American Scandal King

Chapter 280 I Want Lockheed Martin Shares
2003, April 5.

On this day, a piece of news came that shocked the world.

Saddam Hussein captured!

Lieutenant General Jay Garner publicly declared that under his leadership, US soldiers had long been aware of Saddam's movements. They eavesdropped on all of Saddam's operational arrangements, made targeted combat deployments, further precisely struck Saddam's army, and closed the net at the last moment.

At the same time, Lieutenant General Jay Garner publicly expressed his gratitude to Mr. Ian Carr for his help.

This is necessary, because Ian Carr is going to release information about Saddam, and the public will definitely know that Ian Carr is with Saddam, but Ian Carr will explain it as: all this was agreed upon with Lieutenant General Ghana, and it was the guidance from the wise and brave Lieutenant General, and he was prepared for a rainy day and made arrangements in advance. He is just a loyal soldier of the United States and the Lieutenant General!
Good!

After the news came out, the world was shocked again.

So Ian Carr disappeared for two months and went to Iraq, going into exile with Saddam?

After the news broke, CBS benefited the most.

CBS stock price soared!

The reason for this is that News Corporation and Cal Media were not listed at that time, and CBS was the only listed American news company under the two major groups. The old man released all the good news through CBS.

This is also the reason why Murdoch was willing to give the broadcasting rights of the Oscars and Super Bowl to LANN... Not counting the news value, the benefits brought by the increase in stock price alone far exceed the signing fees for the two major broadcasting rights... This is equivalent to Ian's news remuneration. He also has to get paid for sharing breaking news, right?
What followed was that News Corp and Carr Media's major platforms began broadcasting Ian Carr's trip to Iraq.

This has been a two-month-long news drama!

In episode one, Ian Carr leaves the airport and sees the fleeing civilians. In episode two, Ian Carr meets with Saddam Hussein. In episode three, Ian Carr explores life before the war. In episode four, Ian Carr participates in Saddam's resistance strategy. In episode five...

Anyway, there are nearly fifty days left, so there is plenty of content to create.

Even this did not satisfy Ian, as the news only needed to be presented in part, but a large number of details were not suitable for broadcast.

So after Ian passed a large amount of content to Carl Media, someone had already started to edit it in full to make a documentary called "Days with Saddam."

Of course, it won’t be released now. Instead, all the news will be released first, and then the documentary will be played. It’s like selling the same content twice, but the key is that the audience buys it!
After all, there are still many details!
For example, Saddam treated his subordinates cruelly during his escape.

There are only a few sentences in your news, but the documentary is much more detailed.

In order to maximize profits, the documentary was shamelessly divided into fifteen episodes instead of just one.

Let me put it this way, the first month was a series of news reports about Saddam, and the second month was a documentary!
Originally, the news of Saddam’s capture was only a hot topic for a few days, but now, after Ian’s work, it has become a comprehensive decryption with many hot topics, many inside stories, and a lot of news, which is continuously effective!
The news will be broadcast exclusively by the two major media groups, while the documentary will be broadcast exclusively by LANN, in order to quickly increase the number of LANN users and reach an agreement.

Under such circumstances, the global media is wailing.

Such good news has fallen to these two companies!
Anyway, these two months are the glory days for News Corporation and Carr Media!
But for Ian, there are still many opportunities to be exploited!

………………

May 5, Presidential Palace in Baghdad.

"Cheers!" Ian smiled and clinked glasses with Lieutenant General Jay Garner and Chief Executive Paul Bremer.

They each took a seat.

Lieutenant General Jay Garner laughed and said, "I've seen the content, it's really exciting. Do you know what my favorite is?"

Ian laughed and said, "Uday and Saddam killed innocent people!"

Lieutenant General Jay Garner laughed heartily. If he understood Chinese, he would definitely say, "The one who understands me is Ian Carr."

The United States dispatched troops this time bypassing the United Nations and lacked a righteous justification.

Ian Carr collected evidence of Saddam's atrocities, which was of great benefit to the United States.

The more brutal Saddam became, the more international public opinion supported the United States. Although Americans are accustomed to being unreasonable, their unreasonableness is still based on the pretense that "we are reasonable."

So what's wrong with a more beautiful disguise?
Ian shook his head: "I'm still considering whether to release this part."

Jay Garner was stunned, but Paul Bremer understood what he meant and said with a smile, "Ian, don't be like this. We have already given you enough benefits."

Ian shook his head. "That's two different things, Paul. Those things were exchanged for Saddam's wealth and the news about Baghdad. News about Saddam was not part of the original negotiation. I have the right to choose the news!"

Paul Bremer looked at him speechlessly.

He really wanted to say, "I know you won't keep this news from me," but he knew Ian Karl's appetite better.

He said, "We can't give you any more oil fields."

Ian shook his head and said, "It's not an oil field."

"What is that?" Jay Garner finally understood.

You just want to increase the stakes and get benefits.

But whether it is Uday or Saddam, they are all hot news, and you, Ian Carr, can't bear to let them go, so Jay Garner doesn't intend to make too many promises to him.

Ian said directly: "I want to buy shares of Lockheed Martin."

what?
The two were stunned.

Lockheed Martin is the world's largest defense contractor, with countless cutting-edge technologies.

This is a listed company, but as a defense company, you can't control it just by buying its stocks. It requires cooperation from Lockheed Martin itself and even the White House.

So what Ian wants is not shares, but a seat on Lockheed Martin's board of directors. Any purchase of more than 5% of shares must be announced. If Lockheed Martin does not accept it, it can be stopped or even retaliated.

He wanted this for Lockheed Martin's high technology.

It’s not that Ian couldn’t steal it, but for a large company like this, their technical information and drawings alone are shipped by the truckload.

You just want to take some remote-controlled cameras and take pictures of the drawings?

That’s really not easy!
Not to mention that the company is too big. If you want to go in stealthily to do things, you will strain your eyes.

Therefore, it is necessary to have the authority to enter important sites of Lockheed Martin openly.

What could be more aboveboard than a director?

Once he becomes a director and obtains a large amount of scientific and technological information, he can sell it to China.

That thing is really cool!
He didn't need to explain his little tricks. He just smiled and said, "I don't want much. A seat on the board of directors is enough. Market price! You just need to help me convince them."

Hearing this, Jay Garner let out a long sigh.

Military-industrial enterprises rely on soldiers for their livelihood, so if the military boss asks for help, they have to give him face.

He laughed and said, "That's not a big problem, but Lockheed Martin is a defense company. As a member of the media, you can only..."

Ian raised his hand to stop him: "I just want to make money. I won't ask anything else that I shouldn't ask. Now is a time of war, and arms are a good time to make money!"

I will definitely not participate, otherwise if Lockheed Martin's core technology leaks out in the future, it will be my fault.

If you ask me later, I'm just a pure shareholder. I don't have any scientific research secrets. You can go find the Chinese agents!
Jay Garner laughed: "Happy collaboration then!"

(End of this chapter)