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In Seoul, senior officials from the Far East Intelligence Command, the CIA, the United Nations Command, and the Eighth Army Staff Headquarters gathered in a dark basement, with abnormal expressions on everyone's faces. The person in charge of the CIA Far East felt like he had eaten a fly.The people in the US Far East Intelligence Command look like they have insiders.The officers of the United Nations Army and the 8th Army are like gamblers who lost their money gambling last night, and sold their house today to raise the last pile of money and exchanged it for chips to bet on the gambling table.

"Sergeant Tan Jialiang, this is the recording of the intercepted wireless call of the Chinese army. Please translate the content and help us decipher the code words and code names in it."

"Bai Er Bai Er, I am the shopkeeper."...

The wire tape recorder whizzed, and the radio conversation with a lot of noise began to play back.

"Sir, the first sentence is a person named 'Treasurer', who is calling a person named 'Bai Er'." Tan Jialiang said, "The shopkeeper, that is, the boss, the boss or the general manager, in short, it may mean that this person is The identity of a manager. Baier, Bai can be understood as the surname of a Chinese, er is the second of [-], it can be understood as an inferior person who has no name but a surname, and is randomly given by their boss There is another possibility for the easy-to-remember names, that is, Bai [-], [-], [-], and [-], which may represent the numbers of the subordinate troops."

"... Fish No. 0 is a fish assigned the number [-] by them. Sir, if there are other recordings where No. [-] and No. [-] fish appear, then it will be easier for us to understand and speculate together."

The staff officer of the 8th Army put down his pen and wanted to say a few words, but the CIA officer next to him raised his hand to signal him not to say anything.

"Fish number 0, very good. Thank you, please continue to explain the next sentence."

"Yuanbao and silver yuan... I don't think there is any need to explain the silver yuan. Yuanbao is a silver-cast currency commonly used in the Ming and Qing dynasties of China. It is also commonly known as silver ingots. It is very heavy and very large..."

"How much is it? How many silver dollars is equal to one ingot?"

"The weight of ingots varies from big to small. The small ones are two taels, and the big ones are fifty taels..."

……

Tan Jialiang translated and explained the three or four intercepted calls one by one, and the person in charge asked him to go out, and then held a meeting behind closed doors.

"The radio conversations of these Chinese people, my judgment is that they have learned the information about Lieutenant General Walker's travel in advance. It should be like this." The director of the CIA Far East said.

"I agree. There is a serious problem with our secrecy."

Senior officials and military officers spoke and voted, and most of them agreed with the conclusion that "the secret has been leaked".

"Then now we will continue to look for clues, which link leaked the secret."

"The telegram was sent to the 8th Division by the 24th Army Communications Department."

"Is it wire telegraphy or wireless telegraphy?"

"Wireless, encrypted."

"Why no telegraph?"

"Since December 12th, the wired telegram from Seoul to Uijin has hardly been easy. There have been guerrillas who have been sabotaging it. We speculate that the guerrillas who cut the telegraph line were the same small group that attacked Lieutenant General Walker the day before yesterday. Troops." The staff officer of the 20th Army said.

"Then, let's first discuss the sending and receiving process of wireless secret messages." The person in charge of the US Far East Intelligence Command said, "When was the secret message sent?"

“根据通信处的记录，1950年12月23日上午8时50分发送电报，通知24师准备在当天11时迎接沃克将军。”

"The first recording of the walkie-talkie was received at 12:23 am on December 9." The director of the CIA interrupted, "Let's rule out the possibility of leaking the secret message first, and focus on other, more likely In terms of clues."

"Why rule out the possibility of password leaks?" asked the head of the Far East Intelligence Command.

"Obviously. When was the last time we changed the keys of the M-209? On December 12th, ah, because your army has a battalion-level unit that was wiped out, the cipher machine may have been seized," said the director of the CIA. , "How many days is it from December 11th to today's 12th? 11 days. Do you know why the M-24 is a cipher machine that cannot be effectively broken?" During the war, the German General Staff cracked part of the M-13 The telegrams accounted for a little over 209% of the M-209 telegrams they intercepted. But how long did it take for the fastest one? 209 days. It took 10 days from receiving the telegram to reading out the content behind the password This is the fastest record they have cracked. Do you now think that Chinese mathematicians deciphered the code from the ocean of numbers, sent the code to the Chinese army headquarters at the front, and the headquarters notified the front-line reconnaissance troops, and the reconnaissance troops then used A walkie-talkie informs partisans operating in enemy territory that all this takes only 20 minutes? Impossible. Even German mathematicians can't do it. It takes at least three times as long for yellow people to do this. It's not me Random nonsense, in the Pacific battlefield, until the Japanese were defeated, they only cracked 20% of the M-40 messages, and the fastest one took 2 days."

"..."

The basement was noisy for a while, and many officials and military officers still expressed their objections. "Perhaps starting from December 12th, the Chinese happened to find the key we replaced this time, not that they only had 11 minutes to crack it."

But the director of the CIA added another sentence: "It takes 20 days for the Germans to crack it, but it takes 11 days for the Chinese to crack it. Is it possible?"

