kerry never attended such meetings. In the past, it was Cooper who attended the meeting, and later it was Donald, but this time he was specifically invited, which was very meaningful!
At ten o'clock in the morning, in a luxurious, modern, high-tech conference room in the U.S. military Pentagon in Arlington County west of Washington, the new National Security Advisor Harold Cooper presided over a meeting. In addition to Kerry who was invited, the Secretary of the National Security Council Jon Dulles and the heads of the three intelligence agencies, NSA, DIS, and CIA, also attended the meeting.

At the beginning of the meeting, Admiral Phillips, the new director of the DIS (Defense Investigative Service), first introduced: "Several years ago, our military reconnaissance satellite used a space camera to photograph a large town near the Ural Mountains in central Russia. We didn't pay much attention to it at first, but later during intelligence analysis, we found that there was no information about this town on any map, which aroused our suspicion!"

As he spoke, an army lieutenant colonel played satellite photos on the large screen on the wall opposite the head of the conference table (the presidential seat).

Admiral Phillips continued: "In the following period, we sent high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, stealth reconnaissance aircraft, and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft into Russia many times to conduct reconnaissance here...

“But a strange thing happened. The optical camera could take a blurry image of the town, but other detection systems such as radar, infrared, and electromagnetic could not see the town!

"After that, we sent out several elite agents to infiltrate this town, but all of them failed, and more than a dozen excellent agents were sacrificed..."

After hearing this, although the others present were hearing about this for the first time, they all remained calm because they knew that this was just the beginning of the introduction and there were more important things to be said later.

However, Carrie thought of the extra plot about this matter, and thought: Is this because they are unwilling to bear the losses and want to introduce a third party, the Halcyon Shield, to carry out the infiltration operation?

However, he was very curious, what did this have to do with him? Why was he called here?
(End of this chapter)