Manhattan Reborn 1978

new York.

42nd Street, Wildfire Bar.

The little Zach looked at Neil Walker leaving and asked David: "Who is he?"

"Haha~ New friends~"

"Oh?"

"Do I need to pay special attention to him?"

David put down the cocktail shaker in his hand, thought for a while and shook his head slightly: "No~ Where is Mike Bai? Let him help me check on Neil Walker~"

"Check him? Okay!"

The little Zach was stunned for a moment, and without asking any more questions, he nodded directly and went to find Mike Bai.

From two brief encounters, Neil Walker is just an ordinary guy. .

no~

He is already considered a very hard-working white-collar elite.

But David still has no clues to determine his identity from the existing information.

Like. .David still can't find any useful clues in his memory about Ben Whitcott, the eldest of the three brothers who collided with each other. .

David wiped his hands, leaned against the wine cabinet and took a sip of juice. When he was thinking about Neil Walker, he suddenly thought of Larry Allison.

Oracle!

Among the companies that endured the bursting of the Internet bubble in 2000 and are still active in the market, Oracle has to be said to be a slightly low-key alternative.

It is not like Microsoft, which has been stared at by all parties, and has been sent to antitrust courts several times; nor is it like Apple, which appears in various media reports in a high-profile way and constantly attracts attention; let alone Google, Face Like a book, it needs wider visibility and more traffic to increase its market share and competitiveness.

Oracle's software business has been quietly and rapidly expanding in the enterprise-level market that is out of reach of ordinary people.

Later, it was not until its market value exceeded that of IBM that Oracle became known to more ordinary people!

IBM, David does not intend to make large-scale key investments in it.

There are many reasons for this decision, but the most important one is that the various forces behind it are intertwined. Many people were staring at the giant of the computer industry, IBM, at the dawn before the computer industry fully emerged!

David shook the cup in his hand gently, as if the noisy sounds in the surrounding bars gradually became blurry and distant.

Apple!

Today's Apple is an era dominated by the young and energetic Steve Jobs!

Jobs's character flaws determined that he would be forced to leave Apple a few years later under the pressure of constantly pursuing more profit capital.

Would Apple still become the world's most valuable company without Steve Jobs?

If Steve Jobs were not paranoid, would he still be Steve Jobs?

Emm. .

Putting aside Microsoft, which has not yet emerged, David feels that the best investment projects now are none other than Oracle and Larry Ellison!

As for now, Apple has begun to show its talents. .

Let Pine pay more attention to it~

As long as we can get some of Apple's original shares before its stock goes public, that will be fine~

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Manhattan.

Gold Coin Hotel, tenth floor.

Mr. Otis Parker opened the door to the room and smiled at the unexpected visitor in front of him.

"Please come in~"

Ezra Cremo, director of the New York CIA, strode past Mr. Parker and entered the room.

Mr. Parker closed the door, curiously looked at Mr. Cremo who was taking off his clothes, and smiled.

"The bathroom is over there. There is a bathrobe in it. Do you want me to take you there?"

"No need~" Claymore quickly took off all his clothes, leaving only a pair of underwear.

He bent down, held the clothes in his arms, and walked quickly into the bathroom.

After a few minutes.

Mr. Cremo walked out of the bathroom naked, walked around in front of Mr. Parker, put on the bathrobe in his hand, and sat on the sofa in the living room.

Mr. Parker walked to the bar with a smile, took two glasses, a bottle of good wine, and a black rectangular box, walked over to Claymo and sat down.

After pressing a green button on the black box, he poured himself a glass of wine and made an inviting gesture to Claymo.

Claymore stared at the black box for a few times, poured a glass of wine, took a deep breath, drank it, and said.

"I have a few questions to ask you~"

"Haha~ I guessed it!"

Mr. Parker pointed to the black box and the bathrobe on Claymore and said with a smile: "Our conversation will not be eavesdropped by anyone."

"You can feel free to ask!"

Claymore took a sip of his drink and nodded: "The stumbling block plan you talked about last time...can you tell me more about the specific content?"

"stumbling block?"

Mr. Parker raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He stood up and walked to the window. After closing the curtains, he sat back in his seat and asked curiously.

"Didn't you say last time that it was your top secret?"

"Yes~ But now, I want to know more!"

Mr. Parker stared at Claymore for more than ten seconds, then pondered for a moment before speaking.

"I can tell you everything I know~"

"But you have to understand, there is no free lunch in the world!"