Although it is a patch, it is also difficult to refute.

"I think we should seriously check the leakage of secrets from the people who handled the telegram circulation during the process of copying and sending the telegram." The director of the CIA said.

……

24 hours later, another basement.

The military intelligence staff of South Korea's Ministry of National Defense led the CIA director into the dark room.

"On the 23rd, a total of 2 South Koreans came into contact with the news during the process of sending and receiving the secret message." The military intelligence staff said, "These two people contacted and possibly told another 7 people during the activity of the next hour. Directly Those who contacted the secrets were Kim Young-kwon and Jung Seung-hyun. The indirect suspects of leaking secrets were Kim Min-jae, Kwon Kyung-won, Lee Yong, Kim Moon-hwan, Hwang Eui-ju, Kim Jin-soo, and Hong Chul. We found these 9 people and interrogated them. However, 4 People have confessed, and we are still going further to find out who the key leaker is."

The director of the CIA opens the first room.Jin Yingquan was tied to the chair in the middle, unable to speak.

"On the morning of the 23rd, you were in the Communications Office of the 24th Division and served as the deputy leader of the Korea Liaison Group. You heard the news that General Walker was coming to discuss the government. Yuan and Li Rong had a drink together and revealed to them the news that Walker is coming here, is that true?"

Jin Yingquan still couldn't close his jaw, and one of his eyes was swollen to the point where there was only a slit left. He only nodded when he heard the words of the director of the CIA.

The director of the CIA stopped talking, frowned and slapped the interrogation report on the table next to him, turned around and walked out.

"Kwon Kyung-won, you confessed that you sold the information about General Walker's coming to discuss the government to the North Korean guerrillas?"

"Yes, yes, I am an undercover agent, I am an undercover agent." Quan Jingyuan said.

"...How many benefits have you received?"

"Charged $300, no, $400..."

"Where are those dollars now?"

"exist……"

The director of the CIA picked up the interrogation report to read, shook his head, turned around to leave, and found something strange that the leather shoe had stepped on the ground, and looked down, it was a severed finger.The director carefully kicked the two scattered fingers to a corner of the room that was not easy to step on, and then took another look at Quan Jingyuan, who was still in a mental breakdown, and left.

……

"None of the confessions are correct. None of them are the people I am looking for. Kim Young-kwon leaked the so-called information at 10 am while drinking. This time is too late. As I said, it should be earlier than 9 am. The person who leaked the information at 30 points is the key person. As for that Huang Yizhu, he was simply forced to speak nonsense, because the content of his confession did not match the content of the secret telegram. Not only did he not leak the information to the guerrillas, he even There is no real information. So Jung Seung-hyun’s confession is also false.”

Walking out of the basement, the director of the CIA said to the South Korean intelligence staff.

The intelligence officer bowed his head and remained silent.

"Gentlemen, it is a pity that the search for manpower leaks has not found results for the time being. From now on, I suggest that the Eighth Army reset the key of M-8."

After 48 hours of investigation, the speculation of "possible undercover leak" put forward by the director of the CIA has not been confirmed.

"I fully agree with this, it is very necessary." The head of the Far East Intelligence Command added, "First of all, the Eighth Army, the Marine Corps Command, the US Navy and the Air Force, all those who directly or indirectly use M-8 encryption Units, replace the keys immediately. Second, the key replacement cycle must be restored to the frequency we had when we fought on the Western Front in World War II. Now it is replaced every 209 weeks, and it must be changed to once every 5 weeks. Third, A new key table must be issued to each unit. The communication personnel who stored or memorized the old key table have already captured 2 people in their positions. It is very likely that some of them have already confessed to the Chinese. "

"It will take a long time for all the new key sheets to be sent." The staff officer of the Eighth Army said, "Many troops have not yet recovered from the chaos, and it will take some time to find out where their headquarters are."

"There is a more serious problem," interjected another staff officer, "if the key sheet is distributed now, there is a danger that the 'postman' who distributes the key will be intercepted by guerrillas, killed or captured, wherever In either case, the key table will be leaked. Therefore, I suggest that the key table be distributed after the battle line is stabilized."

"In addition to these measures, have you noticed another fact?" The officer of the United Nations Army Staff finally added, "The telegram intercepted on the 23rd included the call between 'Bai Er' and the shopkeeper, and 'Bai Er' 50 minutes later. 'Conversations with 'Tiger Two', 'Tiger Three' and 'Tiger Four'. According to the battles in the afternoon and evening of the 23rd, Bai Er was a small-scale guerrilla force with dozens to nearly a hundred people. Ranked up to twelve, that is to say, in this small unit, almost every infantry squad has a wireless voice communication device."

People from the CIA and the Far East Intelligence Department haven't reacted for a while.

"For our U.S. Army troops, SCR-536 is only deployed to the platoon." The UN Army staff officer just now broke the silence on the field, "About 40 people have a walkie-talkie."

"So, this is by no means a North Korean guerrilla, but a special force of the Chinese regular army."