Three days later, Illiguo, Green Zone.
Simon entered his office, habitually took off his coat and draped it over his chair, then sat down to start up his computer, and took out an important docunt from the drawer to start reading.
This was an unfinished official docunt from yesterday, about the progress report of the investigation into Sadam's weapons of mass destruction.
For a CIA Station Chief in Illigo, his biggest task at the mont was to find WMDs in the controlled regions within Illiguo.
It was on this pretext that Britain and the United States invaded Illiguo years ago.
Now, two years had passed, and there still seed to be no trace of the WMDs.
The military, intelligence departnts, and intelligence organizations of other coalition countries were all searching for that thing.
But not a single departnt had any results.
And recently a major incident occurred.
It was an accident, and it had occurred back in '03, but only now was it starting to fernt.
It all started with a female employee of Britain's Governnt Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), nad Catherine Gun.
Back then, when Arica was planning to send troops to Illiguo, the CIA concocted the reasons for deploynt, which was based on the intelligence analysis from a report drafted by British weapons expert David Kelly, claiming that Sadam had control over WMDs.
It was for this reason that the United States joined forces with Britain to vote in UN Security Council to take action against Sadam.
The issue caused an uproar in Great Britain, with a million people taking to the streets to protest the illegal deploynt without authorization.
It was then that Catherine, who was working at the communications headquarters, received a letter from the Arican National Security Agency, asking Britain to assist in eavesdropping on the undecided ambassadors of other countries at the Security Council in order to lobby before the eting and gain more initiative.
This classified information was handed over by Catherine through a journalist she knew to the willing Observer newspaper and soon beca an international headline, causing a dia sensation.
Unsurprisingly, the GCHQ began an "internal traitor purge" operation, and not long after, the leaker Catherine was arrested, detained, and started to be put on trial.
Although the incident did not stop the outbreak of the war in Illiguo, it did plant a bomb.
The case lasted for over a year and finally ended right before going to court in '04, with the prosecution voluntarily withdrawing the case.
The British prosecution withdrew the case apparently to prevent more insider details from being exposed in court. After all, the war had started, the objective had been achieved, and the investigation into the leak had beco unnecessary.
But this was not without consequences.
The consequence was another dia sensation.
Withdrawing the charges ant admitting Catherine was telling the truth, that the information about listening in on UN representatives existed, and it was a hundred percent genuine scandal.
The storm of public opinion once again put Aricans and the British on the spot, and the CIA on this end was under unprecedented pressure.
To offset the influence of public opinion, there was no better way than to find WMDs to verify Sadam's cris.
As a CIA Station Chief at the Illigo Station, Simon beca a rat in a hole, on the one hand bearing the pressure of the dia, and on the other, the pressure from his superiors, which was why Simon had been feeling very burned out lately.
As he was intently reading the progress report, suddenly a ding notification sound ca from his computer.
Simon glanced up slightly and saw a red-flagged docunt pop up in the CIA's work system.
A red-flagged docunt ant it was urgent and very important.
He had to put down the docunt in hand and clicked on the email.
It was a request for assistance notification.
Generally speaking, when a major incident occurs and the headquarters is clueless, a request for assistance notice is issued to each CIA work station around the world, asking each station to use their resources in accordance with the report attached after the notice to find clues, which are then compiled and reported.
Simon quickly read the content and found out it was an issue at the Southeast Asia Station.
An intelligence officer nad Joyce had gone missing in Myanmar, according to available intelligence, Joyce, and two SEAL team mbers were attacked, with the two SEALs killed and Joyce's whereabouts unknown.
Simon's eyebrows raised slightly.
He thought to himself that there were still people in Myanmar with such fierce combat capabilities.
His first thought was China's Special Forces.
But as he read on, his brows gradually furrowed.
Because the report ntioned that during the attack, the attackers were heard using Russian, and even English, and from the figure of the attackers, there were both Asians and Da Maozi, it didn't seem like China's Special Forces.
Simon kept reading and beca increasingly alard.
The report stated that after Joyce was attacked, the SEAL team stationed in Siem Reap went to Myanmar to pursue, mobilizing a reconnaissance platoon, a Civilian Military Special Forces, and, in the end, almost an entire reconnaissance platoon was wiped out, the Civilian Military "Cobra" Special Forces lost more than twenty n, and even the SEAL team going to pursue the enemy suffered one dead and one injured.
This incident was far from over.
A few days later, Captain Harold, who was responsible for leading that SEAL team, died in his lover's house in Siem Reap. At the scene, it looked like both were hanging naked on the bed, and sildenafil citrate, also known as Viagra, was found, and the autopsy revealed both died of heart attacks due to overly vigorous exertion.
Of course, the Aricans did not accept this outco.
They brought Harold's body back to the United States and perford an autopsy in a top-tier laboratory.
In the end, they found a drug residue in Harold's body that could cause sudden cardiac arrest, a drug rarely seen in clinical dicine and generally used by agents to assassinate targets.
From this, the Langley headquarters concluded that Captain Harold died by murder, not natural causes.
Relating to the previous actions in the Golden Triangle area, Langley's intelligence analysts believed this could be a retaliation.
The basis was that the SEAL team's action report indicated their sniper had injured an attacker, who was eventually rescued by the opposition and it was uncertain if they had died.
To retaliate against a SEAL team commander for the sake of one injured person.
To describe it in Langley's view was "morbidly insane" and utterly unacceptable.
Therefore, a global red notice for assistance was issued, asking all stations to provide clues, as such a powerfully combative team was bound to have so renown in various countries and would not be unknown.
After reading, Simon sat in his chair deep in thought for a long ti.
Suddenly, he recalled a previous assistance report.
It was about a Green Berets going completely missing in the Colombian jungle while assisting in combating the anti-governnt ard forces ELN.
That was a report from three months ago.
After searching for a while, he finally found it and read through it carefully again.
Then, he thought of Song Heping and his "Musician" Defense.
A minute later, he picked up the phone.
"Bobby, check the recent whereabouts of all personnel from 'Musician' Defense for , and send a report to my office."
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