Claymore raised his neck and drained the wine in the glass, and whispered: "I understand~ You can just ask for the conditions!"

"Haha~ don't rush yet!"

Mr. Parker smiled and poured another drink for Claymo, and said softly: "Let me think about it, where should I start first...?"

"Um.."

"Do you know about the mk special plan?"

"I know ~ the hearing of Senator Churchill in 1975..."

"Yes! That's it!"

Mr. Parker adjusted his sitting position and found a more comfortable position. He crossed his legs and slowly told a history.

"To make it clear about the stumbling block plan, we have to start with the mk special plan."

"On February 1954, 2, CIA executives received an experimental research report from Professor Sidney Gott, a psychiatrist and chemist."

"In this report, Professor Gott recorded that the project team he was responsible for conducted hypnosis and programmed life thought control experiments on a young woman."

"Professor Gott used his professional skills and psychedelic drugs to hypnotize this girl many times."

"As for this girl, after being hypnotized many times during the experiment, when she heard the orders given by Professor Gott, she would instantly enter a controlled and involuntary state similar to sleepwalking from her normal state. state of consciousness.”

"She would do things that she would never do under normal circumstances."

"Moreover, after she woke up and released from the hypnotic state, she had no memory of what she had done. The memory in her mind was still before she accepted the order."

"Later, some time after the experiment, Professor Gott gave the girl an even more chilling order."

"He asked this girl to wake up his sleeping best friend with an unloaded revolver."

"If this girl's best friend can't be woken up, she will shoot her best friend and kill her."

"As a result, after receiving the order, although the girl was somewhat physically slow and resistant, she still smoothly completed the instructions given by Professor Gott, and chose to shoot without being able to wake up her best friend. . . ”

"However, this girl was selected because she has a very serious phobia of guns and weapons."

"In a normal waking state, she would never touch any guns or weapons..."

"Even the kitchen knives in her home kitchen, or a small fruit knife, this girl would not take the initiative to touch them."

With a sneer on his lips, Mr. Parker picked up the wine glass, took a sip, and continued.

"Sidney Gott was originally just an ordinary physician and scientist employed by the CIA."

"After the top CIA officials saw his experimental research report, they immediately decided to accept his suggestion and use the results of this experiment on some agents."

"At this point, the CIA's mental and thought control plan, the "MK Special" plan, has officially begun."

"Because the mk special plan is the result of Sidney's proposal to control the minds of agents."

"So, CIA appointed Professor Sidney Gott as the person in charge of this project, and started a comprehensive and unknown secret experiment within CIA."

"In the following decades, Professor Gott joined the CIA. After taking charge of the MK Special Program, he played a crucial role in many of the CIA's top-secret projects."

"The 1975 Congressman Churchill hearing you just mentioned was one of Professor Gott's secret experimental plans."

Mr. Parker raised his glass, shook it gently towards Cremo and said.

"Hypnosis doesn't work for everyone."

"Professor Sidney Gott, as a chemist, naturally thought of using psychedelic drugs to create strong hallucinations and then perform deep hypnosis."

"In order to test the hallucinogenic effects of psychedelic drugs, he beheaded his colleagues within the CIA..."

"What he didn't expect was that this colleague behaved like a real mental patient when it came to the hallucinations caused by psychedelic drugs."

"He was put directly in a mental hospital..."

"Later, after Professor Gott tried to get him out of the mental hospital, he jumped from the tenth floor window of a hotel in New York and committed suicide."

"All of this was mentioned in the 1975 Rockefeller Commission Report."

"Later, the family of Sidney's colleague received a pension of $75."

When Claymore heard this, he narrowed his eyes with a dull expression and stared at Mr. Parker before continuing.

"In 1975, President Gerald Ford announced the establishment of the Rockefeller Commission to investigate the illegal activities of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)."

"I know about this."

"But before Senator Churchill's hearing began, several key figures in the MK Special Plan died inexplicably, including Johnny Rossley, Sam Janka and others..."

"Haha~" Mr. Parker interrupted Claymo's story with two sneers.

"They are all abandoned children who were thrown out after the plan was exposed~"

"The mk special plan has never stopped!"

Mr. Parker put down his legs, sat up straight, and said with a serious expression.

"The Stumbling Block Project is an extension of the MK Teji Project~"

"Professor Sidney Gott, after more than 20 years of secret experimental research, has compiled a very complete theory on the means of controlling people's thoughts and spirits."

