The Spy

Chapter 177 News leaked
Military Intelligence Department, the director is in a good mood.

In this conflict, Xu Qingyun's people did not embarrass him. They defeated the Party Affairs Investigation Department and enhanced the reputation of their Military Intelligence Department.

Old Ghost Xu went to file a complaint, but was stopped by him again.

Thinking of Old Man Xu gritting his teeth but looking helpless against him, Chu Zuo smiled.

"Director, Xie Shengnan's story has spread, and many people already know about it."

Secretary Qi hurried in. He knew that the director was in a good mood at the moment and this news would immediately change his mood, but he had to come and report.

"What Xie Shengnan?" the director asked in surprise.

"He is the man disguised as a Japanese and lurking in our telecommunications department. The outside world has passed on very detailed information."

Secretary Qi explained in a low voice, and the director's smile suddenly stopped. He understood what the secretary meant. Xie Shengnan was a Japanese and had been lurking in their military intelligence department for more than two years.

Xu Qingyun came over and captured several Japanese spies, forcing the Japanese to use him, which led to his being discovered by them.

"Who spread it?"

The director roared angrily. He had ordered that this matter be kept strictly confidential and not many people knew about it. How did it get out?
Another point is that the Japanese were unaware that Xie Shengnan had been captured. If this were to get out now, the Shanghai Special High Section would probably find out immediately, and the radio station they controlled would no longer be of any use.

Secretary Qi didn't say anything. He didn't know who spread the news, and it was not his job to investigate the case.

"Let Zhanjie come here immediately."

Virgo's good mood was gone. This matter must be investigated thoroughly. No matter who spoke too much, he would tear it to pieces.

Xie Shengnan's radio station played a very important role. It could help them confuse the Japanese and even provide false information. Now that the news had spread, the Japanese would definitely know about it.

Secretary Qi said that many people knew about it and it was impossible to stop it.

Xu Zhanjie came very quickly, and Secretary Qi told him what was going on before he came in.

"Director, the news was definitely not leaked by our intelligence department. Very few people here know about it."

Xu Zhanjie first said that what the intelligence department fears most is not the failure of the mission, but internal problems.

Once suspicion is aroused and a large-scale investigation is launched, it is bound to cause panic among the people.

"I didn't ask you that."

The director glared at him and then said, "Not many people know about this. Check it out immediately. Whoever leaked this will be severely punished."

"Yes, I will investigate immediately and punish them severely."

Xu Zhanjie breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the director did not suspect their intelligence department. The traitor case was handled by Miao Feng, assisted by Hou Yigong and Xu Qingyun, and many other people were involved.

If we really suspect that they leaked the information, there will be great turmoil within the Intelligence Department.

"Notify Deputy Section Chief Miao that Hou Yigong and Xu Qingyun go to the conference room for a meeting."

After Xu Zhanjie returned, he immediately began to investigate. He had confirmed that the news had been leaked and that many people knew about it.

He called out those who knew the situation, and did not call out the two team leaders who were not aware of the situation.

The director asked him to investigate, and the matter was under his control.

However, such a case is difficult to investigate. Whoever talks too much will not admit it himself. Their intelligence department is not the only one who knows about it. There are other people who know about the handling of Xie Shengnan's case.

People in the interrogation department, inspection department, and personnel department all know about it.

The director got angry and was determined to handle the case no matter how difficult it was.

"Xie Shengnan's story has been leaked, and many people outside know about it."

In the conference room, Xu Zhanjie spoke first. The three of them were all stunned, especially Xu Qingyun. Xie Shengnan's radio station was in his hands. He had a detailed plan for this radio station and was even prepared to send some real intelligence to the Japanese to confuse them.

For example, the previous conflict with the Party Affairs Investigation Office was reported to the Japanese using this radio.

The Japanese could also learn about this kind of thing through other channels, so it would be better to let Xie Shengnan report it via the radio station.

Now that the outside world knows about this, it means that this radio station is completely scrapped.

"Chief, who did this?"

Miao Feng asked anxiously. It was Xie Shengnan who found out the situation and he knew it best.

"I want to know, why did you come here?"

Xu Zhanjie glared at Miao Feng, who immediately lowered his head and said nothing more. Xu Zhanjie then looked at Hou Yigong.

"Chief, someone in our team leaked the information." Hou Yigong said in a low voice.

"Nonsense, how could it be spread without anyone leaking it?"

Xu Zhanjie was furious. Hou Yigong's words were not as good as Miao Feng's. Hou Yigong also lowered his head. It's not that he didn't know that what he said was nonsense, but he had no better words. Seeing the section chief looking at him, he could only say this.

"Qingyun, you go ahead."

Xu Zhanjie was dissatisfied with the two of them and had to ask Xu Qingyun directly.

