The Blacklist

Chapter 444: Operations of Hostile Acquirers
On Thursday morning, June 6, the Israeli ambassador met with the Secretary of State and conveyed the latest domestic attitude: Mossad promised to permanently abandon any pursuit of the two former agents, Nawabi and Jiva, and to make a private apology for previous misconduct...

Afterwards, the Secretary of State conveyed the matter to Director Donald of the CTU Headquarters and expressed the hope that CTU could take into account the traditional alliance between the United States and Israel, end the hostile actions between the two sides as soon as possible and restore normal relations.

Director Donald said that he would discuss the matter with Deputy Director Kerry and senior officials in the bureau and come up with a decision as soon as possible - he was stalling for time because Kerry was no longer in the country. He had personally led a team to Greece in the Balkan Peninsula yesterday to personally eliminate the Umbrella Company. Accompanying him were three groups of 15 elite agents, including the Jeffrey Group, the Elise Group, and the Brian Group, and a 24-man special operations team temporarily formed!

On Friday, a fierce ground battle broke out deep in the Igneous Mountains on the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean. The headquarters of the Osterman Umbrella Company hidden there was raided and wiped out. More than a hundred assassins at all levels and company employees were killed. The castle where the headquarters was located was burned down and a large underground facility was destroyed by explosives. Afterwards, the Greek National Intelligence Agency, which received a note from CTU, took over the aftermath.

When Carrie and others were returning to the United States on two business jets, a list of personnel from Umbrella Corporation's branches around the world was sent back to CTU headquarters. Donald met with the newly appointed CIA director Daniel Bishop. The two exchanged views frankly and finally reached a consensus that CTU would send agents to various places to cooperate with CIA overseas branches to eliminate the Umbrella Corporation's personnel.

This work might last for quite some time. Donald originally wanted to say that the expenses during this period would be borne by CTU, but Bishop promised immediately: These are not a problem! He hoped that starting from this joint operation, the CIA and CTU would establish a good cooperative relationship...

In the nearly half a month that followed, agents from SLR and SER became frequent flyers, constantly flying to various parts of the world, coordinating operations with local CIA agents, and successively eliminated as many as a hundred members of the Umbrella Group, completely destroying this thirty-year-old killer organization!
After this battle, CTU's reputation has become well-known not only in domestic law enforcement agencies, but also in intelligence agencies of various countries and the underground world, and it has been listed as one of the entities that cannot be provoked.

The way Kerry handled the matter shocked many people and won high praise within CTU. It also made everyone in the Tanglou base completely tied up! All his allies and friends have gained confidence. With such a strong man who protects his shortcomings, all future cooperation can be expected!

Reddington, who watched the whole thing, was also full of praise. In fact, he did not expect Carrie to act so violently, but when he thought that Carrie was so determined to protect Nawabi, let alone Elizabeth, he was completely relieved!
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On Wednesday, July 7, the two departments in the tenement building had just sorted out the files of the previous case and rested for less than half a day, when Reddington sent a new blacklist target and first stated that the case was for Carrie because of the great "money prospects"!
The case was introduced in the command hall on the eighth floor of SLR. Carrie directly pulled Reddington over and let him speak for himself...

Reddington asked Abby to project the front page of today's New York Daily News onto the big screen. He pointed to the headline report and said, "As you can see, this fat guy is Walker, the police chief of Clinton County, Pennsylvania. He actually made the headlines of the New York Daily News for his contribution in destroying the Salieri drug cartel..."

Elizabeth, who came up to listen to the case, looked at him in confusion and said, "Why, is there something wrong with this?"

"It's ridiculous!" Reddington said, "Chief Walker has always been the umbrella for the Salieri drug cartel, but he suddenly went crazy and used all police forces to wipe out the group. Don't you think it's strange?"

Jiva deliberately joked with him, "Maybe Director Walker has a change of heart. Old Ray, you can't just let people learn, right?" Reddington actually likes Jiva, the youngest and most lively senior auditor. He is not annoyed when he hears her joking like this. He smiled and said, "Little Jiva, you overestimate Director Walker's conscience!
“The real reason is that someone used threats to force him to change his boss and join the more powerful Tueto drug cartel!

"The blacklisted person I brought to Kerry this time is the one who facilitated this. Her name is Olivia Olson, and she is a well-known and professional criminal group strategist in the underground world!"

Carrie was sitting cross-legged on the sofa next to her, holding her big teacup and looking very ungraceful. She didn't show any surprise when she heard this. Gina, who was working on an electronic document on her notebook, didn't say anything either. The other SLR and SER agents present had different expressions.

Elizabeth was naturally the chief questioner and asked, "What does it mean to be a criminal group's military strategist with professional skills?"

Reddington was a little disappointed when he saw that Carrie was not surprised, but when he heard his daughter's question, he immediately became interested and introduced her in detail: "Olivia Olsen should not be her real name. We only know that she was an analyst on Wall Street and made a lot of money by doing targeted risk analysis for private investment companies.

"What she is best at is helping financial headhunters conduct hostile takeovers, taking advantage of the target company's debt structure and financial risks. The success rate of the takeovers she handles is almost 100%!
"Then, for some unknown reason, she disappeared for a few years, then reappeared after the 2008 financial crisis as a corporate raider, but her clients were mostly underground criminal gangs.

"Their modus operandi is to find vulnerabilities, compile a target map, analyze each pressure point, and then use this data to annex or seize the target's assets.

"In the case of Chief Clinton, Olivia obtained evidence of his crime and forced Chief Walker to defect, thereby helping her client expand his drug trafficking territory!"

This was another novel case, and after the detectives sighed, they got used to it.

Kerry, who was curled up on the sofa, teased, "Old Lei, this Olivia is at best a financial hunter serving a criminal group. What is your purpose in putting her on the blacklist? Tell the truth!"

(End of this chapter)