"The Stumbling Block Project is the CIA using this mind control theory to conduct multiple hypnosis, concept induction, and reconstruction of thinking and behavior patterns for agents."

"After taking psychedelic drugs and being hypnotized, these agents will become cold-blooded killers with psychological differences from ordinary people!"

"Furthermore, in order to achieve better results in conjunction with the mind control plan, CIA has also created a corresponding set of physical training, sere!"

"The concept of sere training, simply put, is to simulate the real experience of a prisoner after being arrested."

"When these agents, who usually pretend to be ordinary people, are caught, put in bags, and taken to an inaccessible wilderness, the bags are taken off, stripped naked, and driven into a house to face one or more interrogators. hour."

"What kind of mental abuse will they suffer? How much torture and inhuman interrogation methods will they endure?"

"In the hands of some interrogators with special interrogation skills, they will use water torture, imprisonment in a small and dark space, prolonged exposure to the sun, or being locked in a cold storage to cause the person being interrogated to have a mental breakdown."

"Therefore, the person being interrogated will often break down his mental defenses within 48-72 hours and reveal all the information he knows."

"So, the purpose of sere training is that as long as you experience it more, the pressure it brings to you will become less."

Mr. Parker's expression became stern, and his voice was full of disdain, ridicule and anger.

"When you ask a person to do something under great mental pressure, it is entirely based on giving them corresponding training experience, rather than a new challenge that they have never experienced before."

"This kind of training to treat people as human beings can only be thought up by the perverts of your CIA, right?"

"When agents perform tasks abroad, they must abide by special work rules such as concealment, survival, obtaining intelligence, avoidance, resistance, and escape."

"I can still understand these~"

"But you, CIA, completely regard these agents who have gone through the MK special plan and SERE training as cold-blooded killers to realize your own terrorist plans."

"In my opinion, the relevant people in charge of your CIA should all die!"

Ezra Cremo, director of the New York CIA, looked directly at Mr. Parker's sword-like gaze, and after a few seconds, chose to avoid it. .

The top executives of CIA are all idiots. .

(Urine: describes a person with a distinctive personality, personality and temper; sometimes it can be extended to mean powerful, and is often used in a joking tone to express a derogatory meaning.)

He has heard about it a long time ago~

However, he really didn't expect that there were so many CIA internal top secrets hidden behind the Stumbling Block Plan. .

After Claymore thought quickly in silence for a while, he frankly explained to Mr. Parker his intention to ask these secrets.

"There is a vacancy in the Madrid, Spain branch~"

"I want... to try for it!"

Mr. Parker leaned back, thought for a moment in silence, and asked, "Where is the original person in charge of the Madrid branch?"

"..have no idea!"

"Haha~ You don't know anything...how dare you jump into the fire pit?"

"If you want to gain seniority and get a chance to be promoted, you have to be lucky, right?"

"Humph~"

"Did you know that polar bear agents rarely survive after five years of mission in Europe?"

"Do you know that the heads of CIA's overseas branches rarely survive and successfully enter the top management of CIA and become the real controllers?"

Mr. Parker looked at Claymo with caring eyes, put away his teasing smile, and said in a deep voice.

"As far as I know, every person in charge of the CIA's European branch is more or less aware of the Treadstone Plan and other evil plans hidden in the dark~"

"Do you think that after you have been exposed to these dirty plans, you will not disappear or die inexplicably one day in the future?"

"You want to gain rapid promotion through overseas work experience and become a senior executive of CIA..."

"Is there no other way?"

"Do you have to choose this method of seeking death?"

Ezra Cremo put down the wine glass in his hand and shook his head slightly: "I was born near Yellowstone Park. I am a child who came from a small mountain town."

"Except for hard work, luck and the courage to take a gamble, I have reached this point. There is nothing that can support my rise~"

Claymore pulled back his bathrobe with his hands and showed Mr. Parker two gunshot wounds to his chest and abdomen.

"I'm missing half a lung and more than two meters of intestines..."

"They are my last bargaining chip to be transferred to the head of the New York CIA."

"Maybe... you are right~"

"The Madrid branch in Spain is a big fire pit within the CIA that everyone can try to avoid~"

“But for me, it’s an opportunity that I can’t miss!”

Mr. Parker looked at the two gunshot wounds on Claymore's body, raised his eyebrows, shook his head, and sighed.

"You don't always think in your heart...that the person who helped you transfer to New York supervisor is trying to trick you, right?"