"Section Chief, does the Director know about this?"

Xu Qingyun asked softly, Miao Feng and Hou Yigong were not that stupid, they just didn't want to say what Xu Zhanjie wanted to hear.

"It was the Director who told me and ordered our Intelligence Department to conduct a thorough investigation."

Xu Zhanjie admitted it generously. Xu Qingyun sighed slightly in his heart. He could not escape this thankless task.

The task was assigned to the Intelligence Department, and Xu Zhanjie was the first to bear the brunt of it.

He is Xu Zhanjie's student, so it is natural for him to share his teacher's worries.

"There are quite a few people who know about this, but not too many. Among these departments, our Intelligence Department has the most people who know about this, but no one dares to say anything. The leaker is likely in another department. If the director requires a strict investigation, we have to start with other departments."

Xu Qingyun spoke slowly, and Xu Zhanjie nodded slightly: "The director requires that the leaker must be found and severely punished."

Severe punishment without mercy means that no matter who leaks the information, if they are discovered, they will probably be executed, unless they are those people who have a special relationship with Virgo.

For example, the inspection section chief and the personnel section chief.

Even if they are found out, they will be in trouble. At the very least, they will be transferred, and at the worst, they will be imprisoned.

This leak directly led to their loss of a Japanese radio station, and it is no exaggeration to say that they lost a Japanese insider.

"Section Chief, since the mission has been assigned to us, let's investigate. There aren't many people who know about this. Let's first ask those around us, and then ask them themselves. The news will only come out after this, so I'm sure the leak won't be too long."

Xu Qingyun sighed. He had no choice but to do this job which would offend people.

"What if the information was leaked before?" Xu Zhanjie asked.

"That's troublesome. The information was leaked earlier, so why did it only come out today? It's very likely that someone with ulterior motives did it deliberately."

Xu Qingyun sighed again. It’s not that he hadn’t thought about this, but it would be more difficult to investigate this way.

"Just as you said, let's go through it first."

Xu Zhanjie nodded slightly. If the leak happened very early, it would be very troublesome as Xu Qingyun said.

Since the secret was leaked before, why did the news only come out today?

They are not Japanese. If they knew that their people were captured, they would not have been confused by the Shan Gui telegram before. The Japanese have not made any move so far, which means that they are indeed unaware of the situation.

Besides, if the Japanese really knew the details, they would not deliberately spread the news in Nanjing.

There is only one place left where people have both the motivation and the ability to do it.

Party Affairs Investigation Office.

They do have a motive. Not to mention that they killed their people and messed up their operation, the irreconcilable relationship between the two sides alone is enough for them to do so.

As for why it was only exposed today, it was obvious that because their operation failed this time and the old man did not handle it, Old Ghost Xu got furious and deliberately released this information to embarrass them.

Xu Qingyun did not say these words explicitly, but Xu Zhanjie knew them very well.

The director gave the order and the intelligence department's investigation began quickly, starting with the insiders.

Xu Zhanjie personally took charge and asked Groups 1 and 4 to question all the insiders, not only themselves, but also the people around them. The insiders were only in three departments: the interrogation department, the inspection department, and the personnel department.

Among them, the Personnel Department has the smallest number of people, with only one person, the section chief himself.

Even if other people knew that Xie Shengnan was in trouble, they didn't know that he was Japanese.

There were two more inspectors and three people knew about it.

The interrogation department has the most.

Section chief, deputy section chief, and personnel involved in the interrogation.

But all together, there are only ten people, and half of them are at the section chief level.

While the Military Intelligence Department was investigating, Aoki quickly ran to Kawashima's house.

"Section Chief, this is bad."

"You are so flustered. It's not proper. If you have something to say, please speak slowly."

Kawashima scolded, but Aoki said nothing. He took out the latest telegram he had received and handed it to Kawashima.

The telegram was sent by the leader of an undercover intelligence group in Nanjing, telling them that someone in Nanjing said that Xie Shengnan, a Japanese agent lurking in the Military Intelligence Department, had been arrested. He had been lurking in the Military Intelligence Department for more than two years, and that this had caused Director Dai of the Military Intelligence Department to lose a lot of face.

After reading the telegram, Kawashima turned pale.

The mountain ghost was caught?
When did this happen? Yesterday, Shan Gui sent them a piece of intelligence about the internal conflict between the Military Intelligence Department and the Party Affairs Investigation Department. Could it be that he was exposed because of the telegram he sent this time?

That's not right. If it was exposed, how could people outside know it so quickly? This undercover team leader had no way of getting information from the military intelligence department. He said it very clearly that he learned it from somewhere else.

"Have you ever sent a private telegram to the mountain ghost?"

