Mercenary I am the king

Chapter 473 The White-haired Witch's Suspicion

Langley, Virginia.

CIA Covert Operations Director Kelly was watching TV in her office.

On TV, the Venezuelan president was giving a passionate speech to his people, fiercely accusing Americans of conducting espionage activities in the country.

Kelly has white hair, but she is actually only fifty years old.

She has hereditary gray hair. Her family has a gene for early gray hair, so Kelly started to have gray hair in her twenties. By the age of forty, her hair was completely white.

In Langley, she has a nickname - the White-haired Witch.

Not only is his hair gray, but his heart is also crueler.

The full name of the National Clandestine Operations Service is "National Clandestine Operations Service". It is responsible for secret intelligence collection and covert operations. It was formerly called the "Operations Service". Earlier this year, the Clandestine Operations Service absorbed the Department of Defense's Human Intelligence Bureau and became the CIA's highest authority department for human intelligence collection and covert operations.

A woman in charge of the operations department would never be able to reach this position without some drastic measures and toughness and ruthlessness.

Soon, images of the three agents' bodies appeared on the screen.

Although some information was blurred, after Kelly saw the equipment carried by these agents released by the Venezuelan side, she was basically able to conclude that these were peripheral agents from her intelligence gathering department.

The level of secrecy of these peripheral agents is not high. They are locals developed by regular employees of the Intelligence Collection Department in each target country.

These locals have different identities. Some are local elites, while others are ordinary people who work for money.

They would be sent to collect intelligence near some sensitive targets and then send it back to Langley through their superiors.

Kelly does not believe Venezuela's version of the killing.

According to them, the three men resisted being arrested and were eventually shot dead by the military.

These peripheral agents usually only receive simple intelligence gathering skills training, such as how to take photos, how to pretend to be tourists and visit near the target to obtain some information from the local population, and even how to use hand-drawn calibrated detailed terrain maps near the target.

They are not high-level agents, nor are they action agents, and they usually do not carry weapons. After all, carrying weapons is tantamount to hiding one's true identity and telling others that one is an agent.

Sometimes, if you don't carry any weapons, even if you are stopped and searched, you can avoid the trouble of being caught by passing yourself off as a tourist.

Therefore, how can we resist without even weapons?

Resist with fists?
Kelly had read the report sent by the Intelligence Collection Office. The target of this reconnaissance was a special forces training school located in southern Venezuela.

There are fragmentary reports that this school is related to the recent failure of Operation Viper in Colombia.

Operation Viper was a joint operation between the White House and the Colombian government, carried out under the banner of drug control, but was aimed at the ELN armed forces.

However, the operation was later leaked, causing an uproar in domestic public opinion and the Senate holding a hearing, which led to the operation being suspended.

The most surprising thing is that the ELN armed forces of several thousand people were defeated after the withdrawal of the Colombian government forces and the US technical forces. At least 70% of the army of tens of thousands of people have been wiped out and incorporated in just one week.

So far, the ELN has incorporated nearly 20,000 AUC troops, killed or injured more than 2,000, occupied most of the territory that originally belonged to the AUC, and has no intention of stopping.

According to the analysis department's assessment, AUC will no longer exist after one month.

From a military perspective, this was an incredible victory, but for the Americans, it was undoubtedly a crushing defeat, even a humiliation.

People in the White House asked the CIA to immediately investigate what had happened.

Kelly is the supervisor in charge of this investigation.

After reading all the briefings, she found that the AUC forces suffered a crushing defeat because they were subjected to astonishingly intense bombing shortly after the government forces withdrew.

Four thermobaric bombs were dropped, killing over a thousand AUC soldiers and wiping out the entire AUC command structure. Reports from Columbia indicated that the explosions were powerful, comparable to miniaturized nuclear bombs.

But Kelly was sure that it was not a nuclear bomb, but a high-yield thermobaric bomb.

As for what type of aircraft dropped the bombs, an investigation revealed that neither the Colombian Air Force nor ground radar detected any clues on the day of the bombing.

No one knows who dropped these high-yield thermobaric bombs, or what type of aircraft flew into Colombia to drop the bombs.

After a video conference with the Colombian side, there was no solid evidence except that some people suspected that the Venezuelan side had sent planes to cross the border and bomb the AUC.

This bunch of rubbish!

Just when Kelly was at a loss, intelligence personnel deployed in Colombia suddenly sent a briefing. That night in a village in the San Jose area, someone heard the sound of a plane flying low.

Kelly immediately pulled up the map and took a closer look, and found that San Jose was on the border between Colombia and Venezuela, and was in the south.

She suddenly remembered something, so she asked someone to find some briefings sent by Venezuelan intelligence personnel in the past six months, and look for information about a new special forces school in the south.

This information was mentioned during a meeting with the South American branch. Someone said that a private defense company had recently built a new special forces school in Venezuela, which was of the same nature as the military academy established by Blackwater there. It was also said that the private defense company called "Musician" had an unusual relationship with the Venezuelan Army and had acquired a large piece of land in the southern region at one time at extremely low rent.

At that time, Kelly did not pay much attention to this information.

After all, Blackwater itself has opened schools in Venezuela, so it's not a big deal.

Private defense companies are all about business, making money, so there's nothing shameful about that.

Now she remembered the message.

There was intelligence information before that the ELN armed forces had sent some key personnel to a military academy called "Falcon" for training.

Putting all these fragments of information together, Kelly suddenly felt that this newly built special forces school was very suspicious.

All the evidence seems to point vaguely there.

This time, the ELN armed forces were able to make a comeback and even annex the territory of the AUC armed forces. Could it be related to this school?

You should know that this school was established by a defense company, and one of the defense company's businesses is mercenary business.

Could it be that this company provided military guidance to the ELN and even intervened in the operation, leading to its failure?

So, could the wave of public opinion stirred up in the country by the editor-in-chief Fair also be related to this company?

She immediately asked someone to retrieve the company's files, and on the first page was Song Heping's resume.

The fact that she was Chinese made Karen feel a little nervous.

Reading further, I discovered that this person actually had experience serving in the PLA, and my suspicions grew even stronger.

After reading Song Heping's brief introduction, Kelly discovered that this person's identity was extremely complicated. Not only did he have unclear connections with the US military, but he had also had several confrontations with the CIA's Irrigation Station in Irrigation before.

All the doubts made Kelly order the team to be sent out.

After all, what puzzled Kelly was that a military school and a private company actually had the ability to carry out air strikes on targets in Colombia?

If this is true, it's terrible!

　Asking for a monthly ticket!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)