Claymore's eyes widened slightly and he remained silent without speaking.

Mr. Parker waited for a few seconds and saw that he remained silent. After acquiescing, he showed an expression that was true and smiled.

"You're wrong about him, Claymore!"

"Is New York a quagmire that those short-sighted people at Langley Headquarters can't avoid?"

"No!"

"New York, in my opinion, is the greatest opportunity in your life, bar none!"

"Your cia can be roughly divided into four main components, namely: Intelligence Division, Management Division, Operations Division and Science and Technology Division."

"Sabotage, espionage, counterintelligence and deployment, conducting covert operations, etc., these are your basic scope of operations."

"Let's put aside the Management Department, Operations Department and Science and Technology Department, and just talk about the Intelligence Department."

"What kind of information do you think is enough for CIA executives to be interested in and take seriously?"

"Do you think there is any place in the world that is more sensitive to international financial intelligence information than Wall Street?"

Mr. Parker raised his hand and pointed in a direction to his side and right, and spoke in a higher voice.

"Wall Street is the gold mine of the intelligence community that you have ignored!"

"As long as there is any disturbance in any country in the world, Wall Street will react sensitively as soon as possible, even faster than your so-called intelligence agency!"

"You have intelligence analysis experts at CIA, but not on Wall Street?"

"Do you think the analysts hired by banks and investment banks are all fools?"

"Do you think the consortium behind Wall Street are idiots who can only get information from you?"

"If this is really the case...will there still be Rothschild? Will there still be J.P. Morgan? Will there still be the Rockefeller Group, the Mellon Group, and the DuPont Group?"

Mr. Parker took a long breath, his voice turned low, and he said to Claymore, who had a somewhat stunned face.

"The monopoly and specialization characteristics of companies owned by major consortiums in the United States are gradually being lost."

"After decades or hundreds of years of fierce competition among all consortiums, the companies and enterprises they control are diverse, making the interests between each other complicated and the boundaries between them very blurred."

"Especially after World War II, starting in the 50s, and for nearly 30 years, major consortiums have been in the United States. Seeing no possibility of continued development and growth, they gradually turned their attention abroad to establish their monopoly internationally. status.."

"I guess you have never thought about the hidden influence brought about by their development strategy of expanding the scope of their economic activities from one country to many countries, right?"

"The multinational companies that are slowly emerging in recent years have achieved rapid development not only relying on the strong financial resources behind them."

"And it is becoming more and more important in economic activities around the world!"

"This has made the large companies and enterprises controlled by major consortiums, almost without exception, become veritable super multinational corporations."

Mr. Parker spread his hands, moved his left and right hands up and down alternately, and continued.

"Intelligence work is just a means of obtaining instant information."

"Any person, organization or institution that obtains important intelligence information is only the first step in formulating a corresponding strategy."

"Let's put aside the political and military aspects and just focus on economic and financial intelligence."

"Do you think CIA intelligence analysts are more professional than Wall Street analysts?"

"You are in New York and have made friends with the major banks and companies on Wall Street. With the accuracy of real-time analysis of financial intelligence, can't you join the internal management of CIA?"

"Are real-time and accurate analysis reports of economic and financial intelligence so ignored within your CIA?"

"Have you ever heard that there is a key person at the top of the CIA who serves as the link between Langley and Wall Street?"

"What if...you were the one to connect Langley to Valkyrie?"

"Have you thought about it?"

"Hiss~" Claymo's eyes widened to their maximum size, and he was deeply shocked by Mr. Parker's words!

Emm. .

CIA needs a key person to establish good communication links with Wall Street?

. .Should it be needed? !

Ezra Cremo felt that if this kind of mutual connection was spread, he would definitely not end well!

Although, the CIA's organization, personnel, funding and activity plans are strictly confidential, and even the US Congress cannot interfere at will.

However, as the New York director of CIA, he did not focus on major tasks such as counterintelligence, but instead actively and covertly contacted Wall Street companies?

this. .It seems so. .Nothing wrong?Bar?

Ezra Claymore fell into entanglement and long-term thinking.

He needs to think about it carefully and thoroughly!

As for Mr. Otis Parker, when he saw that Claymore did not refuse immediately, he knew that this ambitious guy would not be able to resist the temptation.

Mr. Parker took a sip of his drink and his eyes became wandering.

How will David feel when he finds out about this?

Mr. Parker thought that would be very interesting!