Kawashima suddenly raised his head and looked at Aoki, who shook his head hastily: "Section Chief, I have never contacted him privately."

Aoki indeed didn't do that. He didn't need to do that. Everything he did was in accordance with Kawashima's instructions.

After reading the telegram again, Kawashima suddenly collapsed back.

The mountain ghost has a name and a surname, and he is indeed gone. Even if he were still here, as some people in Nanjing say, the mountain ghost would surely be doomed.

"Call him back and ask him to find out what's going on."

Kawashima gritted his teeth and said that they were in Shanghai, not Nanjing, and everything in Nanjing needed to be confirmed by their undercover team.

"Hay."

Aoki bowed his head and accepted the order. Kawashima suddenly said, "Go to Nanjing in person and check the situation near where they are hiding."

Kawashima is the section chief and he will think of everything in any situation.

If something really happened to Shan Gui, and it didn't happen in the past two days, then he might have been in trouble a long time ago. The telegrams they received from Shan Gui were all fake.

Shan Gui and his liaison have both defected.

If they do, what about others?
Kawashima thought of the recent series of losses and couldn't help but suspect that there were people in Nanjing that he didn't know about who had fallen into the hands of the Chinese, and that they were using their hands to send telegrams to Shanghai and confuse him.

They are undercover agents and their identities cannot be revealed.

Aoki knows the most and he is the only one who can verify it.

Just verify, don't do anything, just look at it and leave.

"Hayi, I will leave tomorrow."

Aoki also thought of this and understood the seriousness of the matter. He was the only one who knew the situation of the undercover personnel in Nanjing, so it was not surprising that the section chief sent him there.

In Nanjing, a thorough investigation has been conducted into the leak.

Xu Zhanjie personally questioned several section chiefs, Miao Feng questioned the deputy section chiefs, and the rest were investigated by Xu Qingyun and Hou Yigong.

Including the people around them.

Every time Xu Qingyun and his companions asked someone, they would remind them that if one knew about the information but did not report it, they would be guilty of the same crime as the leaker. If they told the truth in advance, they would be safe.

They also specifically used Xie Shengnan's case as an example.

The General Affairs Department had previously explained the situation truthfully, and although the person ultimately pointed to was Xin Shaowu, it helped them find Xie Shengnan.

So Xin Shaowu and the people in the General Affairs Department are fine.

But if you help to conceal it, your fate will be the same as Gong Zhaolin's.

There are vivid examples that make them dare not hide anything.

"Chief, this is a serious problem."

The four met again in the afternoon of the second day after the leak.

"I know."

Xu Zhanjie frowned. In the first round of investigation, they did not find any problems. They also questioned the insiders in the Intelligence Department.

One group asks four groups, and four groups ask people in one group.

"What do you think?"

Xu Zhanjie raised his head and looked at the three people. Miao Feng and Hou Yigong both looked at Xu Qingyun.

"Chief, expand the investigation and investigate the source of the leak."

Previously, it was just an internal investigation to see if we could identify the talkative person. Now that we haven’t found him, we can only expand the scope.

One is to investigate their family members to see if anyone had mentioned this matter at home and then the family members leaked it.

At the same time, ask the insider where he got the information, trace the source step by step, and use a two-pronged approach to find out the source of the leak.

"Okay, expand the investigation and start immediately."

Xu Zhanjie agreed. The director was keeping an eye on the matter. He heard from Secretary Qi that the director had two fits of rage over the matter. Xu Laogui from the Party Affairs Investigation Office called to ridicule him, and the director was very angry.

The person who leaked the information must be found as soon as possible, otherwise Xu Zhanjie will be in trouble.

"Yes."

The few people quickly divided the work. Hou Yigong was responsible for the internal affairs, mainly checking their families and people they often hung out with.

Including people from the Intelligence Department themselves.

Xu Qingyun went outside to trace the source of the leak, while Miao Feng monitored the ten insiders to see if they had any unusual movements.

On Xu Qingyun's side, Yan Ming and Fang Laibao were all sent out.

As for the twenty new recruits, they were taken back at this time and did not receive any special training for the time being.

It doesn’t take that many people to trace the source.

"I heard about this from Director Li of the Transportation Bureau..."

"Section Chief Wang of the National Defense Department..."

"Court Secretary Zhao..."

Xu Qingyun tracked the matter down quickly. The Military Intelligence Department came to him, but they were not particularly powerful people, so he readily told them the source of the information he had heard.

"Teahouse?"

Soon, he asked someone who knew about it earlier. He was a big mouth and liked gossip. He would share anything he heard with others.

He learned the source of the news from what two people at the next table said while drinking tea.

What the people at the next table said was very detailed, and he listened with great interest, and told others about it when he came back.

But he didn't know the two people at the next table.

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